Testing... *tap*tap*bang*
Testing… *tap*tap*bang*
another one for ∏eh n∅∅b
Joe tolja it was comin’... Are ya ready?
The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported a formal confirmation from Pyongyang of the detention and investigation of two female journalists from the United States ...it could also indicate that Pyongyang is not yet indicating how this incident will play out.
...the official also added that the question of whether there are any changes in North Korean-U.S. relations could become a variable influencing the timing of their release.
But wait! There’s more…
North Korean Premier Kim Yong-Il Saturday wrapped up his first visit to China, which came two weeks before Pyongyang’s planned launch of a satellite, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Not so ronery ratery, eh?
China, one of Pyongyang’s few allies, Tuesday expressed concern over the “uncertain factors” facing the Korean peninsula, notably the launch between April 4 and 8 of what the North says is a communications satellite but which Washington and Seo1ul believe is more likely to be a ballistic missile test.
And more...
JAPAN may move land and sea-based interceptor missiles into positions where they could shoot down a North Korean rocket if it threatens to hit its territory, the government said on Wednesday.
and US?
The United States could intercept a North Korean missile launched toward U.S. territory with “high probability," the top U.S. commander for the Pacific region said on Thursday. ...other senior officers stressed American capabilities without revealing intentions.
...and the probability level for being allowed to use that capability?
...The North’s Taepodong-2 has a range that could take it to Alaska.
Oh, well… for a minute I was worried it might could hit Hawaii…
Pyongyang has said it would regard a missile interception as an act of war.
Here we go again. But I thought we were all gonna smoke crack drink coke and sing together?
Army General Walter Sharp, commander of U.S. Forces in Korea, said the missile threat is serious because North Korea tested a nuclear bomb in 2006. Proliferation is also a worry, because the government of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il sells missiles to support itself, he said.
A successful Taepodong-2 launch would go a long way toward “helping him proliferate that to other countries around the world and to be able to get cash back in order to put it back into regime survival,” Sharp told the panel.
Well - that certainly is a plateful. More than the Korean’s have…
North Korea, which suffers from chronic food shortages [20 percent short ...putting 8.7 million people or nearly 40 percent of the population in urgent need of food assistance [in 10/09]] and where some people are believed to be on the brink of starvation, has rejected food aid from the United States, the U.S. State Department said.
...The current timing is especially sensitive, coming during joint military exercises by U.S. and South Korean troops which the North says are preparations for invasion.
... Neighbouring China, the one major country the North considers an ally, does provide aid but does not publicise any details.
So how’s that new Smart Diplomacy comin’ along, n∅∅b?
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