Tension rises over North Korea

Tension rises over North Korea

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The Japanese government announced shortly after noon on Saturday that North Korea's planned rocket launch appeared to have gone ahead, only to withdraw the announcement minutes later.

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I think this news is a little stale but interesting none the less.

These comments are worrying.

At 8:40, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary for Crisis Management Tetsuro Ito entered the prime minister's office, followed by Director of Cabinet Intelligence Hideshi Mitani at 8:55 a.m. At 9 a.m. Konoike went into an office saying, "Be prepared and have no regrets."

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Japan is ready to shoot down the missile IF NECESSARY. The problem is that if they have to rely on the Patriot system, something is coming down, and probably in big pieces. The comments make sense, they DO need to be prepared, and if people get hurt by them having to take action, they shouldn't have regrets. It may come down to a case of a few people getting hurt as opposed to a lot of people getting hurt.

What? It's about 4:42AM in Japan right now... what are they talking about?

Anyway, please... NO WAR except if North Korea starts it and actually kill people.

And yes, Japan will ONLY (hopefully) shoot it down if it appears to land on Japan territory.

If the missile was headed somewhere else and they start a war over this, there will be hell to pay.

[edit on 4-4-2009 by Vitchilo]

So when is this missle being launched?
TODAY!? I thought it was meant to be around midday their time, so in around another 8 hours from this post!?

No no. They announced it was launched this morning and then suddenly recalled that warning. Unusual??

Originally posted by komp_uk
No no. They announced it was launched this morning and then suddenly recalled that warning. Unusual??

Yeah just a little?!>!>!>!?!?!?

So it was Japan who announced it launched and then recalled it? Perhaps another UFO on radar disamring yet another nuke?

Originally posted by kingdogol

Originally posted by komp_uk
No no. They announced it was launched this morning and then suddenly recalled that warning. Unusual??

Yeah just a little?!>!>!>!?!?!?

So it was Japan who announced it launched and then recalled it? Perhaps another UFO on radar disamring yet another nuke?

That would not be the first time its been said.

So that would indicate DPRK do have a nuke of some sort if thats the case?

Originally posted by komp_uk
So that would indicate DPRK do have a nuke of some sort if thats the case?

They've got more than nukes man, ever seen xXx? Many movies are so close to reality and the majority of people have no idea....Funny thing is the last couple of days I was feeling like it was the end, so much negative energy, wouldn't suprise me in the least if another fleet of our outerspace budies rocked up to once again stop us from playing 'wargames' with each other!

Japan had a radar failure when they announced that the missile launched. It happens. The US several times has been watching a launch and thought it was going on when it wasn't. There are sat photos of the pad from after they thought they launched that show a net over the missile, and none of the Aegis ships saw anything on radar.