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Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by tristar
North Korea will try and fail. There is simply no way they can do it. The crazy old man might try it in his old age, but the fact is that technology has long since made the nuclear missile obsolete. The only ways to nuclear bomb an enemy in the modern era is through espionage. There simple is no longer any viability in the missile. unless your enemy has no means to stop it.
Originally posted by whatcheek
I believe N Korea is going to start a war on June 24 2009.
I see Saturn approaching N Korea's natal sun and being exactly conjunct on June 24.
Saturn can mean the US and UN restricting N Korea's sun. But also N Korea's Saturn is retaliating by opposing the current Chiron - Jupiter - Neptune conjunction in the sky. This pretty much sums up today's situation. But will it lead to war?
Looking at the God of War, Mars, it's conjunct Venus in the sky and in a smooth trine to N Korea's natal sun. That means N Korea will receive military support from someone.
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Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by tristar
North Korea will try and fail. There is simply no way they can do it. The crazy old man might try it in his old age, but the fact is that technology has long since made the nuclear missile obsolete. The only ways to nuclear bomb an enemy in the modern era is through espionage. There simple is no longer any viability in the missile. unless your enemy has no means to stop it.
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama was set on Tuesday to meet with the leader of South Korea, who is seeking security guarantees as a standoff escalates with nuclear-armed North Korea.
The summit comes a day after the latest show of defiance by North Korea, which said that some 100,000 people rallied to denounce a tightening of UN sanctions on the hardline communist state for testing a nuclear bomb.
South Korean President Lee Myung Bak has indicated that he wants Mr Obama, who has set a goal of abolishing nuclear weapons, to reiterate that South Korea is under the US security umbrella.
Secretary of Defence Robert Gates told Mr Lee in a meeting on Monday that the United States was committed to defend South Korea 'through all necessary means, including the nuclear umbrella,' Mr Lee's office said in a statement. The United States stations some 28,500 troops in South Korea and more than 40,000 more in nearby Japan, which has tense relations with Pyongyang.
President Lee, a conservative businessman, took over last year and - delighting many in Washington - reversed a decade-long 'sunshine policy' under which South Korea put few restrictions on aid to the impoverished
North Korea has finished preparatory work at a new launch pad for long-range missiles on its northwest coast, a report says.
Chosun Ilbo newspaper on Tuesday quoted a government source as saying the launch structure has been installed and a hangar has been completed at the Dongchang-ri launch site.
"Large girders have recently been installed and the two or three months of preparatory work at the launch pad have been completed," the source told the daily.
"However, no radar has yet been set up and no missile has been brought to the launch pad. A launch is not imminent."
The paper said satellite photos showed the structure to be about 50 metres high, meaning it would be capable of firing an intercontinental ballistic missile measuring 40 metres or longer.
The North's three previous long-range missile launches were from Musudan-ri on the east coast, where the paper said the launch structure is 32 metres high.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will order the Navy to hail and request permission to inspect North Korean ships at sea suspected of carrying arms or nuclear technology, but will not board them by force, senior administration officials said Monday.
The new effort to intercept North Korean ships, and track them to their next port, where Washington will press for the inspections they refused at sea, is part of what the officials described as “vigorous enforcement” of the United Nations Security Council resolution approved Friday.
The planned American action stops just short of the forced inspections that North Korea has said that it would regard as an act of war. Still, the administration’s plans, if fully executed, would amount to the most confrontational approach taken by the United States in dealing with North Korea in years, and carries a risk of escalating tensions at a time when North Korea has been carrying out missile and nuclear tests.