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MowCowWhoHow III

(2,103 posts)
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 10:24 AM Jan 2016

U.S. sees possible North Korea space launch in near future – U.S. official

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has seen increased activity around a North Korea site suggesting movement of components and propellant to be able to conduct a space launch in the near future, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday.“Our concern though is that they do a space-launch but really it’s the same technology to develop ICBMs,” the official said, referring to inter-continental ballistic missiles.

The official added such a launch could happen within a couple of weeks.

Read more: http://www.euronews.com/newswires/3137145-us-sees-possible-north-korea-space-launch-in-near-future-us-official/

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pampango

(24,692 posts)
2. If it is a manned space launch, will the astronaut have anything to eat?
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 10:55 AM
Jan 2016

Building sophisticated missiles and bombs does not seem to be North Koreans problem. Growing food is.

drm604

(16,230 posts)
5. That government doesn't even have a right to exist.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 04:27 PM
Jan 2016

They are unelected, do not represent their people, and keep their people in poverty and ignorance.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
7. I disagree. Our government does not represent all our people and keeps them in ignorance.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:05 PM
Jan 2016

I realize it's not suppose to be that way but until we clean up our act we have no right to tell anybody what to do.

drm604

(16,230 posts)
8. Are you seriously suggesting that the current problems with our government are anything like NK's?
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:42 PM
Jan 2016

I don't even know how to respond to that.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
9. Not as severe but just as true. With the US's past record for the past 15 years, it has no right..
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 06:45 PM
Jan 2016

...to tell anybody anything.

gvstn

(2,805 posts)
10. Exactly.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 07:27 PM
Jan 2016

After destroying our reputation as a thousand points of light by torturing people. Do you think Dick Cheney wouldn't spend all our Nation's wealth on him and his family while watching other people starve to death building empty cities that fit his liking?

Of course he would. He is just jealous of Kim Jong-un.

EX500rider

(10,532 posts)
6. Actually they don't...they are under UN sanctions.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 04:53 PM
Jan 2016
UN Security Council Resolutions on North Korea

The United Nations Security Council has adopted four major resolutions since 2006 that impose and strengthen sanctions on North Korea for continuing to develop its nuclear weapons program and call on Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear program “in a complete, verifiable, and irreversible manner" and refrain from ballistic missile tests. The first two resolutions were passed shortly after North Korean nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009. The third came a month after North Korea successfully launched a satellite in December 2012. North Korea is prohibited from such launches under previous UN Security Council Resolutions because the technology in a satellite launch vehicle has potential dual use applications to ballistic missile development. The fourth was passed after North Korea’s most recent nuclear test in February 2013. The resolutions since 2009 furnished UN member states with interdiction authority, calling upon states to inspect North Korean cargo within their territory, and subsequently seize and dispose of goods prohibited by UNSC Resolutions.

All four resolutions were passed unanimously by the Security Council under Chapter VII, Article 41 of the United Nations Charter. While legally binding, states are prohibited from using force to carry out the obligations of the resolutions. The resolutions call upon North Korea to rejoin the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which it acceded to in 1985 but withdrew from in 2003 after U.S. allegations that the country was pursuing an illegal uranium enrichment program. The Security Council also has called for North Korea to return to negotiations in the Six-Party Talks, which include South Korea, North Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the United States. The talks began in 2003 and aim to peacefully dismantle North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Little progress was made until September 2005, when the six parties achieved a breakthrough and issued a joint statement on agreed steps for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Pursuant to the joint statement, in February 2007 negotiators reached an agreement with North Korea to shut down its nuclear program in exchange for humanitarian aid. Progress on this front broke down, however, in 2009 when North Korea completely withdrew from the talks in response to international condemnation of its attempt to launch a satellite in April 2009.


https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/UN-Security-Council-Resolutions-on-North-Korea
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