US official: North Korea fires a possible ballistic missile

[bathroommonkey76]

Source: CNN

(CNN)North Korea fired a projectile into the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, on Wednesday morning, US and South Korean officials said.

The United States believes the projectile was likely a ballistic missile, according to a US official. It is one of several the country has test-fired in recent months.

The projectile was launched at 6:42 a.m. Seoul time, from a site in the vicinity of Sinpo, South Hamgyong Province, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said. It flew a distance of around 60 kilometers, South Korean officials said.

The North Koreans use Sinpo shipyard for their submarine activity, and US satellites have observed increased activity there in recent days, a second US official said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/04/asia/north-korea-projectile/

[milestogo]

1. Is that enough to provoke our lunatic president?

[bathroommonkey76]

2. Tillerson doesn't have time to comment about this BS.

Link to tweet

[Jonny Appleseed]

3. _(ツ)_/

"I'm a oil executive. I should be running the department of energy (the one that Rick Perry thought existed)."

[harun]

13. Rex "time for a nap" Tillerson

[IronLionZion]

4. Why? Are the president's poll numbers in need of some help?

[Rustyeye77]

5. Sooner rather than later, take them out.

I know it's blasphemy, but the longer the US waits the harder it will be.

[HoneyBadger]

6. If their ballistic missiles are going 60km, hitting the US is unlikely

[Thor_MN]

7. I commute 50% further than that daily.

If they have to get closer than my drive to and from work to land a missile there isn't really a threat there.

In three months, I'm going to ride on a bicycle, 4 times further in two days than that missile flew. I'm also a lot more likely to get to my actual target.

[Voltaire2]

8. You do understand that the population of Seoul

would suffer devastating casualties in any renewed war with North Korea, right?

[HoneyBadger]

9. Of course

And vice versa

[mahina]

12. +1000

[Rustyeye77]

10. Well, we can wait until they get better.

It will be way easier now.

[mahina]

11. How do you foresee that proceeding please? I've spoken to senior military folks who shared

Their summary that short of an internal change, any military action on North Korea would result in an unthinkable scale of casualties in both South Korea and Japan, including casualties of our own troops on our bases in both countries.

And then the war starts.

I'm curious how you would engage in 'taking them out'. I know that sounds snarky with the ' ' but I don't mean it that way. I'm genuinely curious about how you would execute that plan to a successful outcome that doesn't result in millions of dead people.

Mahalo.

[harun]

14. And if they take South Korea, Japan and us out with them?

No thanks.

[EX500rider]

15. How exactly would they do that?

They have at the most several crude atomic devices, none which will fit in a missile cone yet.....or survive take off and re-entry.
They have at least a few more years for that.