North Korea attempts but fails to launch missile: South Korea

[jpak]

Source: reuters

North Korea attempted to launch a missile on Sunday near Sinpo, on its east coast, but it is believed to have failed, South Korea's military said.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-missile-idUSKBN17H0NL

[Rustyeye77]

1. Apparently they don't take a hint.

[Kennah]

2. Dude is gonna piss someone off

[LittleBlue]

3. Give him the death he so dearly desires

Might as well pack SK with as many anti-missile units as we can manufacture and get it over with now. We wait until he has a nuke that can hit Tokyo or Seattle, then it's too late.

[Rustyeye77]

5. I'm in total agreement.

Of course there are many here who would give you an argument.

[EX500rider]

7. Im thinking....

......a B-2 flies over on a dark night at 50,000ft and drops the biggest bomb it can carry on the palace.....woops, who knows what happened, maybe it was a gas leak?

[moonscape]

9. Reasons not to do that:

1. His successor could be much worse
2. Chaos with all those nukes scattered about
3. Loyal military likely instructed (and are brain-washed loyal) to hit SK

NK is prepared for every contingency.

[EX500rider]

10. Hard to believe they could find somebody worse...

....and with just a single explosion they would think it was a internal assassination perhaps...
Most of the upper caste would breathe a sigh of relief I imagine....now they aren't next to be killed by anti aircraft gun.

[moonscape]

12. Well, historically we've thought a lot of leaders

couldn't be worse, taken them out, and lived to regret it.

Word is that he is not irrational and crazy - incredibly cruel, but not crazy, and perhaps more stable than our own head of state. He believes, with justification, that if he weren't armed to the gills we would take him out, and want nothing more than unification.

Michael Morell says the N Koreans are uniformly loyal to Kim, they are so brainwashed, and the military will carry out whatever the contingency plans are.

[dalton99a]

23. The most likely scenario is suicide assassination by someone seeking revenge

He has made a lot of enemies among the old guard

[Yorkist]

15. "Prepared for every contingency"......

........is a bit of a stretch.

The problem with your rationale, IMO, is that in 5 years all the same arguments will be made, but 4-8 rudimentary devices now will be how many by then ?

This is what the UN should be for. By now, due to dicking around with WMD, NK must have breached enough red lines - the non proliferation treaty for a start - to have put intervention at least on the agenda. I daresay NK were never a signatory anyway, but that's hardly the point.

[Leghorn21]

4. "Hold my chocolate cake - " eom

[EarthFirst]

6. I see what you did there... nt

[elmac]

8. Failure to Launch

Not to worry Kim Jong-un, there are medications you can take to help with that problem.

[Bonhomme Richard]

11. All for show...nothing more

North Korea defies Trump and does launch..launch is failure...everyone save's face.
No drama and no one gets killed. Diplomacy at work and the world gets played.

[murielm99]

22. I wonder about Pence being over there right now.

He is supposed to do the president', while trump makes America great again.

His presence in SK is something of a deterrent. Maybe someone around trump has half a brain. Maybe someone in the military planted the idea that Pence should go to SK at this particular time.

[George II]

13. Hmmm, that's the rumor going around about trump, too - "failure to launch"!

On the other hand, humanitarily speaking, I hope a half dozen North Korean generals don't get wasted.

[christx30]

14. I wonder how many family members of

North Korean scientists are being executed tonight?

[Yorkist]

16. Yes, fair point.

What's the odds, I wonder, that this was sabotage by a Chinese agent ?

[bora13]

17. sad

so sad. this will only bring out more
belligerence in response from either one of the players.
failure hurts these types in the worst way.

[FreepFryer]

18. It's actually an excellent strategy that lets them appear to act & puts Trump on the defensive.

With the added benefit of letting them blame an internal enemy for sabotage / collusion with the US.

[FreepFryer]

19. And they can follow this up with another launch a week from now, out from under immediate threat.

[nitpicker]

20. Link to BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39612095

[retrowire]

21. if they think they can fight a war

they better make sure every missile launches as intended.

[heaven05]

24. lot of war mongers

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in this thread, pretty disgusting to tell the truth. The trump regime drops one big turd on Afghanistan and all the sudden it's gung-ho to bomb the shit out of NK.

Why is it that quiet diplomacy keep this NK madman in check for 8 years and when the small gonad boy-potus gets his hand on the button all hell breaking loose is possible any fucking day now? People here just do not know what the hell of war looks and smells like. The war mongers in this thread need to STFU about dropping bombs.

Just like the war, which was wanted, created by the other boy-potus and his cheney led regime to give the industrialists and the war machine CEO's mo' money almost immediately, when a quiet insertion of a squad of SEALS, RANGERS, more clandestine units, going in and wiping the leader off the map will do. And is more than possible of being a success. WAR! WAR! WAR! From the genocide of the native-americans, slavery and violent abuse of the AA, chinese railroad builders, to now. KILL! KILL! KILL! ABUSE ! ABUSE! Anyone who stands in the way of Manifest Destiny of the superior white ameriKKKan race.

This is the seed of destruction that has been sown by ameriKKKan imperialism and is growing into an unstoppable force. Presidency, Congress, Supreme Court, all in the hands of toxic demons growing out of control. And we are not able to stop them...... Summer of discontent upcoming.