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| North Korean missiles aimed at Australia |
| 2012-03-24 |
| A senior US official says a long-range missile which North Korea plans to test next month will for the first time be aimed towards South-East Asia and Australia. The assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, Kurt Campbell, says the US believes the North Korean missile will land in an area between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Previous North Korean rockets have been launched over Japan. Fairfax reported on Saturday that Mr Campbell delivered the message in person to Foreign Minister Bob Carr. "If the missile test proceeds as North Korea has indicated, our judgment is that it will impact in an area roughly between Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines," Mr Campbell was quoted as saying. "We have weighed into each of these countries and asked them to make clear that such a test is provocative and this plan should be discontinued." Nuclear-armed North Korea plans to launch the rocket in April to put a satellite into orbit, a move the US, Australia and other nations see as a pretext for a long-range missile test banned by the United Nations. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 "Shoot straight you BASTARDS!" |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-03-24 19:29 |
| #4 They aimed a freighter- the Pong Su- full of heroin at us a while back, so this is progress, I suppose. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2012-03-24 17:52 |
| #3 Aiming a missile at Australia, huh? A. The NorKs don't have a missile that will get that far. B. With any luck, it will drift off course and land in China. Hilarity would ensue. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-03-24 14:26 |
| #2 Strongly worded memo in 3..2..1.. |
| Posted by: Ackoopmed 2012-03-24 13:33 |
| #1 Some years back my daughter's elementary school class launched rockets in their schoolyard; some of them must have been aimed at North Korea. I figure they had as much chance of hitting it as the NorKs do of hitting Australia. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-03-24 09:33 |