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2017-09-15 China-Japan-Koreas

North Korea fires another missile, less than 2 weeks after nuclear bomb test

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 This location was undetected until the launch. Pongyang is a ghost town as residents were ordered to evac in April. He is still winning the psychological warefare aspect of this situation.

Posted by Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-09-15 03:57|| 2017-09-15 03:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Could have been a mobile launcher. Hard to keep tabs on.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-09-15 08:35|| 2017-09-15 08:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes, a mobile transporter erector launcher (TEL) truck. Those are the ones imported from China due to the fact the NORKS do not have the technology to produce them.

Intercontinental ballistic missiles on the other hand......

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-15 08:44|| 2017-09-15 08:44|| Front Page Top

#4 And we just watch. We have given up on thumping our chests even.

Posted by gorb 2017-09-15 09:55|| 2017-09-15 09:55|| Front Page Top

#5 A few days back, I read that NORK was sitting on a pile of Bitcoins.

The day before yesterday, I read that China, in keeping with UN Sanctions™, had announced that its national bank would no longer deal in bitcoins.

Yesterday, NORK launches another missile, something I would take as a genuine swipe at the face of the UN and, more importantly, China.

China appears to have lost control over Li'l Kim, and I believe will not accept this latest evolution of their Loose Cannon. It's been fun to use NORK to troll the U.S., but crossing "Loss of Face" behavioral boundaries is not the Asiatic way.

I anticipate a new NORK leader more to the liking of China in short order.

Or, maybe not.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-09-15 10:29|| 2017-09-15 10:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Well Gorb, you know what's said about wrestling pigs.

The silence from us should tell them something, mostly that we're too busy to waste time talking...

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-09-15 10:54|| 2017-09-15 10:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Chinese have to be made aware it's going to hurt them if this continues. Slapping a 100 percent tariff on computers imported from China would be a good start. Dunno if our leaders have the will for that.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-09-15 10:57|| 2017-09-15 10:57|| Front Page Top

#8 If China were tired of their BS, they'd stop watering down the sanctions.

Posted by gorb 2017-09-15 11:21|| 2017-09-15 11:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Small, reluctant, incremental steps, oftentimes sideways. Behold the Chinese 'long-game.'

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-15 11:24|| 2017-09-15 11:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Dunno if our leaders have the will for that.

Sorry Abu, I DO know...........they don't.

Posted by AlanC 2017-09-15 18:22|| 2017-09-15 18:22|| Front Page Top

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