North Korea shows off new missile at military parade
Published April 15, 2012
Associated Press
April 15: 2012: North Korean tanks take part in a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate 100 years since the birth of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung. (AP)
PYONGYANG, North Korea North Korea on Sunday unveiled what appeared to be a new missile at a military parade in Pyongyang.
The missile, displayed during celebrations for the centennial of the birth of late North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, appears to add to an arsenal that has raised international worries heightened by the country's simultaneous development of nuclear weapons.
The celebrations come two days after North Korea fired a rocket widely viewed abroad as a provocative test of missile technology. The rocket failed about a minute after liftoff.
Military analysts in Japan and South Korea said the missile on display Sunday appeared to be something newer -- and possibly bigger -- than what had previously been displayed.
But they said further examination would be required to tell whether it was an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, that North Korea has reportedly had in the works for quite some time.
A number of North Koreans at the parade said it was the first time they had seen the new missile. The exact design could not immediately be confirmed by military officials.
"It looked like more than a mock-up, and like it could be intended as an ICBM, but it is very hard to tell at this point," said Isaku Okabe, a private Japanese military specialist.
Sohn Young-hwan, a South Korean rocket scientist who heads the privately funded Institute of Technology and Management Analysis in Seoul, said the missile was possibly an intermediate-range ballistic missile, but not an ICBM.
Analysts have speculated for months that North Korea is working on a rocket that is bigger and stronger than the Unha-3 that failed Friday.
The new missile it is supposedly working on is rumored to have bigger boosters that give it a maximum range of more than 6,200 miles. That would theoretically make it capable of reaching the continental U.S., though as Friday's failure demonstrated, North Korea has a long way to go before it can mount an effective ICBM attack.
Nick Hansen, of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, wrote on the website 38 North that satellite imagery and photos taken by journalists allowed to visit North Korea's new launch site back up the claim that the North has a bigger missile in mind because the gantry used on Friday is much bigger than it needed to be for the Unha-3 rocket.
North Korea has used military parades to reveal its missiles before.
A parade in 2010 provided the world with its first look at a road-mobile ballistic missile with a range estimated at 1,860-2,485 miles. Such missiles are of particular concern because they are harder to locate and destroy than missiles that are launched from fixed locations, like the one Friday.
The 4,000-kilometer range would put U.S. bases in Guam, South Korea and Japan within its sights.
-- Edited by Uke on Saturday 14th of April 2012 11:52:12 PM
Snippy said
8:49 AM, 04/15/12
Wonder where they're buying vacuum tubes?
Pipes FC said
12:05 PM, 04/15/12
Everyday another news story about how scary N Korea is......yawn. This is a place that can't even send its own citizens to the world cup, but somehow they are in the news everyday. Fuck, even I can shot a rocket into the ocean.
Cy Valley said
12:24 PM, 04/15/12
Pipes Builds Missile, Seeks Adoration and World Domination
Troll said
2:15 PM, 04/15/12
Pipes FC said
2:31 PM, 04/15/12
Cy Valley wrote:
Pipes Builds Missile, Seeks Adoration and World Domination
Just sayin, why are we scared of country that supposedly run by a teenager. That poor kid is probably scared to death someone in his own government is going to cap his ass and all he wants to do is eat cheeseburgers.
Uke said
4:32 PM, 04/15/12
Love the hair kid! You go gir... Kim! Un!
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives his first public speech in Pyongyang. Source: AP Photo/KRT via AP video
Bloomberg News
North Koreas Kim Says His Regime Cant Be Blackmailed
By Sangwon Yoon on April 15, 2012
North Korea wont be bullied by its nuclear-armed enemies, third-generation dictator Kim Jong Un said in his first public address at a military parade as South Korea warned that his regime may conduct an atomic test.
Dressed in a dark Mao suit and standing on a podium high above Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang yesterday, the new leader said, the days of enemies threatening and blackmailing us with nuclear weapons are forever over. Goose-stepping soldiers, mobile rocket launchers and tanks rumbled through the streets below in a celebration broadcast on state television.
North Koreas humiliation from a long-range rocket that disintegrated within minutes of liftoff two days earlier increases the chance of Kim ordering an atomic test to regain face, South Korean Deputy Defense Minister Lim Kwan Bin said on April 13. The launch also ended a U.S. food-aid deal.
Kim is very aware of how powerful the military is and knows his only strategy is to keep selling the military-first policy, said Koh Yu Hwan, a professor of North Korean studies at Seouls Dongguk University. Stability is what the young Kim needs most and he needs the full support of the military.
The parade was broadcast on North Korean state television and held to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Kims late grandfather, state founder Kim Il Sung. The younger Kim is thought to be less than 30 years old and assumed power after his father, Kim Jong Il, died of a heart attack on Dec. 17.
Uke said
4:35 PM, 04/15/12
Forget that launch. It was planned ta fail. No big deal... We got more! And we'll use 'em, if anybody tries ta push us around!
Ballistic Missile
It also featured what appeared to be a new, larger ballistic missile, said Baek Seung Joo, who studies Pyongyangs military at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul. South Koreas Defense Ministry was unable to comment on the design or whether it was a real missile.
North Korea, which technically remains at war with the South since their 1950-53 conflict ended without a peace treaty, has 1.2 million people in its armed forces and has twice detonated an atomic device, in 2006 and 2009.
The peoples army has conducted guerrilla warfare, regular combat and psychological warfare, said Kim, who shuffled his feet as he read the speech from notes. We have grown into a powerful military, equipped with our own means of defense and attack in any modern war.
He didnt mention the rocket launch or his regimes atomic weapons program during the speech, which lasted 20 minutes. While North Korea said the launch was intended to put a satellite into orbit, the U.S. said it violated international commitments and scrapped the February plan to provide 240,000 tons of food aid.
Starving People
The South Korean Defense Ministry said last weeks rocket launch may have cost $800 million, equivalent to a years worth of food for the Norths 24 million people. As many as 1 million people starved to death during the 1990s, according to estimates from Marcus Noland and Stephan Haggard of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C.
The Norths parliamentary body ruled to allocate 15.8 percent of the total state budgetary expenditure for national defense this year, the official Korean Central News Agency said on April 14, citing Finance Minister Choe Kwang Jin.
Kim, the third son of Kim Jong Il, inherited an economy a 40th the size of South Koreas. His father also left behind the goal of making North Korea a strong and prosperous nation by 2012.
Kim Jong Un, who formally assumed the regimes top political and military posts last week, acknowledged past economic difficulties.
Splendor of Socialism
The Workers Party firmly determines that the people, who suffered much hardship, should enjoy the wealth and splendor of socialism and never again tighten their belts, he said.
Soldiers massed in formation filled the square, while citizens watched from the periphery, waving red and pink pompoms. Celebrations continued into the night, with fireworks and a laser show lighting the skies over the capital.
New homes were built for 300 farming families and a new hydroelectric power plant opened last week in the northwestern province of Jagang, according to KCNA reports on the countrys preparations for the Kim Il Sung anniversary.
The words Our eternal leader Comrade Kim Il Sung were also carved 37 meters high into a rock face near Gaeseong, where North Korea operates a joint economic zone with South Korea.
Kim Jong Un, who was schooled in Switzerland, styles his hair and mannerisms like his grandfather. He appeared more charismatic in his speech yesterday than his father, who shunned national addresses, according to Kim Hyung Suk, the spokesman for South Koreas Unification Ministry.
Kim is taking after his charismatic grandfather, the family patriarch, in trying to engage the people more openly, said Kim Young Yoon, senior research fellow at the Korea Institute of National Unification in Seoul.
Uke said
10:58 PM, 04/26/17
Kim ain't no kid no more. he's actually 33, but he acts like a spoiled-ass teenager. Trump ain't worried about him. Nope. But starting a war with North Korea could lead to bigger problems. Like China jumping in to defend their adopted 'cousins' to the south.
Trump don't really know how bad this is, or how fast it might happen!
Only Canuckistanians ove ice hockey! Nobody else... Well maybe tRoLL (that rat bastard). But he's the olny member of bj.com. who ackshully understand ice hockey. 'Cept for TW5-K, and maybe the other Canuckistanian, what'sisname... steamer! Yep him!
-- Edited by Uke on Thursday 27th of April 2017 04:23:41 PM
Thunderwagon5000 said
6:57 AM, 04/29/17
Uke wrote:
Only Canuckistanians ove ice hockey! Nobody else... Well maybe tRoLL (that rat bastard). But he's the olny member of bj.com. who ackshully understand ice hockey. 'Cept for TW5-K, and maybe the other Canuckistanian, what'sisname... steamer! Yep him!
-- Edited by Uke on Thursday 27th of April 2017 04:23:41 PM
However, this time Kim (The "haircut Kid") may heve bitten off more'n he knows. Which pissed of Trump. Uh-oh Kim! You shoulda NOT shot that last missile...
Kim is ready. Just ask him! He's aiming right at Donnie. In fact he's watching Trump right now through his German made binoculars, that have very special super powers. Yep! Watch your fat ass Donnie you pig! Pretty hard ta miss the fat pig...
Go get 'im Kim! Anything we can do?
-- Edited by Uke on Tuesday 8th of August 2017 07:44:08 PM
North Korea shows off new missile at military parade
Published April 15, 2012
Associated Press
April 15: 2012: North Korean tanks take part in a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate 100 years since the birth of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung. (AP)
PYONGYANG, North Korea North Korea on Sunday unveiled what appeared to be a new missile at a military parade in Pyongyang.
The missile, displayed during celebrations for the centennial of the birth of late North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, appears to add to an arsenal that has raised international worries heightened by the country's simultaneous development of nuclear weapons.
The celebrations come two days after North Korea fired a rocket widely viewed abroad as a provocative test of missile technology. The rocket failed about a minute after liftoff.
Military analysts in Japan and South Korea said the missile on display Sunday appeared to be something newer -- and possibly bigger -- than what had previously been displayed.
But they said further examination would be required to tell whether it was an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, that North Korea has reportedly had in the works for quite some time.
A number of North Koreans at the parade said it was the first time they had seen the new missile. The exact design could not immediately be confirmed by military officials.
"It looked like more than a mock-up, and like it could be intended as an ICBM, but it is very hard to tell at this point," said Isaku Okabe, a private Japanese military specialist.
Sohn Young-hwan, a South Korean rocket scientist who heads the privately funded Institute of Technology and Management Analysis in Seoul, said the missile was possibly an intermediate-range ballistic missile, but not an ICBM.
Analysts have speculated for months that North Korea is working on a rocket that is bigger and stronger than the Unha-3 that failed Friday.
The new missile it is supposedly working on is rumored to have bigger boosters that give it a maximum range of more than 6,200 miles. That would theoretically make it capable of reaching the continental U.S., though as Friday's failure demonstrated, North Korea has a long way to go before it can mount an effective ICBM attack.
Nick Hansen, of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, wrote on the website 38 North that satellite imagery and photos taken by journalists allowed to visit North Korea's new launch site back up the claim that the North has a bigger missile in mind because the gantry used on Friday is much bigger than it needed to be for the Unha-3 rocket.
North Korea has used military parades to reveal its missiles before.
A parade in 2010 provided the world with its first look at a road-mobile ballistic missile with a range estimated at 1,860-2,485 miles. Such missiles are of particular concern because they are harder to locate and destroy than missiles that are launched from fixed locations, like the one Friday.
The 4,000-kilometer range would put U.S. bases in Guam, South Korea and Japan within its sights.
-- Edited by Uke on Saturday 14th of April 2012 11:52:12 PM
Just sayin, why are we scared of country that supposedly run by a teenager. That poor kid is probably scared to death someone in his own government is going to cap his ass and all he wants to do is eat cheeseburgers.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives his first public speech in Pyongyang. Source: AP Photo/KRT via AP video
Bloomberg News
North Koreas Kim Says His Regime Cant Be Blackmailed
Ballistic Missile
It also featured what appeared to be a new, larger ballistic missile, said Baek Seung Joo, who studies Pyongyangs military at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul. South Koreas Defense Ministry was unable to comment on the design or whether it was a real missile.
North Korea, which technically remains at war with the South since their 1950-53 conflict ended without a peace treaty, has 1.2 million people in its armed forces and has twice detonated an atomic device, in 2006 and 2009.
The peoples army has conducted guerrilla warfare, regular combat and psychological warfare, said Kim, who shuffled his feet as he read the speech from notes. We have grown into a powerful military, equipped with our own means of defense and attack in any modern war.
He didnt mention the rocket launch or his regimes atomic weapons program during the speech, which lasted 20 minutes. While North Korea said the launch was intended to put a satellite into orbit, the U.S. said it violated international commitments and scrapped the February plan to provide 240,000 tons of food aid.
Starving People
The South Korean Defense Ministry said last weeks rocket launch may have cost $800 million, equivalent to a years worth of food for the Norths 24 million people. As many as 1 million people starved to death during the 1990s, according to estimates from Marcus Noland and Stephan Haggard of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C.
The Norths parliamentary body ruled to allocate 15.8 percent of the total state budgetary expenditure for national defense this year, the official Korean Central News Agency said on April 14, citing Finance Minister Choe Kwang Jin.
Kim, the third son of Kim Jong Il, inherited an economy a 40th the size of South Koreas. His father also left behind the goal of making North Korea a strong and prosperous nation by 2012.
Kim Jong Un, who formally assumed the regimes top political and military posts last week, acknowledged past economic difficulties.
Splendor of Socialism
The Workers Party firmly determines that the people, who suffered much hardship, should enjoy the wealth and splendor of socialism and never again tighten their belts, he said.
Soldiers massed in formation filled the square, while citizens watched from the periphery, waving red and pink pompoms. Celebrations continued into the night, with fireworks and a laser show lighting the skies over the capital.
New homes were built for 300 farming families and a new hydroelectric power plant opened last week in the northwestern province of Jagang, according to KCNA reports on the countrys preparations for the Kim Il Sung anniversary.
The words Our eternal leader Comrade Kim Il Sung were also carved 37 meters high into a rock face near Gaeseong, where North Korea operates a joint economic zone with South Korea.
Kim Jong Un, who was schooled in Switzerland, styles his hair and mannerisms like his grandfather. He appeared more charismatic in his speech yesterday than his father, who shunned national addresses, according to Kim Hyung Suk, the spokesman for South Koreas Unification Ministry.
Kim is taking after his charismatic grandfather, the family patriarch, in trying to engage the people more openly, said Kim Young Yoon, senior research fellow at the Korea Institute of National Unification in Seoul.
Kim ain't no kid no more. he's actually 33, but he acts like a spoiled-ass teenager. Trump ain't worried about him. Nope. But starting a war with North Korea could lead to bigger problems. Like China jumping in to defend their adopted 'cousins' to the south.
Trump don't really know how bad this is, or how fast it might happen!
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/25/politics/trump-senators-north-korea-briefing/index.html
The solution of course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqBrw3rQvKo
-- Edited by Uke on Wednesday 26th of April 2017 11:01:55 PM
Uke is so negative tu much of the time.
Probly has no skates or hockey knowledge.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/south-koreans-cheer-north-korean-women-ice-hockey-team-gangneung-world-championship-a7662616.html
Only Canuckistanians ove ice hockey! Nobody else... Well maybe tRoLL (that rat bastard). But he's the olny member of bj.com. who ackshully understand ice hockey. 'Cept for TW5-K, and maybe the other Canuckistanian, what'sisname... steamer! Yep him!
-- Edited by Uke on Thursday 27th of April 2017 04:23:41 PM
Uke is so negative tu much of the time.
Probly has no skates or hockey knowledge.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/south-koreans-cheer-north-korean-women-ice-hockey-team-gangneung-world-championship-a7662616.html
However, this time Kim (The "haircut Kid") may heve bitten off more'n he knows. Which pissed of Trump. Uh-oh Kim! You shoulda NOT shot that last missile...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/08/north-korea-is-fast-approaching-trumps-red-line/?utm_term=.4400d58f1042
He'll act better after we nuke sumbuddy.
Kim is ready. Just ask him! He's aiming right at Donnie. In fact he's watching Trump right now through his German made binoculars, that have very special super powers. Yep! Watch your fat ass Donnie you pig! Pretty hard ta miss the fat pig...
Go get 'im Kim! Anything we can do?
-- Edited by Uke on Tuesday 8th of August 2017 07:44:08 PM