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Posted (Van Santos) in News on May-25-2009

As if setting off a Nuke wasn’t enough, North Korea also tested a short-range missile:

“A single ground-to-air missile with a range of 130 km (81 miles) was fired from Musudan-ri, Hwadae County,” it quoted a diplomatic source as saying.

Musudan-ri on the northeast coast is the North’s major missile launch site. The North fired a long-range Taepodong-2 rocket from there on April 5.

Again, this seems like an odd time.  The only thing I can figure is this happens to coincide with the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S.  Like their last major test, could it be they are trying to send a signal to the U.S. for some reason?

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Comments:
Wandering Coyote on May 25th, 2009 at 10:31 am #

What ticks me off about this is the priorities. Starving people left right and centre, but lets pour billions of bucks we don’t have into a nuclear program so we can piss with the best of them. Same with Pakistan, where they still have polio because they don’t vaccinate kids – and still they have money to pour into nuclear programs. Then they expect international aid when they have a devastating earth quake. Jesus!

Sorry. Rant over.

Van Santos on May 25th, 2009 at 6:35 pm #

You and I are on exactly the same page.

I had a friend that has a lot of knowledge of N.K. and states that the news/press/programs we see about N.K. and the starving isn’t even the tip of the truth.

I feel so badly for the people there. I really do.

Now, here is the question that knocks around my head – do the people there know how bad it is.

OzSoapbox on May 26th, 2009 at 3:05 am #

With a media blackout for god knows how long I sincerely doubt it.

The day NK is opened up is going to be such a shock to the people there.

Van Santos on May 26th, 2009 at 3:25 pm #

I also have a feeling the shock will be felt outside of NK. Just from discussion with friends with more knowledge than I will ever have, they all point to the horrors being even greater than shown in the press.

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