Japanese government warns North Korea missile headed toward northern Japan

[Kontinuum]

The Japanese government has warned that a North Korean missile is headed toward the Tohoku region at the northern end of the country, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK.

NHK said that the government has urged people in Tohoku to take refuge in solid buildings or underground shelters.

Yonhap, citing South Korean military, reported that Pyongyang fired a projectile into the sea off the eastern coast of North Korea.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/28/japa...port-says.html

The #DPRK ballistic missile has now flown over #Japan, according to @nhk_news.

https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/902278777895575554

[Varitok]

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/28/japa...port-says.html

How slow is their missile? Just send up a guy to disarm it in flight if its going that slow.

[schwarzkopf]

How slow is their missile? Just send up a guy to disarm it in flight if its going that slow.

Ballistic missiles don't go for speed, they go for distance ... they are unpowered for much of their trajectory.

[Fonduset]

Is this not an actual attack? Time to retaliate and get rid of this crazy kim

[Katsutomai]

Huh... NK about to be wiped off the face of the Earth?

[Traveler Voltin]

so this would be considered an act of war? or a declaration of war?

[Slant]

It seems it wasn't an attack like many of you sickos hoped. Sorry, you can put away the popcorn.

[Pann]

Ballistic missiles don't go for speed, they go for distance ... they are unpowered for much of their trajectory.

An ICBM will be travelling at around 7km/s prior to impact, it takes around 30 minutes for one to travel from the US to Russia.

[Pann]

Is this not an actual attack? Time to retaliate and get rid of this crazy kim

Yes, because getting rid of crazy leaders has worked out so well, for everyone, over the last, almost, two decades.

[Blamblam41]

Ballistic missiles don't go for speed, they go for distance ... they are unpowered for much of their trajectory.

Which is exactly why the NK "crisis" is a toothless threat. Even if they get to the same point of development as the United States and the USSR 75 years ago, there are still countermeasures in place for such outdated and slow technology.

It's the reason Russia hasn't nuked the EU aside from wanting to conquer it, and why Russia won't dare thinking about tossing a nuke in the United States direction and vice versa. The countermeasure technology is too good, combined with the looming threat of mutually assured annihilation.

Frankly, the proper response to NK has always been and will always be to not feed it. It will die of its own accord either through self-destruction or fading away to obscurity.

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Yes, because getting rid of crazy leaders has worked out so well, for everyone, over the last, almost, two decades.

I mean. We can start with Kim, then we can get Trump and Putin.

Following that, the psychotic motherfucker running the Phillipines has got to go.

[Kaleredar]

Oh okay, they didn't aim the missile at Japan, just over it...

Very reassuring.

[Pann]

That's almost entirely due to gravity at that point.

Okay? And?

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I mean. We can start with Kim, then we can get Trump and Putin.

Following that, the psychotic motherfucker running the Phillipines has got to go.

We could just push the button and get rid of everyone!

[Fonduset]

Yes, because getting rid of crazy leaders has worked out so well, for everyone, over the last, almost, two decades.

Great job in just starting off with a huge strawman response. All it would take is for China to say enough is enough, walk in and get rid. A full scale bombardment wouldnt be ideal as Kim would soon flatten Seul and kill millions.
Keep on with the constructive responses. You're doing great.

[Kontinuum]

Splashdown point for the #DPRK missiles ~1,180 km east off the coast of Hokkaido, say Japanese officials.
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/902285676829433856

[Xandrigity]

Well with military exercises going on with South Korea right now for the next 10 days it’s all about who has the biggest dick out there now.

[Skroe]

Just throwing this here.
http://www.heritage.org/defense/repo...s-america-risk

On February 2, 2009, Iran successfully launched a satellite into orbit using a rocket with technology similar to that used in long-range ballistic missiles. On May 20, 2009, Iran test-fired a 1,200-mile solid-fueled ballistic missile. North Korea attempted to launch a satellite on April 6, 2009, which, while failing to place the satellite in orbit, delivered its payload some 2,390 miles away in the Pacific Ocean. This was followed by a North Korean explosive nuclear weapons test on May 25, 2009. The ballistic-missile threat to the U.S. and its friends and allies is growing. Under these circumstances, common sense would dictate that the Obama Administration support full funding for the U.S. missile defense program.

What does the Administration do? On April 6, 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the Obama Administration's fiscal year (FY) 2010 broader defense budget would reduce the ballistic-missile budget by $1.4 billion.[1] This reduction was applied against an undisclosed baseline. The defense budget itself was released on May 7, 2009.[2] The budget reveals that overall missile defense spending in FY 2010, including for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Army, will be reduced to $9.3 billion from $10.92 billion in FY 2009.[3] This $1.62 billion total reduction represents an almost 15 percent decline in U.S. military spending. This budget can be charitably described as a lackadaisical approach by the Obama Administration to meet the urgent requirement of defending Americans and U.S. friends and allies against ballistic-missile attack.

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The US fully deserves it's North Korean missile threat. The North Koreans (like the Iranians are) have crawled to this day at an absolutely glacial pace. This is the slowest of slow-motion crisises. They got here, and our options are more limited, because the US found ways to be even slower, against all odds.

Fact is, President of Happy Land and Sunshine, Barack Obama, did not follow his predecessors lead in boosting Missile Defense against this eventuality, because early-late 00's Democrats had some kind of ridiculous navel-gazing ethical aversion to it. One they don't have now. Because reality punched them in the face.

And here we are. The clown made a bunch of speeches about a nuclear free world that forgot one critical element: nobody who actually had nuclear weapons (including America) actually cared.

The US is finally, spending on the technologies it needs to to improve missile defense, after Obama reversed course in 2016. You know. After having to gaze at his navel and meditate on it for 8 years. But it won't be as robust as it needs to be until the early 2020s.

In a different world, the US had Aegis Ashore emplacements in Japan that could have shot this missile down. Now those will likely be built in years ahead, despite Japan asking, for literally, 4 years.



Barack Obama, events like this remind us how much of a fucking ideological asshole and provincial menace that you were. History is going to let you off the hook far easier than you deserve because incredibly, you were replaced by something worse. But we're far less prepared against North Korea, against Iran, against Russia and most of all, against China, because rather than modernize and improve the arsenal of democracy, you were rather embarrassed that such a thing existed from day one and spent six and a half of your eight years letting it erode.

Your legacy is letting American National Security dramatically erode while you filled your people's ears with happy talk. You fixed the mess your predecessor gave you, and replaced it with a far worse one.

[schwarzkopf]

Which is exactly why the NK "crisis" is a toothless threat.

Until the day they put a nuke in one, and people are so used to random NK missiles - they go 'meh' one too many times.

[Pann]

Great job in just starting off with a huge strawman response. All it would take is for China to say enough is enough, walk in and get rid. A full scale bombardment wouldnt be ideal as Kim would soon flatten Seul and kill millions.
Keep on with the constructive responses. You're doing great.

Why do you think it is a huge strawman response? Getting rid of crazy leaders has lead to massive loss of life, destabilised whole regions, cost billions of dollars and yet there is still no end in sight for the Middle Eastern deployments. Why would you think this would any different? And why would China walk in and get rid?

Although I am sorry that you feel challenging your crackpot ideas is not constructive.

[Mittens]

China wtf are you doing?

[Toogoodman]

So where is everyone who said "NK wont do anything, they're just trying to preserve their own sovereignty"

Sure seems like theyre trying to die