Norks Launch Missile

[Barthheart]

All I could think of when I saw this last night was the poor techs and engineer's who're gonna against the wall for the national failure in front of the world..... but maybe one of them was a hero and did it on purpose.

[Staggerwing]

After losing face they will probably throw another nuke down the well in hopes it will rattle some teeth and jangle some nerves.

[LongBlade]

After losing face they will probably throw another nuke down the well in hopes it will rattle some teeth and jangle some nerves.

Why the Chinese coddle those fools is beyond my imagination.

[Barthheart]

After losing face they will probably throw another nuke down the well in hopes it will rattle some teeth and jangle some nerves.

Why the Chinese coddle those fools is beyond my imagination.

Yeah that makes no sense to me either. The Chinese are already taking over the world with capitalism they don't need the dsitraction of a wingnut on their door step.....

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

The Chinese use the Norks as their flying monkey to rattle the cages of the regional powers whenever the need arises.

[besilarius]

NAH!
The missile launch was only window dressing.  It was the teaser for the real event.
The two bronze, 50 foot statues of the founding Kim, and Kim Jong Il, his son.  (Who also grew by at least twenty percent to have his statue as big as his dad's.)

[MikeGER]

Why the Chinese coddle those fools is beyond my imagination.

last eve i saw an interview with Japans former secretary of defense (so a guy who should know)
He said: China simply don't like a German style reunification of Korea with close US ties and further boost in Korean economic strength

(can you imagine if both Korea's could redirect all the effort and manpower that goes now into military then into semiconductors, latest electronics, and so on. plus the economic growth that would come from rebuilding North Korea to southkorean 21st century standards.)   

[LongBlade]

Why the Chinese coddle those fools is beyond my imagination.

last eve i saw an interview with Japans former secretary of defense (so a guy who should know)
He said: China simply don't like a German style reunification of Korea with close US ties and further boost in Korean economic strength

(can you imagine if both Korea's could redirect all the effort and manpower that goes now into military then into semiconductors, latest electronics, and so on. plus the economic growth that would come from rebuilding North Korea to southkorean 21st century standards.)   

Hmmm.

Interesting theory.

From the little I've read, the South Koreans aren't interested in a German style of unification, either. They saw the cost and length of time it took for Germany to recover and have decided that isn't an experience they want to try.

[MikeGER]

They saw the cost and length of time it took for Germany to recover and have decided that isn't an experience they want to try.

we made some tremendous faults while in the process of reunification

..out of sentiments, and not to tell (and let feel) the EastGermans the ugly truth, that their lifetime savings were 'almost worthless' / all wealth systematically robbed by their Ruski communist brothers
so the money was exchanged 1:2  where 1:10 was the real exchange value

also we had to bribe the Ivans with 4 Billion DM  for 'troop relocation costs' and for example let them slip away with no cleanup responsibility for the environmental damage the troops did to the landscape where they were stationed (decades with 'who cares anyway'-spills of all kind of chemicals and hazard waste other dangerous leftovers which has to be cleaned to 'EU standard' )

and a lot of more complicated economy details too

The Koreans as Asians naturally have not sooo much of 'sentiments' for northeren cousin to take into calculation
they would just annex North Korea and the ppl there would be more then glad to have freedom and as much rice+cabbage all.you.can.eat dishes each day.
So it would be much cheeper and faster for them then we did here       

[LongBlade]

Good points, Mike, but I fear for the mental costs.

I was watching TV last night and they were discussing the Norks. If someone commits a crime there they punish three generations for the crime. I don't even think the Stasi left scars that deep.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

So they would lay waste to the families of the rocket scientists? Stuff them down the nuke tunnel?

[bayonetbrant]

Commentary on a soccer match from this morning's highlights:

"The range on that ball would make it the envy of the North Korean space program."

[Barthheart]

Commentary on a soccer match from this morning's highlights:

"The range on that ball would make it the envy of the North Korean space program."

;D

[LongBlade]

Commentary on a soccer match from this morning's highlights:

"The range on that ball would make it the envy of the North Korean space program."

Nice.

[LongBlade]

Commentary on a soccer match from this morning's highlights:

"The range on that ball would make it the envy of the North Korean space program."

Driving the point further home:

A half dozen ominous new North Korean missiles showcased at a lavish military parade were clumsy fakes, analysts say, casting more doubt on the country's claims of military prowess after its recent rocket launch failure.

The weapons displayed April 15 appear to be a mishmash of liquid-fuel and solid-fuel components that could never fly together. Undulating casings on the missiles suggest the metal is too thin to withstand flight. Each missile was slightly different from the others, even though all were supposedly the same make. They don't even fit the launchers they were carried on.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/04/26/analysts-say-north-korea-new-missiles-displayed-at-parade-are-fakes