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Posted by: jbates 2 years, 2 months agoAlthough missile didn't make it into space, firing made its point in other important ways.
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vintageracer
July 6, 2006, 12:47 p.m.the missle exploded. was their point that they build missles with the same quality that they build cars? a failed launch gives their credibility another blow. they want attention,not war.they lack the funds (and technology)to wage a war.they have no global support to attack anyone.i say watch them close and ignore their childish threats.
matt
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edgeindianews
July 6, 2006, 1:47 p.m.Alert__! Its not they the people of north korea rather a bunch of terrorists/Dictators running that country by force through last many years a blot on whole democratic humanity. This act of these terrorists is a slap on the face of democratic world and precisely the most powerful rat body the united nations which confusingly is toothless and precisely by its inactions is responsible for promoting such negative forces world over.
m.k
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thememusa
July 6, 2006, 2:42 p.m.I agree with vintageracer. they want attention, not war. NK knows what it is doing with these missile tests. they want personal attention from the US, and I believe they have the US where they want them. Going to war would be bad for NK and even worse for the US, since it is committed in Iraq and initiating another engagement in the Korean Peninsula would make it worse for the US. I think the US has to engage in bilateral talks with them, cause really the US has no other feasible option in my mind. I mean, it wouldn't hurt just to talk and listen with NK.
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ohithere
July 6, 2006, 7:25 p.m."We have acheived peace in our time." English Prime Minister Chamberlain shortly before Hitler invaded Poland by force and launched WW2.
The best way to avoid war is to be prepared for war. What a bunch of paranoid leaders N Korea has. Not unlike Hugo Chavez except they do have more military toys than Chavez. We cannot let our guard down. We must be ready for whatever idiots that run the country may try to do. They pirated the USS Pueblo and tortured our crew sometime about 1967-1968 and use that ship today as justification for their illicit acts of aggression. It is no secret that tunnels are discovered on a regular basis in the DMZ, dug by communists to infiltrate S Korea.
There is no weapon ever invented by mankind that has not been used by mankind. N Korea will be no different. They probably can not win a war but they sure can start one and drag the US, China and Russia into a protracted conflict that nobody will win. This is a grave situation that bears a strong response.
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funkytaco
July 6, 2006, 9:17 p.m.I don't believe we are "committed in Iraq" past December. Bush has given the hints that we are eventually going to desert them after starting a war the Iraqis never wanted. Hooray, no more Saddam. Boo, anarchy.
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spock
July 6, 2006, 11:28 p.m.Just take out their silos so they can't nuke us. That is the only way they can really strike us unless they transport their troops across the Atlantic.
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Invisible
July 7, 2006, 2:52 a.m.Hi,
This is the topic I am concern about. July 5 Korea had test a missile, but luckily it fail. This is the first step for war, so we as an American have to stop it before it happen. We must take this seriously, because, once they succeed in the deadly weapon, we are in danger. Imagine if they already had succeed in the deadly weapon, what would happen to the world ? We would live in threat ... We must do something to prevent them from making the weapon. I personally think this is very serious, not a joke. Please don't be ignorant, we must prevent it from happen. We must be alert...
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Leroy
July 7, 2006, 8:30 a.m.I believe that these people are intelligent enough to figure out what went wrong and get it right. The United States failure to accept people as equal in intelligence is why we are going around the world bombing every threat and killing inocent people instead of using equally developed minds to discuss differences with them.
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ThomasRetzlaff
July 7, 2006, 9:14 a.m.Mouse that Roared
They are the poorest nation on earth, find out what they do best, beside starting wars, and begin trading with them. Stay away from that freeken dictator and do commerce with their business community.
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stirwin
July 7, 2006, 10:17 a.m.Well, we know they are contrarian, dogmatic, quixotic, and toxic to their citizens and to the rest of the world. If we feel threatened(in spite of any "assistance" from China and Russia) that they are really willing and preparing to kill Americans, then we must give them a knock out punch that will also send a message to Iran... Push us to the brink and we will level you. N.Korea is too unstable to gamble with when they are showing signs of putting an atomic warhead on top of a delivery system. They have virtually nothing to lose in the exchange; we have a great deal to lose.
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Golf_TorreyPines
July 7, 2006, 11:50 a.m.North Korea is China's puppet. Its China's way of doing dirty deeds without China's hands getting dirty. And with politics mixed with business President Bush even though he hates China, he loves money even more.
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Golf_TorreyPines
July 7, 2006, 11:51 a.m.North Korea is China's puppet. Its China's way of doing dirty deeds without China's hands getting dirty. And with politics mixed with business President Bush even though he hates China, he loves money even more.
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PeaceNow
July 7, 2006, 10:44 p.m.Well folks this is what happens when you leave the diplomacy to a bunch of war profiteer's. Bush and Co. stepped away and let China, Japan, and Russia take the lead in economic trade off's and see what happens?
I believe they are a smart but poor people with little to lose attempting to get attention from the people that they feel can make a diffrence in thier plight. Of course if we would stop going around handing our friends nuclear weapons while telling everyone we disagree with they can't have it ... that might help too. (Pakistan a few months ago) It's the same story with Iran, though the war profiteer's hamstrung us by outing Valerie Plame and the co. She worked for in Iran that was unofficial C.I.A. W.M.D investigators. Just remember the wolfs are guarding the hen house and all they care about is power and money and don't care who gets run under the bus in the process.
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nader70
July 7, 2006, 11:02 p.m.Realy North Korea is teh good people and tha good place to make a great story......
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