A post by Pat
Yonhap News Agency reports North Korea has launched the missile.
Breaking News on Twitter reports: US. State Department confirms. Japan did not try to shoot down rocket.
***UPDATE 1*** From Yonhap News:
SEOUL, April 5 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s presidential office confirmed North Korea launched its long-range rocket 15 seconds past 11:30 a.m. Sunday, but said it was too early to call the launch a success.
***UPDATE 2*** BBC reporting rocket passed over Japan and landed in Pacific.
***UPDATE 3*** (Yonhap) North Korean rocket is satellite: Seoul official
Seoul says N. Korean rocket launch “grave threat” to world peace
Reminder of what President Obama said today.
Calling North Korea’s plan of launching a rocket a “provocative†act, U.S. President Barack Obama issued a last-minute call on Pyongyang to scrap the move, adding a warning that the U.S. would bring the matter to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.
“We have made it very clear to the North Koreans that their missile launch is provocative, it puts enormous strains on the six-party talks, and that they should stop the launch,” Obama said in a press conference, Yonhap reported Saturday.
“It is not just us that has said that North Korea should not launch,” he said. “Japan, Korea, Russia, China, the other members of the six-party talks have all indicated that this launch should not go forward.”
***UPDATE 4*** From Breaking News on Twitter:
Japan requests U.N. Security Council emergency session on North Korea’s launch
BULLETIN — NHK: NORTH KOREA MISSLE DID NOT PLACE ANYTHING IN ORBIT
***UPDATE 5*** From Breaking News:
The US State Department will be holding a press conference at 11.40 p.m. Eastern Time, BNO News confirms.
***UPDATE 6***
from the BNO Newsroom.
Washington, D.C. (BNO NEWS) — North Korea’s rocket launch is posing a serious threat to the international community, a U.S. State Department spokesman told BNO News on late Saturday, shortly after North Korea launched a rocket.
“North Korea’s development, deployment and proliferation of ballistic missiles, missile related materials, equipment and technologies pose a serious threat to the Northeast Asian region and to the international community,” the official said.
He said he did not yet have any information about the actual vehicle or if it reached orbit. “We see this as a provocative act [..] it’s a violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution,” the official added.
***UPDATE 7*** UN Security Council will meet tomorrow.
“It is not just us that has said that North Korea should not launch,” he said. “Japan, Korea, Russia, China, the other members of the six-party talks have all indicated that this launch should not go forward.”
In other words, stop or we’ll say stop again. WTF is Barry planning on doing when the next North Korean ICBM actually hits Japan, or Hawaii?
Keeping the US safe from terrorists and psychotic regimes like North Korea is not the Won’s top priority.
Never was. Never will be.
Running GM, empowering the IRS, turning our economy and election system into a Third World joke, cracking lame jkes with Leno, and (most important of all) appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair is all that He cares about.
“It is not just us that has said that North Korea should not launch,” he said.
That’s the problem! It shouldn’t have to take several countries telling them ‘no’. We – meaning the US alone – should have been in a position where our utterance of, ‘You better not even try!’ would have been enough to ward off any wet dreams the Norks had of launching the damn thing in the first place. They know we have nothing but a finger-puppet in the White House – what’s he going to do? Consult with the UN? Ooh! Boy, I bet that puts sweat on the Nork’s brow!
Obama’s words indicate that because other countries didn’t want N. Korea to do this, then it’s a valid request. If it was JUST the U.S. telling him to stop, then that would just confirm how arrogant we are – telling countries what they can and can’t do with their own nukes.
Well, Biden was right about O being tested within 6 months of taking office. Maybe Biden should be Ms. Cleo.
I said ‘nukes’ when I meant to say ‘rockets’. But who are we kidding? We know what will wind up being next.
Japan has the capability of taking this missile out. The fact that they did not, when it actually violated Japanese airspace, can only mean that someone in the US government explicitly told them not to.
U.N. Security Council.
Ooooo….scary….. .
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This single event has completely vindicated Bush for every action he has taken in the rest of the world. We don’t need ‘effing Europe’s approval to stop the damn bad guys when they are a danger to everyone!
But then again, how does an arrogant, dissmisive, and derisive American like me possibly sleep at night? Especially knowing how worthless I am before those beautiful Europeans? Answer: easily…
If Osama is still at the G20 and he loves it over there so much they can keep him.
Yes! FOX. I’m with you.
“Hey Europe! PLEASE. Keep the arrogant bastard. And his little wife, too… .”
A girl can dream… .
:)
It’s America’s (and Israel’s for that matter) fault because of its previous arrogance and bullying behavior. /sarcasm.
I suppose we can expect Hillary there soon, sharing a drink ala Madeline Albright, in the near future:
http://tinyurl.com/dbd84x
Of course, we can resort now, once again, to a call for 6 party conversations. And ANOTHER “tough” UN security council resolution, which will be meaningless with China holding and promising to excercise veto power.
Did anyony happen to notice that this missile was aimed at our west coast?
Everybody get ready for the “Strongly Worded Letter”!!
Yes, I agree w/ others who have posted: while the Big O’s are in Europe, why don’t we have emergency legislation drafted that keeps their backsides parked over there indefinitely? We can start off the wording something like this:
“When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Law of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among them are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. – Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies (now States); and such is now the necessity which contrains them to alter their former Systems of Government; the history of the current Occupant of the White House is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”
(And the list goes shall commence)
With a New American Revolution, we need to submit a New Declaration of Independence. Not that we need to re-word it at all, just clarify it’s no longer King George we’re dealing with, then be willing to attach all our names to it knowing there will be consequences – but it will be worth it in the end.
And of course Obama grew up in Hawaii. I guess he doesn’t have a problem with whatever family and friends he has left there possibly becoming glow-in-the-dark.
Didn’t obama’s secretary of defense just last week give north Korea the go ahead to launch? Now we are surprised? Again, the lib sets up and causes the problem and then they play the “surprised” game (ie. Bonuses)and the drones (stupid citizen) just go along… Where is the outrage against the sphincter “O?” Why haven’t I seen anyone bring up this point?