The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei (R) and Chairman of North Korea's Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-NAM meet in Tehran on Saturday, September 1, 2012. Press TV (Iran)
Gordon G. Chang, Daily Beast: North Korean Nuke-Capable Missile Could Hit U.S. and Be Sold to Iran
The launch on Sunday is another sign of Pyongyang’s growing threat, and the impotence of U.S. and global efforts to stop it.
On Sunday, North Korea completed its second-in-a-row successful test of a three-stage launcher, showing the regime’s mastery of an especially complex technology.
Pyongyang claims it put an earth observation satellite — the Kwangmyongsong-4 — in a polar orbit. More likely, the object now circling the earth is a decoy. In 2012, after the North’s last long-range test, it announced it had put a communications satellite in space. No signal, however, has ever been detected from the device.
That “satellite,” and the one launched this week, are about the same weight as a nuclear warhead, and that was the point of these elaborate exercises. North Korea has been putting dead objects in orbit so that it can test, in violation of four sets of UN Security Council resolutions, its ballistic missile technology under the guise of a civilian rocket program.
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WNU Editor: I do not see such a deal going down. Iran is more focused on establishing trade and oil deals to boost its own finances and policy objectives .... buying a nuclear capable rocket from the North Koreans and the blow-back that it would entail is probably on the bottom of their list (if it is even on the list).
8 comments:
WNU Editor,
It's an "idiot based" fearmongering story.
It's a UnHa Class rocket, the first two stages are liquid fueled and it takes 3 days to erect, fuel and launch.
Nobody since the early 1960's is interested in a ballistic missile that takes 3 days to get ready.
Trouble is it would take more than 3 days for the west to figure out what was going on..another 3 to confirm the intell then 3 weeks of debate to phrase a harshly worded response.
3 days or 3 hours as far as u.s dithering and inaction goes it might as well take a month to launch.
fazman,
The NORK's nukes arn't an offensive weapon, ( too few, too weak, too technologically backwards),
They are a defensive weapon, a doomsday weapon, a suicide pact.
Iran already has 5 classes ballistic missiles with equal of greater range, greater throw weight and greater accuracy, so why would Iran want to buy a 1950's Studebaker, when they already have 1990's Toyota's in the inventory, and with sanctions removed, can soon buy Russian and Chinese missiles?
Jay
"The ...s nukes arn't an offensive weapon, ( too few, too weak, too technologically backwards),"
Isn't there a sandbox calling your name?
Guess you've never heard of MAD, Bernard Brodie or Deterrence Theory.
Not surprised, you seem to think Nixon and Ford were Democrats.
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.ca/2016/02/if-aleppo-falls-will-this-end-syrian-war.html?m=1
You really should have continued on with your education, I know that after Kindergarden that learning to use pencils rather than crayons, going with out nap time, losing milk and cookies, is hard for some, but you really should have tried to finish Grade 1.
Bit harsh lol very funny but harsh😉
I may well be wrong but arent these suppos3d to have a 8000km range ir aust in range.
I didnt think lran had a missile with anything near that.
6,400 km range, if they can manage re-entry, which is the really, really hard part. So far they can shoot stuff up, but it burns up on re-entry.
You need to either have a missile that has the legs to cover the distance while staying in the atmosphere, or one that can loft the war head into space, stay in orbit as the world turns, them manage re-entry.
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