South Korea Says North Deploys New Missile

[Coventina]

Source: New York Times

SEOUL — North Korea has deployed a new ballistic missile that threatens U.S. military bases in Guam , according to a South Korean Defense Ministry report released on Monday.

The biannual defense report also said that in the past two years, the North has boosted the number of its special operations troops by 50 percent to 180,000, focusing on night-time and mountain and urban warfare based on “the lessons it had learned while watching the war in Iraq.”

The North’s new intermediate-range missile can travel about 1,800 miles carrying a 1,400-pound warhead, the report said.

Although South Korean officials detected the new missile during a military parade in Pyongyang in 2007, this was the first time they have publicly confirmed its deployment.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/world/asia/24korea.html?ref=world

[geek tragedy]

1. How long before Dear Leader kicks the bucket?

Hopefully someone merely evil instead of evil and insane will succeed him.

[YOY]

3. I still think it will be his son.

But junior is pretty batshit himself. He ran away in secret unbeknownst to his father to Japan a few years ago...to see Mickey Mouse.

Unless there is a high ranking South Korean general who is very good about keeping his future plans under wraps and only in the ears of a select few.

[Angleae]

5. Isn't insanity a requirement to be leader there?

[Captain Hilts]

2. If so, they'll regret it. Really. nt

[miyazaki]

4. ever any good news from that hellhole? n/t