North Korea’s fireworks show continues: Missile launch number three
Another North Korean missile launch…
North Korea launched another missile into the Sea of Japan early Wednesday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, citing an official at Seoul’s presidential office. The action marked the third straight day the nation has tested missiles and came as members of the U.N. Security Council met to discuss a punitive resolution against North Korea for its apparently successful nuclear-weapon test Monday.
And more feckless declarations in the works:
Ambassadors of the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Japan and South Korea met Tuesday to draft a resolution on North Korea’s second nuclear test, U.N. diplomatic sources said.
The seven countries have already agreed to issue a resolution on Monday’s North Korean action, which sparked global condemnation as violating Resolution 1718 banning the country from all ballistic missile and nuclear activity.
The ambassadors from the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China, as well as Japan and South Korea, apparently tried to coordinate their stance on the draft resolution, being prepared by Japan and the United States.
The 15-member Security Council is believed to be aiming for the resolution’s adoption by the end of the week, when Russia’s monthly council presidency expires, the sources said.
They’ll get around to expressing official “grave concern” for today’s launch…next week, I guess.
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Let’s show them what a real nuke is like and drop it on top of them.
I can’t believe that any resolution by the U.N. Security Council could have any real meaning. I’m off to research “comfy chair.”
Clearly obama needs to say “STOP” again.
Can’t believe it hasn’t worked.
That’s a lot of experimental communication satellites going to waste.
Barry O is off to Vegas for a Dingy Harry fundraiser.
Priorities.
A new round of speeches by diplomats, followed by laughing from the North Koreans, followed by concessions for peace once again, followed by more laughing.
Somebody else may have beat me to it in the earlier, related thread, but the first thing that comes to mind is the confrontation between Hans Blix and Kim Jong Il in, “Team America:”
Sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction.
Which one of the next missiles launched will have a warhead on it? Or which one will simply be detonated in a major “western” city?
Just words, Mr. President? No one in DC has the appropriate male anatomy to deal with this. Someone get Dick Cheney a shotgun and a flight to Pyongyang!
Thats not fiction, thats about what happens.
I could be mistaken as I am sitting in a truckstop eatery, but did I not just hear our new ambassador to the UN on Fox news saying how the UN is working on a new resolution to “stand firm” against North Korea or some such?
Actualy, If I were North Korea, I would call obama, tell him that they will invade tomorrow and will not fire on Americans if they donot fire back, then attack. obama would choose to save American lives over the lives of millions of South Koreans.
Why not? we all know here that obama will not stand up to a dictator.
Do these “diplomats” even begin to understand how irrelevant they are? The despots of the world laugh in their faces time after time, and all they can do is think to write another letter. What a bunch of pathetic high school student government types.
Well, actually I’m not sure TEH ONE ever said “STOP”. I think wha he said was more like “UPSETTING”, “DISTURBING”, “NOT GOOD FOR MICHELLE’S KIDS”. Well, maybe not the last one.
Good point…
If Japan is not already nuclear they will be soon. There is no way they will continue to put up with this. They will turn out to be the only ones in the whole Pacific that has the gumption to call their long-lost buds in Beijing and tell them to sit – now, and to call off the attack dogs in NK. And old enemy is one that remembers what it took to cause you to blink.
Goodness… Obie’s now calling this “a matter of most grave concern”
WOW, if it gets worse he may have to cancel tomorrows golf game!!!
0-bama already said that he was “gravely concerned” about the Norks’ nuclear test. If North Korea continues down this road, 0-bama has threatened to hire more speechwriters with access to even sterner adjectives.
Obama just needs to bow a little lower…and more good news..courtesy DEBKA
The Russians have sent warships into the persian gulf…in coordination with Iran of course…and Obama has reduced the number of US ships in the gulf to the lowest level in 2 years to facilitate dialogue with our friend Ahmadinajad!!!
looks like they will BURY US.
Our enemies don’t respect us or fear us and this once great nation has become a neutered laughing stock.
My response: spontaneous laughter.
ok, President Obama. Prove you’re not just empty promises and preening self-interest. Do something.
I’ll hold my breath……can’t do it……can’t hold back the laughter.
While I TOTALLY understand your feelings…
1 mad man + nuclear weapon = not funny.
Now can we impeach The One?
Just dreamin’…..
Anyone here would have ever thought President Bush would be on a golf game or a fund raiser in a global mess this little nk worm is doing? God help our Republic, we sure need help and it isn’t coming from bho.
L
Kind of like an above-ground nuclear test in downtown Pyongyang?
http://townhall.com/cartoons/2009/05/26/4
Not funny. True.
North Korea is merely engaging in unilateral disarmament. They are destroying their small arsenal of missiles in the most visible manner possible. There is no pleasing some people.
I hope the Commanders at 7th Air Force and the 2nd Infantry Division are taking this threat seriously and putting their troops on alert. The forces we have in place will put up one hell of a fight if these guys really want to test the temper of “dear leader” and start marching South. Hopefully he will have the sense to let Secretary Gates position some assets before they are overrun. To paraphrase Biden during his comments in Seattle back during the election cycle, “He is going to be tested and the world will find he has a spine of wet spaghetti.”
This is a lot of chest-thumping coming from an increasingly boisterous dictator.
These are not launches to verify or test the capability of a system. You do not perform back-to-back launches of any weapons system without crunching all the performance data (fire control, flight control, aimpoint CEP, accuracy modeling, reliability modeling, telemetry, etc.) so that necessary changes can be incorporated into the flight algorithms as well as any hardware revisions. I doubt seriously that N. Korea can be amassing any detailed studies in support of their missile program.
This series of launches is for political gain only.
He’s “gravely concerned”.How many graves have to be filled before he really gets concerned?
Wow, Kim Jong ILL must be really scared of Obama now.
You mean Kimmy the tin-pot dictator is not listening to the messiah? Why, I am SHOCKED!
Flash: Obama has replaced Shillery as Secretary of State with Rodney King. He’s been requested to deliver our response.
If this keeps up, I bet Obama will be the first to profer his Kenyan birth certificate, just to get the hell out of Dodge!
Oh, but I bet Kim will listen to the U.N.! Nobody wants to make them mad!
Right on. When the appropriate self-serving moment arrives, the BC will become available.
Before that can happen, we may be a smoking pile of ash.
LOL
It will probably be a while, he has to save something as a last resort.
Definitely snortworthy.
Somewhere in Vegas:
BHO: yo, Bobby, my man, what do you think we should do about Kimmie’s little fireworks display?
GenRG: We should drop some bunker busters on the fruitcake and simultaniously bomb his nuclear facilities.
BHO: Oh, Bob, you are such a card. Let me phone him on the Axis of Evil ™ Red Phone. Hummm, where did I put my Little Red Book? Ah, here it is.
(dials phone)
KJI: What you want? I busy posting pics on my new blog. Want Mahmood to see how good his stuff worked for me.
BHO: Kim, you need to take a little break. Japan and South Korea are a l-e-e-e-t-t-l-e nervous with your War Games.
KJI: So? It is a free country…You got any old ordinance I can take off your hands?
BHO: No, we are destroying our ordinance. Say, why don’t you join me on Wednesday for a few rounds of golf? Shelli will have some of that wagyu beef you so enjoy and we can pop the cork on one of those new bottles of vino that Auuhnoold dropped off last week.
KJI: No way, Jose. Last time I was there Rahm brought in Arby’s and tried to pass it off as wagyu. That make me really mad. Say want to see something BIG fun? Pull up Google Earth and zoom to The Golden Gate Bridge.
BHO: I don’t have time for that now, I’m in the middle of a fund raiser for Harry.
KJI: Look INCOMING TO HOLLYWOOD!!!!
BHO: Oh no, you DIDN’T! You little rat…
KJI: You call me little rat, eh? INCOMING TO Fancy Nancy!!!
BHO: (chucking to self) Now, Kim, don’t do me any favors? (pulls out Blackberry and fiddles with it….)
Oh, of all the nerve! I was willing to accept that little nuclear bomb test as some immature sophomoric prank, but now they’re acting just downright rude!
Hmph! If they keep this up, I may just have to take Kim off my Facebook friend’s list!
Kim Jong Il is this close to losing his Chrysler dealership…
I’ve been thinking exactly the same every time I hear of the NorKs.
I wish I could remember what he said after Hans went through the floor.
FIFY
Well, his response does seem quite pathetic… however… to be fair, they’re not going to actually come out and tell the world exactly what they’re going to do. Well, Biden might. So he’s probably watching videos in his now well known bunker while plans are being made.
hussein and the UN might have something cooked up. Could happen.
They better watch out, Dear Leader is really getting pi$$ed off now. He may do something drastic now, like wag his finger at the camera or something.
…but will it be any good for us?
Did the Dep. of Education take over the Dep. of State? I mean, this all reminds me of a whiny, emasculated substitute teacher’s endless pleading for the kid next to me to stop slinging spit wads at the chalkboard (you know, the kind that smack and stick to the board?).
Seriously, are there any men left in Washington? This is embarrassing. It’s the day after Memorial Day for crying out loud! They could at least do we relatively few veterans/service members the respect of at least acting like men.
I am going to not get myself jacked up about this launch just yet. It does not appear to be a “test” as much as a tactical launch of a proven weapon.
Also, given the range I am not sure it even qualfies under the UN sanction. We shoot Harpoons and Tomahawks all the time.
I’d acknowledge this missle shot, but remain focused on the nukes and the long range systems. These short range shots are designed to jerk our chain and distract us. To a large degree they need to be “ignored.”
Full blockade time.
They’ll keep shooting until somebody coughs up some cash.
I doubt they’ll have long to wait.
You don’t need a missle to float a nuke on a boat and light it off.
I wonder if all of these distractions are keeping Obama too bothered to get his favorite pizza chef to bake for him?
I wonder what Matt Stone and Trey Parker think about THE ONE right now?
The Teleprompter is currently scripting some truly profound language that will shame North Korea into… waiting a week to fire another missile.
The President waits patiently for the Teleprompter to finish…
If Obama did anything right, it was selecting Biden as VP. Okay, let’s say that Obama is impeached and convicted (very unlikely). Guess who becomes president? No, thanks! That would leave Pelosi next in line too. It almost makes the presidency “impeachment proof”.
If only these “words” and “declarations” were bombs and bullets. The North Koreans’d've been gone long ago….
JDinTX: Delivery in 30 minutes or less or the next one is free!
I see BO just told N Korea to stop it. Well that problem is solved, so now let’s get back to turning USA into a marxist state.