The provocative missile launch in North Korea this weekend shocked many in the international community and was met with strong condemnation around the globe.
But it was also meant to send a message. North Korea believes it’s long-range rocket can now easily target the West Coast of the United States.
Now, in order to stop the mad North, the U.S. may need China’s help.
According to CNN, the missile used was a Unha rocket, believed to be of the Taepodong long-range ballistic missile. These missiles are capable of carrying a nuclear payload an estimated 5,600 miles — putting much of the U.S. West Coast in range. North Korea currently has an estimated 100 nuclear weapons, but had previously no way of aiming them at the mainland U.S.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un went ahead with the launch just two hours after an eight-day window opened early Sunday, and a month after the country’s fourth nuclear test. He ignored an appeal from China, its neighbor and important ally, not to proceed, and, in another slap to Beijing, he chose the eve of the Chinese New Year, the country’s most important holiday.
In a reflection of heightened hostilities between the rival Koreas, South Korea’s Defense Ministry said a South Korean naval vessel fired five shots into the water as a warning Monday when a North Korean patrol boat briefly moved south of the countries’ disputed boundary line in the Yellow Sea.
At the U.N., the U.S., backed by its allies, Japan and South Korea, wants tough sanctions reflecting Kim’s defiance of the Security Council. But diplomats say China, the North’s key protector in the council, is reluctant to impose economic measures that could cause North Korea’s economy to collapse — and a flight of North Koreans into China across their shared border.
The 15-member Security Council strongly condemned the launch and pledged to “expeditiously” adopt a new resolution with “further significant measures” — U.N. code for sanctions. The word “robust” referring to the measures was in an initial draft, but was dropped in the final statement.
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power told reporters that “it cannot be business as usual” after two successive North Korean acts that are “hostile and illegal.”
“What’s important is that the Security Council unites,” Power said. “China is a critical player. … We are hopeful that China, like all council members, will see the grave threat to regional and international peace and security, see the importance of adopting tough, unprecedented measures, breaking new ground here, exceeding the expectations of Kim Jong Un.”
However, China’s U.N. ambassador, Liu Jieyi, made clear that unprecedented sanctions aren’t Beijing’s priority.
He said a new resolution should “do the work of reducing tension, of working toward denuclearization (of the Korean peninsula), of maintaining peace and stability, and of encouraging a negotiated solution.”
“I believe the council needs to work together for a new resolution,” Liu added, indicating that China may want negotiations with the United States to be widened.
North Korea, which calls its launches part of a peaceful space program, said it had successfully put a new Earth observation satellite, the Kwangmyongsong 4, or Shining Star 4, into orbit less than 10 minutes after liftoff, and vowed more such launches.
North Korea under Kim Jong Un has pledged to bolster its nuclear arsenal unless Washington scraps what Pyongyang calls a hostile policy meant to collapse Kim’s government.
“If North Korea has only nuclear weapons, that’s not that intimidating. If they have only rockets, that’s not that intimidating, either. But if they have both of them, that means they can attack any target on Earth. So it becomes a global issue,” said Kwon Sejin, a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
We need Teddy Roosevelt!
We need someone besides the worthless muslim
we have now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amen
I agree
U hit the nail on the head.i fail to understand why Obama hasn’t been impeached already.
The racist rants just keep on spewing forth.
Mel….the reason why he hasn’t been impeached is because we have a bunch of ball-less politicians in DC……BTW, they have no backbone either……our muslim in charge has been in long enough that calls from the press saying that opponents are all racists should be falling on deaf ears by now. We’ve had 7 years of his crap and surely hia sctions have spoken volumes. He certainly shows no love for American values….Remember what he said about “fundamentaly” changing the Unites States?
Absolutely, he should be impeached. He sickens me just to look at him! He’s lunatic!
Then sigh of W ought to have hospitalized you.
I AGREE , TRUMP 2016 !!!!!!!!!!
If you are quiet no one will know just how ignorant you are.
We need informed electorate… that leaves you out though… maybe you could read a good history book.. one without lots of pictures… or maybe Constitution.
I’d settle for IKE
THIS IS MAKING TRUMP LOOK BETTER AND BETTER , REMEMBER HE WARNED US ABOUT
N . KOREA , HE SAID THAT MANIAC REALLY HAS NUKES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go for it, Fearless Leader Kim. Our left coast needs some genetic cleansing. Please target San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and Los Angeles first. Next, where ever Harry Reid, Al Gore, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Brown, and Dianne Feinstein are ensconced. Please give us a heads-up, in English only.
My exact thoughts William
Cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Hey, I live on the west coast along with those others, and I don’t want to be targeted.
I would hope that our country would have some retaliation. Let’s try shooting some of our missiles in the ocean close to North Korea!!
Why did I not think of that Willium?
We could move “Blue Blood” to Texas and to hell with the
rest of the marxist
I beg to differ I live in Seattle asshole !!
While you still have a chance, then, I would seriously consider giving U-Haul some business. Go East, young lady!
I believe your daily articles will shed some light in and around the Asian regions, particularly China, N. Korea, S. Korea and the complete Asian Pacific regions where there seems to be trouble brewing every day.
What this county needs is someone with balls to take care of business and eliminate the threat. Once we have that then the USA will be left alone. I agreed with John. We need someone other than Muslims in control.
Historically, McArtur told Truman to drop a nuke on about one million Chinese troops on the other side of the Yalu River. That would have pretty much ended all hostilities. The Chinese had no nukes and the Russians had little to no response capability. If you’re going to develop weapons that end wars quickly and then not use them. What’s the point? The Cold War was totally unnecessary. Korea would have been won, followed by a Chinese capitulation, no Vietnam. Wussies in the White House . . . Yes, Teddy Roosevelt would have been on the flight to drop the package himself. No more wussies, please?
and now you have an idiot with missiles and warheads that can reach the US mainland? WTF?
If ours reach theirs then only right theirs reach here. we are not the world’s policeman. we are not righteous.
after all we are only ones to use nukes on people and not just to poison south pacific wildlife.
no preemptive strikes just have enough targeting them so that if they should be dumb enough… it would be last thing they do.
Kim Jong Un is an overgrown spoiled brat. His uncle, the power behind the throne, must have made a mass of deals with the other leaders to put KJU in the top spot, and hold the regime together. In return, KJU had his uncle removed from office, imprisoned, and torn apart by dogs — a very dishonorable death. IOW, that’s what happens to those who dare say “No” to KJU.
I have to suspect that China is working on deals that will cause KJU to fall out of a high window, or the equivalent, if he continues to be a problem for them.
Mr. William Hays are you out of your mind? attack our West Coast?? what if your family lived in San Francisco, Portland, etc??? would you want them nuked? I really can’t believe that any AMERICAN would say such a thing. Shame on you.
O Betty win some lose some!!!
Aspergus to you want to be in the line of fire with a nuke?? evidently, you do not life on the West Coast.Do you
want to be on the win some or lose some side???
He’s a little dick with a big hole for a mouth !!
If they would even try to send a nuke here to the US they would be made of glass so fast it would make their heads spin.
gooyoung: Not with the Anti-America, Commie, Muslim in the Presidents office.
We can’t go to war until the jackass is replaced. Otherwise, elections are suspended. That’s how FDR did 4 terms, passing away during the last. I bet he prays for that every night.
Susan: Right now if we were to go to War we would lose. Russia, China, & North Korea, have been practicing war games together for several years now. Our equipment is all worn out from all the BS in the middle East.
Our world is a dangerous place. It is filled with leaders who have no problem starving their own people or attacking others. We need a leader who will deal firmly with North Korea. For starters, Kim Jong Un needs to understand that if he attacks the United States that his country will be vaporized. Un needs to understand that our reaction will be swift. We will not waste time on a flurry of worthless United Nations resolutions. We will not waste time sending a diplomat to his country. We will bombard his country with enough nuclear missiles to turn South Korea into an island.
With this current “leader”, there will be no reaction, other than another red line that is just a meaningless gesture. We can’t do anything because it would be racist, and it would offend KJY.
Let’s not get too worried. If they’re smart enough to build a rocket, they’re smart enough to realize that one missile
to the US will wipe N. Korea off the map. Unfortunately, some of S. Korea and China will also be wiped out.
“Betty Says”, I’m sure that Mr. Hays was being facetious. Even we who have totally different political views than radical liberals and their “think tank” associates, we have no wish to destroy these people’s lives! Certainly not millions of men, women and children who would be lost, in an area of California or anywhere else in the world for that matter, where such a catastrophic weapon would be detonated! When I was in the Army I was prepared to defend my country’s people of every kind, race, religion, political standing, national origin, or anything else that might have stood out differently from myself. I’m still that way. I have many friends and loved ones who have a lot of liberal and what I term radical political views.They might be different than ones that I hold, but as an American I am ready to put my life on the line for each one. Not just for their lives, but also for them to have the freedom of choice and beliefs that they choose. Each and every one of them, even though they might differ from mine.
Taking a look at history, Koreans were not responsible for the “Korean War.” It is the foreign leadership of the USA that has several hundred military installations scattered around the earth. It is the israeli leadership of the USA that is using NATO, Saudi Arabia and Turkey to use the proxy force, ISIL to destroy Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iran, enabling Israel to expand its borders to include all these nations. Meanwhile, the jewish media attempts to frighten Americans and Europeans into accepting the New World Order.
The leadership of North Korea has notified the Israeli leadership of the USA to not try to overtake North Korea, again. Meanwhile, Israel controls over 200 ICBMs pointed at various major cities in Europe, Asia and Russia, with 25 or more nuke bombs placed in major locations within the U.S.
Fear of North Korea´s “potential” ICBM capability ? L.O.L !!
They are not even close to having a rocket that can hit the East Coast. They are just being belligerent. They are 20 years from having such a weapon. So don’t lose any sleep over it.
The UN’s 3 primary goals, as was declared by them in the 70’s before they became “user friendly”, was;
1.) guns and weapons control
2.) food control
3.) population control
This era we are in right now is actively engaging all three. How will they bring about population control- well, here it is in this article. The UN uses entire ethnic groups/nations of people as it’s “tools/weapons”. This is why the UN is currently being paid billions to send muslims to every country in the world. They view muslims as the perfect tool to incite wars and wipe out large portions of populations worldwide. North Korea is another easy tool/weapon- shake them up and turn them loose on the world. They are also allies with Iran.
Sad but true- we’re on the cusp of witnessing some major use of #3 on their agenda.
It’s not North Korea’s potential ICBMs that we have to worry about, it’s those Polar Orbit satellites, possibly carrying an atomic bomb, to be detonated miles above the central US to create an EMP event, that would kill off about 70+% of all Americans, by destroying our power grid, sending us back to using 19th century technology, like plowing/harvesting with mules/oxen, wind powered water wells, defecating in outhouses, heating with coal/wood, etc. driving horse and buggies, lighting with candles and oil lamps, etc….
Pretty much the only ones who would survive, would be the Amish, Preppers, etc. and certain Native Americans who still follow the ‘old ways’, etc. Everyone else would die off, in short order, mostly from dehydration (3 days w/out water) starvation (3-4 weeks w/out food) and diseases from the lack of sewage removal and the plethora of rotting dead bodies, lying about.
Note; the US Military is 98% dependent upon the civilian power grid, so they won’t be of any help.