North Korea fires missile over Japan

Pissy Missy

Foooookkk! WW3?

I missed the days when the height of crazy was in a movie, now its the real deal

http://www.rte.ie/news/2022/1004/1326974-north-korea-missile-japan/

Denny61

Will you stop..nothing to worry about ..usual tantrums.

Atlantic Dawn

These last few years are certainly an interesting time to be alive 😂.

Pissy Missy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119698289#Comment_119698289

You can say that again 😂🙈

Dufflecoat Fanny

It travelled 4000km and over Japan. Surely gives Japan the justification to respond with strikes to take out NK silos and arms factories

Quantum Erasure

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119698294#Comment_119698294

the missile flew to an altitude of 1,000km

i don't know but I'd say thats well outside of their airspace

silliussoddius

It’s not as if fat boy Kim could do with feeding his citizens.

Quantum Erasure

you'd miss the NK missile tests all the same...

Evergreen_7

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119698286#Comment_119698286

You must be joking. Biggest threat to the entire world that lad. I’d assume it’s a response to the Ukraine doing better than Kim thought they would, him being a Russian allie and all.

basically waving his dick around going “look what I can do boys”

both dangerous and idiotic. What a combination.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119698346#Comment_119698346

They're like a cup of sweet tea. Great for the nerves 🤣

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119698289#Comment_119698289

There have always been interesting times in relations between Japan and Korea. People in Ireland would have been blissfully unaware in the past about the troubles that went on. Until the curse or the blessing of modern communications, which can make some people worry about stuff they wouldn't have known about before.

In general there were much more interesting times in the past, if interesting is measured in war, famine and pestilence.

Ger Roe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119698289#Comment_119698289

I think the next few will be more 'interesting'.

My faith in humanity doing the right thing for our future is fading rapidly as each global crisis (environmental, economic, humanitarian) only proves that when the excrement collides with the rotating air circulation device, we will revert to fighting all our own particular corners behind imaginary lines drawn on a map, when a whole world coordinated approach is the only hope. Environmental disaster, famine, human displacement, can not be contained by imaginary map lines, but some of the lunatics in power in key parts of the world, haven't realised that yet. It seems crazy that in the 21st century as we look to put people on Mars, we still have despots, crackpots and incompetents running the show and pushing their own short term gain agendas.

We will destroy ourselves rather than work together to ensure peace and ultimate survival for our planet and race.

dxhound2005

There's human nature for you. You won't have seen any better version in the past, and it is not going to change in the future.

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058265921/north-korea-fires-missile-over-japan

theres always been crazy in this world, its just slowly heading towards 11 at the moment

dxhound2005

Better times to be alive now than much of the past. If you think that getting to the age of 80 is an improvement over being gone by the age of 30. Of course you have to be born in the affluent West, to have the best chances in life.

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119698953#Comment_119698953

yes elements of modern life are far better than our ancestors, the only difference now is that we re stupid enough to be able to wipe the whole lot of us out relatively easily....

EOQRTL

Lad's a total nutter. All it takes is for one of those missiles to malfunction hit a Japanese city/town and all bets are off.

dxhound2005

In which case the cosmos will just blink, and our million year experiment in developing human intelligence will be forgotten in the billions of years to come.

nigeldaniel

There is plenty having a giggle about it sure, I even poke fun at ol King Jin whats'it myself, but, if someone fires a missile over Ireland what we say about that? An element of seriousness needs to be taken about what North Korea is doing. If Russia was to set off a test device of some kind soon North Korea would start doing the same [not trying to hide the test that is] and then so too would others, it's a nasty precedent for the world.

dxhound2005

Russians should be more worried than Irish people. They share a border with North Korea.

supermans ghost

Send Mick Wallace & Clare Daly over to intercept the next one they launch. win, win.

Gregor Samsa

NK have done this numerous times in the past. This missile went over Japan at an altitude of about 1,000km - that's more than twice the altitude of the International Space Station - so the whole thing of the Japanese urging people to "look out for falling debris" is a bit of an over-reaction . While is does represent NK's longest missile flight, the most immediate danger would be it awaking Godzilla.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119698566#Comment_119698566

We all know who the biggest threat to the entire world is and it's certainly not him.

CreadanLady

Rocketman was certainly an appropriate name for that loon.

Still living in the 1950s with his ICBM craze.

Evergreen_7

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119699238#Comment_119699238

“We all know”

I don’t. Who?

he’s without doubt one of the biggest threats to the entire world. He’s unhinged, dangerous, has no regard for international law or human rights and has a rake of nuclear weapons at his disposal.

SortingYouOut

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119698566#Comment_119698566

He's far from the biggest threat to the entire world. Their nuclear arms are so hefty that they would need a space shuttle to lift it off the land. All they're good for is earth moving and they go broke with every missile test like today. Only thing keeping them on the face of the earth is their viciity to and friendship with China, which isn't what it used to be either.

keeponhurling

I wonder what would be the threshold where Japan would actually respond militarily ?

It's that dilemma of deterrence.

Don't want to cause something bigger, but don't want to give NK the green light to keep doing this sort of thing. If I was a Japanese resident, I'd imagine I'd be pretty concerned. If somebody is aiming missiles in your general direction, things can easily go wrong.

dxhound2005

Best not to upset the status quo. We don't want millions of Korean refugees arriving in Ireland. When despotic regimes are forced out, this is the modern outcome.

Dufflecoat Fanny

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119699045#Comment_119699045

Missing the point completely. They have demonstrated that they can hit anywhere inside the range of yesterdays missile with a nuclear weapon. Wake Island is within the range. Any carrier fleet is also in danger.

StrawbsM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119700253#Comment_119700253

USS Ronald Reagan is in the area too as it’s on training exercises with Japanese and South Korea navy.

AMKC

That Kim Jong un lad must be an attention whore. Only thing is he does not have all the media around laughing at his every stupid action like Trump did.

zg3409

Potentially these are rational actions.

He wants free aid and his enemies to stay away. Waving a nuke and the ability to deliver it means he may not end up like Ukraine.

It's likely the missile had no explosive or maybe a small safety charge in case it's heading for a populated area. Worst case if it did hit a city it's unlikely to do much damage even in one piece. It's mostly over water most of the time and going over Japan is a "bonus"

Typically they track these after launch and can self destruct if any way off course. Remember he claims he got these into orbit before so you would expect some level of sophistication even if using gps.

The Americans also track these launches carefully, to gain knowledge on their ability and possibly counter actions such as how to jam or interrupt guidance.

It's mainly a political act, and no sign Kim or North Korea is imploding any time soon.

Hotblack Desiato

Of course it had no warhead. Jeez. It was a test.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119699558#Comment_119699558

Really? 🙄

Vlad ticks all of those boxes, and the last one a few thousand times over - and his ones work.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119700253#Comment_119700253

"aim in the vague direction of" is not a synonym for "hit".

Designing missiles is hard.

Designing accurate missiles is very very hard.

Ten of Swords

Moved to CA, I think it's a better fit here

Dufflecoat Fanny

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119700890#Comment_119700890

This was a distance test not accuracy test. Who's to say the next one can't land where they want. Would you like to live next door to a despot playing angry birds with ICBMs?

Yurt2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119702258#Comment_119702258

Heartening to hear you have such faith in the engineering prowess of the Korean People's Army.

If General Choi and his band of Kim Il Sung University educated engineers forget to carry the 1 and a missile hits a population centre in Honshu, we're all in for a world of sh*t. North Korea has a mutual defence treaty with China, and Japan has a mutual defence treaty with the USA.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119701349#Comment_119701349

They're many years away from having anything vaguely useful as a weapon. Bluff and bluster so eagerly swallowed by some here, just the same as the brand of bluff and bluster emanating from Moscow. It's all a bit odd.

Dufflecoat Fanny

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119702715#Comment_119702715

I hope you don't work with anything got to do with risk assessment with that cavalier attitude. Regardless of what you may think of NKs capabilities there is a an obvious risk now no matter how unlikely that they could land a missile in a city nuclear or not.

Should a few dozen people die first before that fat little despot is neutered. It's any countries right and duty to step in and prevent any further attacks

retalivity

Im currently in Seoul, theres not much panic here at the moment, just the usual shrug of the shoulders. This happens every time SK & US have their military drills, and this is the first time in 3 years due to covid. Japan are parricipating this time, hence the shot across their bows. Its all politics, "give me respect/aid/whatever and i will stop", etc. If NK were stupid enough to atamtack SK or Japan, dont think that would even force china/russia in to help them deal with the aftermath

Pissy Missy

Just reported that another missile has been fired, I wonder how much it costs each time

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119706901#Comment_119706901

Sky reporting now they have fired 2...

https://news.sky.com/story/north-korea-fires-another-ballistic-missile-says-japan-12713166

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119706901#Comment_119706901

The cost to feed 50,000 North Koreans for a year. Roughly.

Dufflecoat Fanny

Yanks are going to park a carrier fleet near it now

Atlantic Dawn

Another missile fired tonight...

https://news.sky.com/story/north-korea-says-it-has-test-fired-cruise-missiles-which-hit-target-1-240-miles-away-12719094

nigeldaniel

Time for Japan to test-fire a few rockets in the North's direction.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/05/politics/us-north-korea-response/index.html

Yurt2

I suppose North Korea firing ballistic missiles over Honshu is the US at the old warmongering lark again.

Tonesjones

Weak White House is to blame for increasingly brazen North Korean missile launches.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119742180#Comment_119742180

Warmongering nutjob in charge of North Korea is to blame for increasingly brazen North Korean missile launches.

Sometimes it's as simple as it appears.

nigeldaniel

There is nothing weak about the white house response. In fact, if they did more the same people would complain about that too. At present, I doubt those North Korean missiles have any guidance system worth a dam, and they just fire them in a direction till they run of off fuel. I would say, if 'Kim Jin the Little' did an Atom bomb test in full view of the world, the response would be much sterner. I still doubt, however; they have a full-functioning nuclear weapon of any note.