More Analysis On The Korean Rocket Launch

@Babboa: Nah, Obama will save us.

jbrandonf likes pie. And Dreamcast

@compuguy1088: The jig is up for North Korea the moment war resumes, and the North Koreans know it. They know they can hurt South Korea and Japan pretty badly, but that the end result will be crushing defeat. So all the saber rattling is a big bluff hoping no one ever calls them on it.

However, the threat that NK might sell its nuclear weapons capability to other rogue states, or terrorists, is a major problem.

@AnonJr: Yeah. Jason Chen seems to be too confident.

nikaru

@MrBlahBlah: Yeah, we were going to Hawaii until my mom read about this a while back. Now we're going to the Virgin Islands.

stkr2008

@MinervaAutolycus: Maybe that IS how LOST ends . . .

@Babboa: Funny, that's when my 401(k) fully vests. Coincidence? I think not. Meh!

Magic Beans? Sure, I'll Buy Some!!

If NK explodes a nuke in California's atmosphere, the air pollution will keep it from hitting the ground. Now, nuking Hawaii -- that's the tragedy. How will we ever know how LOST ends?

MinervaAutolycus

Given their past success rate with the Taepodong-2 rockets (the ones with the potential to reach the US) I'm feeling pretty safe here in Washington State.

My guess would be that they wouldn't risk loosing one of their nukes on a missile which currently has a 100% failure rate by trying to target the US Mainland. Far more likely that they would target our allies in the region, that means Japan and South Korea would be in the most danger.

something_unique_and_descriptive

@GustavoSM: Antartica? Just wait until the Australians and New Zealanders begin a blood feud over ice ownership. Or wait Argentina might try to invade something owned by another country that has a vastly superior military than it again, but hey just some conjectures.

Now if David Wright and Theodore A. Postol actually snuck into N. Korea & got photos themselves instead of creating this copy of a Goog search, that would be something.

heroineworshipper

@MrBlahBlah: Locals with fireworks are a bigger danger. Seriously, it's like a war zone here on the 4th. They're freakin' crazy!

@Thrubeingcool: Hes right though...the missiles are just bargaining chips for North Korea. If they actually tried to invade, they would be retaliation....

compuguy1088

It funny they can't reach us today but in 6 months or a year or 2 years then sure they can the president will still be sending strongly worded letters and calling off ship for fear of offending someone. The missile doesn't really have to reach Hawaii, Alaska or Cali just explode in the atmosphere.

@tok3ninja: Hawaii is probably safe. They might be able to hit Alaska though...it's a bigger target.

WMyers

once you look at this [www.cracked.com] you will never see NKorea the same way again.

chuuchdizzle

@jonycob: Rich countries have to start sending tons of moneys to us, Brazil.
Of course, all the money will end up in politicians pockets, so it won't help much in the defense line...

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@DeusExMach: I'd say you kicked it up to 11

Weakskills

@Kaiser-Machead: With the Zombie plague escaping containment sometime in late June or early July 2012. This timetable results in the last living human being devoured at approximately 11:59 GMT on December 31, 2011.

Blah blah blah NK will never attack us.

I am glad to see a map that accounts for the roundness of the Earth though, the last post with the big round circles was driving me nuts.

Was never worried living on the east coast meant I would get a helluva show but no immediate damage.

Jimmy From The Block

@shalegac: Normally, I would have simply said "word." but I felt in this case that it called for something more.

@russdanger: Logic doesn't hold much weight w/ the certifiably insane.

Jackhole

Well I'm glad I got to make it to HI last year, since it's going to be all radioactive n shit in the near future.

Jackhole

@tande04: It's a dictator dick-waving contest really. Methinks Kim Jong is compensating for something.

Jackhole

@DeusExMach: That deserves a PWNED of its own. Well played.

@caspianhiro: ...and the RAND corporation in an alliance with the Space-vampires are secretly replacing the flouride in your water with an even MORE psychoreactive substance to control how often you mow your lawn so you lose the Better Homes and Garden's contest in order to...

@tande04: Maybe we're playing "What Time is it Mr. Wolf?"

Skeetz

@tande04: "hmm... sweety, Hawaii's being awfully quiet over there... do you think we should go check on him?"

"I'm sure he's fine..."

@tande04: Skynet! ZOMG!

@Nick: Kim Jong Il left a flaming pile of dog crap on my doorstep the other night.

...at least I HOPE it was dog crap.

/goml

@Kaiser-Machead: I'd be more afraid if ground zero was the local Gold's Gym full of meat heads and roid ragers.. leper zombies come already half decomposed and lacking the fingers to really dig into some brains..

Skeetz

@Digital9:

@puffnstuff: Yeah that wouldn't be boy who cried wolf though.

Boy that cried wolf would be Hawaii always saying they're getting hit with nuclear weapons and not really being hit with nuclear weapons so that when they finally are we'll all ignore them.

tande04

Safe in Texas? Think again. You are being actively invaded by Mexico.

caspianhiro

He does know that we have some missiles of our own, doesn't he?

@tande04:

It could be though. He makes threats every year and never follows through. It has gotten to the point where he is just being ignored. So he may just push the red button this time to get his way.

@Kaiser-Machead: Not monkeys? I mean... it worked with landmines back in the day.

@puffnstuff: This is a boy who cries wolf situation.

Actually that doesn't really make sense here.

Its a dictator flexing his muscle situation.

tande04

Looking at this map I think I'm in the safest place anyone could be..

GustavoSM

I hope this is not a boy who cries wolf situation. That would seriously suck....... for Hawaii. Not for me though because I don't live there.

Possible in 2009? Not a snowball's chance in hell. Possible in 2019? Easily.

@Kaiser-Machead: Beware the zombocalypse! Or at least get ready the correct way.

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@Thrubeingcool: Whoa there.

Logical thoughtful statements have no place here. This is all about fear mongering and random sensationalism.

tande04

This is clearly just a scheme to destroy the economy of Hawaii by eliminating tourism, so that Kim Jong can get a cheap as hell beach condo.

D0rk

The NK regime is evil, also stupid, and they may even be crazy, but I don't think they're suicidal. The better clinical descriptor is paranoid, which means preoccupation with survival in any circumstances - even imagined ones. Thus launching an unprovoked strike on any country in their neighbourhood, all of which are nuclear armed or allied to a nuclear power, would mean immediate and massive retaliation leading to their destruction. See the whole point of having the bomb is not to set off the damn things. That's strictly last resort. Really you just want to wave them around so people take you seriously. Considering NK has nothing else going for it, they are waving them around all they can.

Thrubeingcool

@venc: Yet.

junyo

@MrBlahBlah: Best estimates predict that the leper colony in Hawaii will be ground zero for the zombie apocalypse come 2011.

Kaiser-Machead

And to make things worse for NK, you should see the rabbit they employ to test for duds, with a mallet.

Kaiser-Machead

looks like i'm safe in tx.

jonycob

@tok3ninja: You can get over you guilt by taking what I'm sure will be a cheap vaction in sunny, radioactive, Hawaii.

omyard

In Short, they cannot even reach Hawaii (?)

venc

@MrBlahBlah: No, definitely not. I'll sacrifice and go in your stead. I'll be sure to take plenty of pictures.

oompa

It just takes 1 to kill millions of people. But then again KJI is too smart to send a nuke. He's too much into his LV and Gucci to want to kill himself. He's just doing that 'NK is still a threat' biznatch so that people don't look down on his son and think he's gonna be a softie when he comes into power. Boom boom pow!

hhkim515

don't they know we're currently under a burn ban and setting off bottle rockets will probably get them a citation? darn crappy neighbors.

Nick

I just want to know if I will be ok for my vacation to Hawaii....

MrBlahBlah

"In short, they probably don't have quite as good a capability for delivering the payload as previously thought."

... we hope.

AnonJr

Fireworks can fly better than their rockets sadly. I say that now, until they tag Hawaii with one. Then I might feel guilty.

Kim Jong Illin is a mark ass trick who just got photoshop pwned.

Digital9