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Re:Iran has launched a satellite into orbit by tsally on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @02:44AM (#463670)
Along those lines: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487085,00.html

"North Korea is preparing to test fire a long range missile capable of striking the United States, according to media reports in South Korea and Japan this morning."

Re:Iran has launched a satellite into orbit by josefresco on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @09:28AM (#464017)
"although crucially it (NK) probably does not have the technology to mount a nuclear device on a long range missile"

Anyone else find that interesting?

Frankly I'm not worried about the North Koreans and their missiles. Japan might be, but I think they got it covered with enough US military tech to trounce any NK aggression.

Re:Iran has launched a satellite into orbit by electromagnetic on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @12:05PM (#464226)
I'm not worried about NK and their missiles merely because launching an object into orbit does mean you can land an object anywhere on the planet. However, there's only a handful of countries that have successfully reentered objects.

There's going to be lots of time to deal with NK before anyone has to worry about a nuke being launched. The biggest worry for any country is if NK or similar rogue country produced a Davy Crockett size nuclear device. I mean a few Davy Crocketts and you could turn a Cessna into a city eradicating weapon.

IMO we don't need to be worried about 'rogue states' with nuclear weapons. I mean there was a big ideological difference between the USA and the USSR with a lot more nuclear weapons; there's possibly a bigger ideological difference between the USA and NK, but there's potentially a single nuke in the NK arsenal, IIRC the US doubted the NK test was actually a nuclear detonation and not simply a multi-tonne load of HE to fake it, so there might not even be a single nuke in NK.

Re:Iran has launched a satellite into orbit by slater on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @05:08AM (#463775)
Fox News? Really? On HN?
Re:Iran has launched a satellite into orbit by rsheridan6 on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @07:28AM (#463888)
You can find the same story from dozens of different outlets. The BBC says the same thing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7866705.stm
Re:Iran has launched a satellite into orbit by DanielBMarkham on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @07:28AM (#463889)
Either it's news or it isn't.

This is news.

Give it a rest already.

Re:Iran has launched a satellite into orbit by josefresco on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @09:30AM (#464022)
While I generally agree, it's not always the case. News networks will drum up stories like these all the time from a "report" or "undisclosed source" to push an agenda or spice up a slow news day. Just because other new orgs pick up on it doesn't make it any more of a fact, unless they're doing their own verification which sadly I don't think is done enough.
Re:Iran has launched a satellite into orbit by jerf on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @01:00PM (#464340)
Well, then it in "not news", no? Regardless of whether it shows up on Fox or in the NYT.