aside that neither did i comment what a state-system North Korea has.

And I quote,

“Newly opened Soviet archives make clear that Stalin had no plans to annex Korea, but intended to keep it from falling into unfriendly hands and preventing any single power from gaining complete control. The division at the 38th parallel may have appeared to the Soviet leader as a workmanlike balancing of interests on the peninsula. In any case, while recognizing that the United States and China would probably play a role, the Soviets remained most concerned to ensure that Japanese influence and power were eradicated and that Japan would have minimal influence in postwar Korea.” (In the Ruins of Empire p.139)

It’s the very same goal that the U.S.-led capitalist movement had – Establishing a balance of power in Europe and Asia.

I’ve already briefly explained in another thread why I don’t think we can even consider North Korea to be a socialist country: http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=9467

lol. bullshit my dear. NK was created by Stalin.

Double-fail. NK was created by Korean socialist-idealists who sided with one of the two major political ideologies that was spreading through Europe and Asia as the curtain dropped on WWII.

Stalin objected to many of the North Korean policies as the contradicted international socialist goals at the time, and he actually kept NK open to an international discussion with capitalist powers, and attacking SK was Kim Il Sung’s idea and he had to actually persuade Stalin to back the decision.

fail . NK was created by Stalin. pupet leadership? you can say it for all countries wich have got “great brother” or “aliance leader”. or should i remind you about american position in european and japanese politics. neither was SK goverment different. that until 90′ens. even now they are following american wishes against own will. or do you realy think SKoreans wanted to be in Irak and Afghanistan?

North Korea is still in a war with us. it defends itself more than half century. i think this earn some respect from yor side. and yes NKans are bunch of idiots. but you should be surprised how much idiocy is Japan and USA today. not to forget all japanese fashists and american molesters wich do live peacefuly swiming in money and power unti today.

North Korea can start this rocket. noone can stop them because NK warned the UN and other countries accord the protocol wich is usual when someone start own rockets for civil use. so is it true that if korean rocket will overfly Japan. japanese can shot it down. (until some high so much i know) question is will Japan do it and get poicon rain and chunks from this rocket or will it just watch and let it go.

NK was created by Stalin and Mao – and it’s whole puppet leadership was specifically chosen to be an idiot too stupid to put up any resistance (while deluding himself that he was gods gift to NK).

SK begged the US/UN for help when China put in 300,000 troops, and unfortunately the young SK asshats today have no clue how fast their country would be rolled over if the US/UN was ever to pull out.

I know you are forced to say such things because you know the “Great Leader” will harm you and your family if you don’t.

I understand.

I hope someday soon, you will be free.

Not nice stuff.

BTW, do the media ever explain that in general every country lauches satellites eastward (to take advantage of the rotation of the Earth for extra speed to get to orbit), and that NK, if it wants to get into orbit, doesn’t really have much choice, it’s either launch over Japan or nothing.

However, it probably does mean when they aren’t trying to get to orbit, they’re launching over Japan as rehearsal for the orbit launch, or just to be assholes.

They’re just so related.

The “700 meter fireball” figure was not an estimate of the damage created by a warhead. The rocket in question doesn’t even have a warhead.

The figure was based on the 2nd and 3rd stages not igniting upon separation from the 1st stage, so that the whole upper part of the rocket, loaded with fuel, falls ballistically and impacts somewhere in Japan. Now, since in this scenario it is going to be falling from very high up, at great speed, and is going to be fairly heavy, it stands a very good chance of piling straight in and not breaking apart and tumbling. The fuel will spray when the tanks rupture on impact, but think of a water balloon-type pattern. Inertia will keep the fuel traveling in the direction it was going prior to impact until something stops it (like the ground) and causes it to spray out in a circular or semi-circular pattern. If ignited before completely sprayed out on the surrounding countryside it is going to turn into a ball blasting outwards in all directions equally unless blocked in some direction (such as “down”) by something (such as “the Earth”).

Or maybe it’s the theoretical maximum distance for a random small pice of shrapnel which might be hot enough, in theory, to start a fire if it landed on a haystack or something?

But most likely, it’s just a number this dude pulled out of his ass.

Still, I think NK is lead by crazies, but surely they aren’t crazy enough to start actually attacking Japan with missiles?

Are they?