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Is this a product by the War Room of Pentagon to Instill fear ?

Question by rate p: Is this a product by the War Room of Pentagon to Instill fear ?
Pentagon launches its China-threat campaign again, It has done that just about every year for past 10 years..

The problem is that the world, in that ten-year span, did not see a single China’ fleet (they even could not build a aircraft-carrier) cruising at the doorstep of other sovereign nations. Neither have we seen China warships stationed or sailed on a permanent basis, along the important sea channels connecting the oceans.

On the contrast, it is none other than the US, who has done exactly that! From land to air, from sea to space, the dominance and omnipotence are unmistakably of the US
http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080303/NATION/507590403/1001

Best answer:

Answer by desertviking_00
Give me a break! In 1991 I wrote to the two Senators from my State to ask them for help in checking out the reality of the CSS-5,”Dragon 2000″ intermediate range missile which the Chinese were deploying at eight different launch sites to “blanket” all of East and South Asia under a nuclear umbrella. The State Department in that administration didn’t even acknowledge the existence of such a weapons system and outright lied to one of my Senators in their reply. Fortunately, the Defense Intelligence Agency told my other Senator the truth and confirmed what I had heard discussed on several English language short wave radio broadcasts of different nations in Asia and the Pacific.
I also recognize that China’s military history since August of 1949 does not show a pattern of their extending outside of their borders with any sort of aggression. But, that does not forgo the possibility of them acting differently in the future.
The Pentagon has to deal, on a daily basis, with the scenario of “worst case first”. I’m sure the leadership of the PLA does the same and that the civilian leadership of both nations would view with disdain if their senior military staffs didn’t carry out such tasks.
If there is one guiding principle behind this activity in the U.S. military command it flows from something once said by Dean Rusk when he served as Secretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: “Never forget. While we are asleep, one half the world is up to some kind of mischief”.

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So, 1st June 2012! I listed all the stuff other people did this day, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

Question by Mr. marsHmallow: So, 1st June 2012! I listed all the stuff other people did this day, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
All the things that happened on 1 June from 1970 – 2009 [no space] what are you going to do?
Source: http://www.historyorb.com/events/june/1

1970 – Soyuz 9 launched into Earth orbit for 18 days
1979 – Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier
1979 – Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1979 – Wings release “Old Siam, Sir”
1979 – Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power.
1980 – 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
1980 – ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
1980 – Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif
1980 – Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship
1980 – Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run
1980 – Ted Turner’s Cable News Network begins broadcasting
1982 – Rickey Henderson is fastest to reach 50 stolen bases in a year
1984 – Douglas H Mitchell, QC of Calgary becomes 6th CFL Commissioner
1984 – KWK-AM in St Louis MO changes call letters to KGLD
1984 – Netherlands’ Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
1984 – Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg
1985 – “Just A Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody” by David Lee Roth hits #12
1985 – Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwicks cricket
1986 – 40th Tony Awards: I’m Not Rappaport & Mystery of Edwin Drood win
1987 – Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530)
1988 – “Les Miserables,” opens at Shubert Theatre, LA
1988 – “Morton Downey Jr Show,” debuts in TV syndication
1988 – Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2
1989 – 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator
1989 – Robin Givens & Mike Tyson granted final divorce in NJ
1990 – “Cemetery Club” closes at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1990 – Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 – Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland for 1st time since 1974
1990 – Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2,900.97
1991 – Roseanne Arnold & Tom Arnold wed again, they divorced later
1992 – America West Arena opens in Phoenix
1992 – E Lamps (20 year lightbulb) introduced
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike TysonHeavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson 1992 – Snowfall in Colorado
1992 – Stanley Cup: Pittsburgh Penguins sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
1993 – Brooklyn NY begins recycling
1993 – Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as anchors of CBS Evening News
1993 – Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army
1993 – Melchior Ndadaye elected pres of Burundi
1994 – FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts
1994 – Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery
1994 – Guns n Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai
1995 – 68th National Spell Bee: Justin Tyler Carroll wins spelling xanthosis
1995 – Rangers’ Kenny Rogers scoreless inning streak ends after 39
1996 – MTV Movie Awards
1996 – Sony does not renew lease on megatron in Times Square
1997 – 10th Children’s Miracle Network Telethon raises $ 5,400,186
1997 – 1st NY Women Film Festival opens
1997 – 51st Tony Awards: Titanic & Last Night of Ballyhoo win
1997 – Ameritech Senior Golf Open
1997 – Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Michelob Light Classic
1997 – Donovan Bailey beats Michael Johnson in 150m race
1997 – Heartland LPGA Classic
1997 – LA Dodger Wilton Guerrero’s bat breaks, revealing it is corked
1997 – Vijay Singh wins Golf Memorial at Muirfield Village CC, 14 under par
1997 – Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in Bolivia.
2000 – The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.
2001 – Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his family during dinner.
2001 – Dolphinarium massacre: an Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
2003 – The People’s Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.
2005 – The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
2005 – The longest oil/natural gas explosion in the Houston, Texas area occurs in Crosby, Texas. The drill was owned by the Louisiana Oil and Gas Company.
2007 – Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.
2007 – Smoking is banned from United Kingdom’s public places.
2008 – A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies, such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour.
2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew were killed.
2009 – General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.

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Answer by Regan
celebrate my brother going to brazil for 2 weeks!!!!!

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JOKE TIME……..READ THIS…..?

Question by : JOKE TIME……..READ THIS…..?
* RECENTLY CHINA AIRPORTS WERE CLOSED DUE TO HEAVY FOG

…….. LATER IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT RAJANIKANTH WAS SMOKING IN INDIA !!!!!!!!!!

* RAJANIKANTH DID HIS KG FROM SEVEN DIFFERENT PLACES..TODAY THOSE PLACES ARE KNOWN AS IITs!!!!!!

* GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PAYS TAX TO RAJANIKANTH FOR LIVING IN INDIA !!!!!!!

* DEFINITION OF SOLAR ECLIPSE:

WHEN RAJANIKANTH STARES AT SUN WITH ANGER, SUN HIDES BEHIND THE MOON. THIS GREATEST PHENOMENA IS CALLED SOLAR ECLIPSE………!!!!!

* RAJANIKANTH WOKE UP ONE DAY AND DECIDED HE SHOULD SHARE ATLEAST ONE PERCENT OF HIS KNOWLEDGE WITH THE WORLD……

THUS………………….. THE GOOGLE WAS BORN!!!!

* THINK WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF RAJANI WOULD HAVE BORN 150 YEARS AGO..?????

BRITISH WOULD HAVE FOUGHT FOR INDEPENDANCE….

* BEST RAJANI JOKE!!!!!!

EVEN GHAJINI REMEMBERS RAJANI!!!!

* AN EMAIL WAS SENT FROM MYSORE TO BANGALORE

RAJANIKANTH STOPPED IT AT MANDYA ….

* WHY DO EARTHQUAKE OCCURS?????

BECAUSE AT THAT TIME RAJANIKANTH’S MOBILE IS ON VIBRATION MODE!!!!!!!!!

* ONCE RAJANIKANTH BUNKED A WHOLE DAY IN SCHOOL…..!

SINCE THEN THAT DAY IS KNOWN AS

…………….

…………..

SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

* THE PYRAMIDS IN EGYPT ARE ACTUALLY…………………………..…

………. RAJANIKANTHS PRIMARY SCHOOL CRAFT PROJECTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

* BREAKING NEWS:

ISRO DOES NOT EXISTS ANYMORE…..!!

RAJANIKANTH PURCHASED ALL THE ROCKETS FOR DIWALI CELEBRATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

* WHY DID RAJANI BUY AN ACRE OF LAND WTH 4 WELLS ON EACH CORNER?????

………………….. TO PLAY CARROM!!!!!!

* BEFORE TOM CRUISE, RAJANI WAS APPROACHED FOR THE MOVIE MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, BUT RAJANI REFUSED AS HE FOUND THE TITLE INSULTING..

* .Rajnikanths next project. Titanic in Tamil. Climax revised. Both survive. Rajnikant swims across the Atlantic Ocean with heroine in one hand and… Titanic in the other.

DID U LIKED THIS…….

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Answer by We Я Virgins
DILDOS

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Q&A: Are you bored? Take this Survey!?

Question by Live.: Are you bored? Take this Survey!?
Bored?

1) Black & White or Colored Photos?
2) Summer or Winter?
3) Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace?
4) Tea or Water?
5) Apple Juice or Orange Juice?
6) Yahoo! or MSN?
7) Country or City?
8) Rodeos or Rich City Parties?
9) Italy or China?
10) Earth or Sun?
11) Non-Painted finger nails or Painted?
12) Green or Pink?
13) Short Shorts or Basketball Shorts?
14) Football or Basketball?
15) Sleeping or being awake?
16) Computer or t.v?
17) Wavy or straight hair?
18) Blondes or Brunettes?
19) Beach or Mountains?
20) Get advice or Give Advice?
21) North America or South America?
22) California or New York?
23) Fly or Drive?
24) Carribean Cruise or Hiking?
25) Nurse or Teacher?
26) Pei Wei or Carrabbas?
27) McDonalds or Wendy’s?
28) Brown eyes or Green eyes?
29) Tall or Short?
30) Athletic or Goth?

Best answer:

Answer by ~*!Oh EM gEE it’S bEi!*~
1) Black & White or Colored Photos?-both
2) Summer or Winter?-spring…summer
3) Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace?-myspace
4) Tea or Water?-tea..sweet
5) Apple Juice or Orange Juice?-apple
6) Yahoo! or MSN?-yahoo!
7) Country or City?-both..city
8) Rodeos or Rich City Parties?-city parties
9) Italy or China?-italy
10) Earth or Sun?-what? earth
11) Non-Painted finger nails or Painted?-painted
12) Green or Pink?-pink
13) Short Shorts or Basketball Shorts?-short shorts
14) Football or Basketball?-football
15) Sleeping or being awake?-both..either
16) Computer or t.v?-both..computer
17) Wavy or straight hair?-straight
18) Blondes or Brunettes?-brunettes
19) Beach or Mountains?-beach
20) Get advice or Give Advice?-both..give
21) North America or South America?-both..north
22) California or New York?-cali..either
23) Fly or Drive?-drive
24) Carribean Cruise or Hiking?-Caribbean* cruise
25) Nurse or Teacher?=as a job?-nurse
26) Pei Wei or Carrabbas?-what are those? idk
27) McDonalds or Wendy’s?-Wendy’s
28) Brown eyes or Green eyes?-green, but mine are brown
29) Tall or Short?-medium
30) Athletic or Goth?-neither…athletic
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What if your boyfriend did this?

Question by : What if your boyfriend did this?
I’ve been dating this guy for more than a year. A few days before our one year anniversary, we had a fight and broke up, but TWO days later, we got back together. one of the things i was very specific about was, if he had been with another girl while we were broken up, i needed to know, because if that was the case, i would not want to get back together with him at all.

Now this is two months down the road after the break up, and i got a call from this woman looking for him. Turns out she’s a prostitutes from china. When i asked him about it, he finally admitted that in the 2 days we were broken up, he had gone out and gotten THREE whores, two together the first time, and another one the next day which he took out on a day cruise.

Now, when we were arguing about this, his point is, technically he wasn’t cheating cuz we were broken up, so whatever he does is none of my business, and he only lied about it cuz he loves me and wanted to get back together with me, and if he’d told me the truth, i would never have gotten back with him.
My point is, i could not have meant that much to him to go to whores after one year with me, so i don’t understand why after dropping his whore off he would suddenly be so in love with me he saw the need to lie to me to get me back.

urgghh really need some advice… is it fair of me to break it off with him for being with other women while we were not together… and for lying about it…

thanks

Best answer:

Answer by swoddy
he needed to tell you the truth. and he needs to get checked out for STDs. 3 whores. You have NO idea what a mess they might be. I don’t know if it’s enough to break up over. But I know it’ll drive you crazy because it was only TWO days. The fact that he couldn’t keep it in his pants for 2 days speaks volume about his character. It’s all up to you though. Good luck

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Q&A: The Pacific Ring of Fire is an area of volcanoes and earthquakes. What are two countries located in this regio?

Question by : The Pacific Ring of Fire is an area of volcanoes and earthquakes. What are two countries located in this regio?
1.Which of the following is one of the main rivers in Southeast Asia?
Yangtze
Mekong
Ganges
Yellow
2.The Pacific Ring of Fire is an area of volcanoes and earthquakes. What are two countries located in this region
Japan
India
Korea
Malaysia
3.What two major rivers make up the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
Brahmaputra
Ganges
Indus
Gangrene
4.Which of the following bodies of water does not act as a border for Japan?
Sea of Japan
Philippine Sea
Pacific Ocean
Bay of Bengal
5.Air pollution was a major problem for this city as it hosted the Summer Olympics.
Tokyo
Manila
Beijing
New Delhi
6.Two of the nations who managed to gain their freedom from Japan following World War II were _____.
India
Indonesia
Bangladesh
Taiwan
8.Pakistan and Bangladesh came from this country.
Nepal
China
India
Japan
9.These three nations interacted throughout their history, mixing cultures.
Japan
Indonesia
Philippines
Singapore
Korea
China
10.Which of the following was an important time in Japanese history?
Gojoseon
Ming
Heian
Maurya
11.The Silk Road enabled these two ancient empires to greatly prosper.
Taiwan
Thailand
China
India
12.Which of the following nations is dealing with severe coral reef damage?
Vietnam
Bhutan
Maldives
Laos
13.This nation has established preserves to protect the endangered tiger.
Japan
Myanmar
Bangladesh
India
14The arrival of warships from this nation forced Japan to give up its policy of seclusion.
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
Spain.

Best answer:

Answer by Deep Shadow
1 Ganges
2 japan and malasiya
3 ganges and brahmputra
4 bay of bangal
5 tokyo
6 indonesia and taiwan
8 india
9 japan
10 ming
11 china to thailand
12 bhutan maldive
13 india
14 soviet union

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Is this a good bucket list so far?

Question by : Is this a good bucket list so far?
1000 things to do before I die…..                                                              
1.Visit all 50 states 
2.Read 1,000 books
3.See 1,000 movies 
4.Walk on the great wall of china 
5.Climb a real real rock wall
6.Visit all 7 continents 
7. Ride the fastest roller coaster 
8. Sky dive 
9. Get married 
10. Have kids 
11. Go on a cruise 
12.  See the amazon 
13.hold my breath for a minute 
14. Learn to juggle 
15. Win big in Vegas 
16.take a picture pushing the leaning tower Of pisa 
17. Be on T.V 
18. Scuba dive 
19.  Boat down the mississippi river 
20. Speak 4 languages
21. Be an extra in a movie 
 22. Be in a flash mob 
23. Get my drivers licensee 
24. Learn to play an instrument 
25. Be in a music video 
26. Do a handstand on the ground and walk
27.  Invent something 
28.  Help out at a disaster site
29.  Bungee jump
30. Zip line 
31. See. Free elephant 
32. Eat a scorpion 
33. Spend a whole day in bed 
34.  Finish a 1,000 piece puzzle 
35. Visit my cousins in Italy 
36. Run a marathon 
37. Beat my dad’s marathon time 
38. Do a iron man (Hawaii ) 
39. Graduate college 
40.  Helicopter over grand canyon 
41. Ski in Colorado 
42.  Live on the land for a week ….. Month 
43. Get straight a’s
44.Use no electricity for a week
45. Finish a rubix cube 
46. Surf 
47.  Build a tree house
48.  Do 100 push ups without stopping 
49. Be in a protest 
50. Make varsity lacrosse 
51.  Go caving again 
52. Hike the edge line in az (spritaul mountain) 
52. Lift 200 pounds 
53. Do a back flip on a trampoline 
54. Meet a president 
55.  Win concert tickets 
56. Hitch hike 
57.  Go to the dead sea 
58.  Eat a whole large pizza by myself 
59. Look for a treasure chest 
60.  Take a picture with the new water fountains at Fremont 
61. Drive cross country 
62.  Knit my own shirt 
63.  Vs a pro in a sport 
64. Teepee a house
65. Ride a motorcycle 
67.  Eat a fish eye
68. Stay awake for 24 hours
69.  Get food from a plant I planted 
70. Play football in the rain 
71. Go skinny dipping 
72. Go streaking 
73. Sleep on water 
74. Break open a coconut with a rock
75. Send a message in a bottle 
76. Bob for apples
77. Eat at a 5 star restaurant 
78.  Blow up a car
79. Get 100 dollars in change 
80.  Not talk for a full day
81. Be the person to break open the piñata 
82. Throw a lacrosse ball across the length of the field 
83. Go to a super bowl 
84. Burn a picture of someone I hate
85. Donate blood 
86. Ride a mechanical bull
88. Go to jerry springer 
89.   See the pyramids 
90. Hitch hike 
91. Email mr.fennel at age 25 (Tim fennel) 
92.   Watch the ball drop in NYC 
93.  See Stonehenge  
94. Make a fire from starch 
95. Have a solar panel or wind mill
96. Cut down a Christmas tree 
97. Do something like ninja warrior 
98.  Stay off Facebook for two weeks 
99.   See the northern lights 
100. Swim under a real water fall
101. Take a 365 day challenge 
102.  Make a million dollars 
103.  Get my braces off 
104. Buy a suit 
105. Be on survivor or a show like it 
106.  Stand in four states at once 
107.  Ride a hot air ballon 
108.  Swim in all of the great lakes 
109.  Climb the stairs to the top of the Willis tower 
110. Swim the English 
111. Go fire walking 
112. Go zorbing 
113. Watch a rocket launch live 
114. Have a food fight 
115. Volunteer at a soup kitchen 
116. Quit a job 
117. Go to a place and ask for the use
118. White water rafting 
119. Make a difference in at least one persons life
120. Watch turtles hatch and run for the sea 
121. Be a vegetarian for a year 
122. Go to the olpymics watch or be in them
123. Kiss a stranger on the street 
124. Touch an iceberg 
125. Change a babies diaper 
126. Watch a meteor shower 
127. Midnight walk on the beach 
128. Buy a stranger a meal at a restaurant 
129. 

What else can I add ? Thanks

 

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Answer by Paralyzer Z
Needs more Chuck Norris.

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Q&A: Will anyone take this?

Question by j: Will anyone take this?
Your boyfriend that you’ve dated for three years proposes while y’all are on a date on a dinner cruise ship!!!! You decide to marry at 1.__________ and honeymoon in 2.___________.

Two years after you get married, you have a little girl. You name her with the meaning PRETTY and she is just that!!! She has shiny beach-blond hair and huge blue eyes. What is her name? 3.
http://www.gentlejourneysbirthing.com/assets/images/sleeping_baby.jpg

Your little girl is now 2 and wants a baby sister. She gets 3 baby sisters!!! 4.You name them after celebrities and their children.
http://images.veer.com/IMG/PIMG/IPP/IPP0018813_P.JPG

When your first daughter is 5 and your triplets are 3, you and your husband see an advertisement for an orphanage in China. The little one-year-old girl you adopt has soft black hair and brown eyes. You name her with a Chinese first and a unisex middle.
http://www.beehiveco-op.com/brandimages/square-knits-2.jpg

After your oldest is 7, the triplets are 5, and your adopted girl is 3, your husband really wants a son!!! Y’all have twins, a boy and a girl. They both have brown hair and green eyes. Your son’s name is his Daddy’s middle, and you name his middle after your father. Your daughter is the same with her mother’s middle name and her grandma’s .
http://z.about.com/d/multiples/1/0/-/a/blgal1110.jpg
Congrats on your big family!!!

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Answer by ♥Kαуlee♥ (Hello Santa Baby)ツ
1. Our Church
2. Honeymoon in England
3. Caroline Ruby (Caroline means Beautiful Woman, and I like that better than Pretty)
4. Katherine Sophia, Eva Madeleine, & Lucy Elizabeth (after Katharine Hepburn, Eva Longoria, & Lucille Ball)
5. Maylin Addison
6. Benjamin Riley & Lynette Rose (my middle name is Lynn, but I don’t like that as a first name)

So I have:
Caroline, Katey, Eva, Lucy, Ben, Maylin & Lynette[♥]

This was fun! Can you make another one, please : )
♥кαуℓєє ℓуηη

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Can you help me with this poem? is correctly punctuated? is it right?

Question by smart girl: Can you help me with this poem? is correctly punctuated? is it right?
Deep down, beneath years
Of elegant clothes and food
A shrewd, vain girl’s story hides
Raging with jealous
She neglects the consequences
The result appeared to her before the senses tingled in her small brain
Molten tears ran because of the deaths
Like the floods in the bloody river Yangtze
Nowhere to go
No one to talk to
The live of the poor girl is betrayed
No one thought that this envious girl’s life would end up in the dumpster!
One heartbreaking person
One heartbreaking choice
can you say what grade I can get? the quality?

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Answer by Regina
you dont need the exclamation mark after dumpster and make it jealousy and it will make more sense and LIVE needs to be LIFE

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What’s Obama going to do about this?

Question by Maryn Janine L: What’s Obama going to do about this?
Officials: Missiles show N. Korea skills improving
By KELLY OLSEN – 31 minutes ago

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s weekend missile launches show the communist country is improving its capability and accuracy and are a cause for concern, officials said Sunday.

North Korea launched seven ballistic missiles into waters off its east coast Saturday in a show of military firepower that defied U.N. resolutions and drew international condemnation and concern. It also fired four short-range missiles Thursday believed to be cruise missiles.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency — citing a South Korean government source it did not identify — reported that five of the seven ballistic missiles landed in the same area, indicating their accuracy has improved.

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said North Korea’s capabilities were getting better.

“If you look at their most recent efforts, the most worrying thing is not their current capacity in terms of distance or scope but how they have improved,” he told the Nine Network on Sunday.

“We have seen improvements regrettably in their technology and their approach,” he said, emphasizing the latest missile tests were clearly a provocative act aimed at the U.S.

Saturday’s launches on U.S. Independence Day appeared to be a slap at Washington as it moves to enforce U.N. as well as its own sanctions against the isolated regime for its May 25 nuclear test.

An official, speaking on condition of anonymity citing department policy, said the Defense Ministry was investigating the launches and it would take about a week to complete an analysis.

He also said no signs of additional missile launches had been detected, but more were possible given North Korea warned ships to stay away from the area through July 10.

North Korea’s state news agency did not mention the launches. In Washington, the White House had no immediate comment.

South Korea said Saturday that the missiles likely flew more than 250 miles (400 kilometers), apparently landing in waters between the Korean peninsula and Japan.

South Korea and Japan both condemned the launches, with Tokyo calling them a “serious act of provocation.” Britain and France issued similar statements.

Russia and China, both allies of North Korea, expressed concern over an “escalation of tension in the region,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said Saturday in a statement after a meeting in Moscow.

Separately, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in a statement that Beijing “hopes all parties will keep calm and restrained and jointly safeguard the overall peace and stability in this region.”

The North has engaged in a series of acts this year widely seen as provocative. It fired a long-range rocket it said was a satellite in early April, and in late May it carried out its second underground nuclear test following the first in late 2006.

The country has also stoked tensions with rival South Korea and last month threatened “thousand-fold” military retaliation against the U.S. and its allies if provoked.

Yonhap also reported that the North is believed to have spent between $ 34 million and $ 46 million in test-firing the seven missiles Saturday. It cited no source.

South Korea’s Defense Ministry said it cannot confirm the report.

Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim, Kwang-tae Kim and Jae-soon Chang in Seoul, Gillian Wong in Beijing, Tomoko A. Hosaka in Tokyo, Jill Lawless in London, Elaine Ganley in Paris, Mansur Mirovalev in Moscow and Lara Jakes in Washington contributed to this report.

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Answer by Nathan
I’m from Alaska, and I’m convinced he’s going to use every word he can think of … they are derisive, dismissive and on and on. But Obama’s all talk because he’s a wuss and probably doesn’t even believe America is worth defending. I’m convinced he’s going to get us folks up here nuked.

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