The end of the world is near....... what Yacht will you build?

[wmonastra]

Hay Frosty.... Im from New Zealand not Indonesia lol..... but i do hear it is a nice place

[mydauphin]

May be the nut has a secret weapon....lol...

NKorea threatens US; world anticipates missile


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By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jun 24, 8:51 am ET
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days.
Off China's coast, a U.S. destroyer was tailing a North Korean ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons to Myanmar in what could be the first test of U.N. sanctions passed to punish the nation for an underground nuclear test last month.
The Kang Nam left the North Korean port of Nampo a week ago with the USS John S. McCain close behind. The ship, accused of transporting banned goods in the past, is believed bound for Myanmar, according to South Korean and U.S. officials.
The new U.N. Security Council resolution requires member states to seek permission to inspect suspicious cargo. North Korea has said it would consider interception a declaration of war and on Wednesday accused the U.S. of seeking to provoke another Korean War.
"If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will ... wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all," the official Korean Central News Agency said.
The warning came on the eve of the 59th anniversary of the start of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula in state of war.
The U.S. has 28,500 troops in South Korea to protect against an outbreak of hostilities.
Tensions have been high since North Korea launched a long-range rocket in April and then conducted its second underground atomic test on May 25.
Reacting to U.N. condemnation of that test, North Korea walked away from nuclear disarmament talks and warned it would fire a long-range missile.
North Korea has banned ships from the waters off its east coast starting Thursday through July 10 for military exercises, Japan's Coast Guard said.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday that the North may fire a Scud missile with a range of up to 310 miles (500 kilometers) or a short-range ground-to-ship missile with a range of 100 miles (160 kilometers) during the no-sail period.
A senior South Korean government official said the no-sail ban is believed connected to North Korean plans to fire short- or mid-range missiles. He spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.
U.S. defense and counterproliferation officials in Washington said they also expected the North to launch short- to medium-range missiles. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.
South Korea will expedite the introduction of high-tech unmanned aerial surveillance systems and "bunker-buster" bombs in response to North Korea's provocations, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper said, citing unidentified ruling party members.
Meanwhile, a flurry of diplomatic efforts were under way to try getting North Korea to return to disarmament talks.
Russia's top nuclear envoy, Alexei Borodavkin, said after meeting with his South Korean counterpart that Moscow is open to other formats for discussion since Pyongyang has pulled out of formal six-nation negotiations.
In Beijing, top U.S. and Chinese defense officials also discussed North Korea. U.S. Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy was heading next to Tokyo and Seoul for talks.
South Korea has proposed high-level "consultations" to discuss North Korea with the U.S., Russia, China and Japan.

[masalai]

So Frosty, where is everybody (apart from our token NZlndr?), all the bases are loaded and I am not writing to myself (I hope?)...

The markets seem to be happily playing with themselves and going nowhere.

My boat is progressing nicely (uninfluenced by snide remarks).

Manie and the saffas must be feverishly building, or something, as no tits or blonds offered for consideration as crew, and no new dirty, (or otherwise), jokes?

Frosty is not driveling:?

I am not posting much "economics" news (as there is not any worthy of copy&paste effort)...

Heinz, Bergalia, Safie, and a host of others have returned to sanity and left this asylum, so is this the end - leave without even a wimper? what happened to the big bang theory? - **** this sounds like learners level drivel.... WTF?

[masalai]

The dieing rantings of a mad man in N Korea is not new news... Interdiction must occur before Burma is reached (or goes past India), and in the event of further stupidity from N.K., I am sure USA will retaliate any stupid attempt with a barrage of "starwars stuff" against an overly ambitious long range missile, and severe strike of neutralization with the implicit OK from all other parties (make lots of condemnatory speeches but acknowledging there was no other real option against a madman)....

[Boston]

you pegged that one Mas
the usa has a military space shuttle program that runs a flight about every week or two
with a payload estimated at about 25 tons
anyone really think that the country that is trying to change the international agreement concerning the ban on weapons in space
has no weapons in space

why do you think all of a sudden it was ok to sell off the industrial complex
because manufacturing is no longer relevant to national security when kinetic weapons are already established on hardened space platforms poised in geosynchronous orbits above key manufacturing areas
the national space commands logo reads "masters of space"
the USA has the ability to shut them down with nothing more than a few tons of lead dropped from a sufficient height
therefor industry is free to move to the country willing to sell its people for the lowest price
nice eh
that mad man is just an excuse

[wmonastra]

""the usa has a military space shuttle program that runs a flight about every week or two
with a payload estimated at about 25 tons
anyone really think that the country that is trying to change the international agreement concerning the ban on weapons in space
has no weapons in space""

Does any budding astronomer have any proof of this?? I mean i had no idea that the go to space that often... we dont get that type of news that often over here, who's to say that NASA etc dont have there own ark in the heavens above??? readying themselves for the impending doom..

I may need a hand on my ark, free berths for any helpers

[mydauphin]

Originally Posted by Boston

you pegged that one Mas
the usa has a military space shuttle program that runs a flight about every week or two
with a payload estimated at about 25 tons
anyone really think that the country that is trying to change the international agreement concerning the ban on weapons in space
has no weapons in space

why do you think all of a sudden it was ok to sell off the industrial complex
because manufacturing is no longer relevant to national security when kinetic weapons are already established on hardened space platforms poised in geosynchronous orbits above key manufacturing areas
the national space commands logo reads "masters of space"
the USA has the ability to shut them down with nothing more than a few tons of lead dropped from a sufficient height
therefor industry is free to move to the country willing to sell its people for the lowest price
nice eh
that mad man is just an excuse

A governor can't even hide his emails, and we have space shuttle taking off every week. We wish! Unfortunately, what you see is what you get now a days. The US is a country too weak emotionally for the hard fights and too weak financial to solve anything.

[masalai]

And the "moneycontrollers" hovering around inside the FED building are REAPING in HUGE profits at the expense of all the hard working usanians.... You citizens better wake up soon or be rudely wakened by your new slave master.... **** do you need a lick in the testicles to waken? - - Cocaine or speed will NOT help...

And these people are NOT the enemy, just like me pissed off at being ripped off and "collateral damage" of the greedy bastards of MoneyControllers inside the FED and its major shareholders the key banks of Wall St http://financialsense.com/editorials...2009/0625.html see also on one of these banks - theft and lies = profit? http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/ed...2009/0625.html

[wmonastra]

I sense abit of hostility in your tone there Mas

Is it really that bad??? or are we (as in Kiwis at the bottom of the world) so far away we don't really get to see any of this unless we sign up to CNN???

Ähh, after some weeks of absence I must say this thread is on a road to decay to the drivel thread # 199, part 5.

[wmonastra]

i have to agree with you on that one Apex1 , why do people get so distracted from the original thread all the time???

Originally Posted by wmonastra

i have to agree with you on that one Apex1 , why do people get so distracted from the original thread all the time???

Human nature. I was not argueing, just get theyr foolish tails up a bit.

Regards
Richard

[wmonastra]

But it is very common on this and other sites,

W

Unfortunately yes, but this is one of the most professoinal ones and that makes a serious visitor a hard time to divide the good from the drivel.

[wmonastra]

Anyway, So how is your boat plans coming along? I start building mine in 2 weeks