North Korea Test Launched Several Missiles

Posted on July 4, 2006

Yet another update (hopefully the last):
Captain’s Quarters:

The White House only confirms five tests. Presumably the second TD-2 test was a bad call by CNN.

Update 5: Macsmind:

UPDATE: Per Fox - North Korea isn’t done yet. Reports coming in that a couple of more Scuds and another Taepodong-2 have been launched. That makes a total of six launches, the latter TD-2 at 6:31 EST. At this point I’m backing off the rubber dumming, looks more like preliminary testing of the rockets to get the delivery correct. That decidedly hightens the urgency.

Update 4: ABC is told by Tony Snow that there were only three missiles, one of which was the failed Taepodong.
Update 3: ABC is reporting four mid-range missiles were fired!
It is still unclear as to whether one missile was long range or not. Conflicting reports are coming in. NORAD is saying 4 scuds… plus the long range… but they aren’t sure about the long range one according to Fox.

Fox reports that the Taepodong failed 40 seconds after launch and that John Bolton is “urgently consulting” with UNSC members.

Update 2: A third Missile has been launched!
From Allah:

Major provocation: CNN hears from the State Department that they’ve launched the third missile — the Taepodong ICBM, capable of reaching America. Apparently there was some mechanical problem and it failed in mid-air; no details yet. The UN Security Council may convene tonight.

CNN says the timing wasn’t coincidental.

The senior State Department official said the launches were timed to coincide with the launch of the space shuttle Discovery from Florida, calling it “a provocative act designed to get attention.”…
Two senior State Department officials said Tuesday that fuel trucks had departed the site where the Taepodong-2 sat on a launch paid, indicating that a test may have been near.

Update: A second missile has been fired!!! Two missiles have been fired according to Norad! CNN thinks the second missile was also short-range.

Reports are coming in….Drudge Report has the siren up. The story is developing that North Korea has test lauched a missile. More to come.

CNN reporting: It is not the long range weapon we have been monitoring.

Tokyo by Breitbart:

North Korea test launched a missile early Wednesday morning that landed in the Sea of Japan, Japanese media reported.

North Korea launched the missile at 0332 Japan Time and it crashed into the Sea of Japan several minutes later, public broadcaster NHK reported.

NHK said Japanese government officials were trying to determine whether the missile was a long-range ballistic missile that had been readied for launch recently, or whether it was a different missile.

CNN is saying:

North Korea tested a short-range missile early Wednesday but has not fired the long-range Taepodong-2 rocket Western observers suspect has been readied for launch, U.S. sources told CNN.

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3 Responses to “North Korea Test Launched Several Missiles”

kerwin_brown on July 5th, 2006 4:57 am

The last I heard China and North Korea are allies. China is building it’s military. North Korea is playing with nukes and long range missiles. Could there be a connection?
ckleav on July 5th, 2006 7:01 am

I updated my post before I trackbacked it here, but I used the older version from my wordpad to make the trackback title and excerpt. The post now reads NORTH KOREA FIRES 6 NODONGS: TAEPODONG FALLS APART AFTER LESS THAN 40 SECONDS!
bernieg1 on July 5th, 2006 8:25 pm

I tried to trackback to you with a post containing the word V-i-a-g-r-a and I think your software kicked it back.

Here’s my post: http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/07/korea_what_rockets_d.html