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iandhr

(6,852 posts)
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 05:10 PM Jan 2013

North Korea Claims New Long Range Missile Has Ability To Fly Right Up In The Air, Not Unlike A Bird

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA—In a provocative and defiant pronouncement aimed at the United States and the U.N., North Korean officials announced Thursday that the country’s latest generation of ballistic missiles possessed the capability to fly right up into the air, much the same as a young bird or a silvery dragonfly might. “Our mighty new Unha missile will go very high, up to the skies above, not at all unlike a long-necked crane rising from the Jiandao marsh,” said vice marshal of the Korean People’s Army Hyon Yong-chol, who went on to liken the weapon’s “terrific fearsomeness” to an angered ox. “Let all nations hear these words: our missile will soar great distances like a migrating duck flying among clouds before returning to the earth with the force of 10,000 pine trees falling. Dire consequences await all who do not heed this warning!” Hyon also confirmed that North Korea would soon test another of its nuclear weapons, which he said was capable of delivering unfathomable levels of death and misery, not unlike the chronic malnutrition that afflicts roughly one-third of his nation’s children.


http://www.theonion.com/articles/north-korea-claims-new-long-range-missile-has-abil,31016/

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North Korea Claims New Long Range Missile Has Ability To Fly Right Up In The Air, Not Unlike A Bird (Original Post) iandhr Jan 2013 OP
Damn it! RandiFan1290 Jan 2013 #1
So it's like some dragonflycraneoxduck? bluedigger Jan 2013 #2
They went and strapped a firecracker on some poor bird's back, is what I'm guessing. kestrel91316 Jan 2013 #3
 

kestrel91316

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3. They went and strapped a firecracker on some poor bird's back, is what I'm guessing.
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 06:33 PM
Jan 2013

It's NORTH Korea, people. They eat grass and their fellow humans.

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