{"id":35063,"date":"2013-04-12T09:11:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T13:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35063"},"modified":"2013-04-12T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T14:06:18","slug":"north-korea-conducts-pre-launch-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35063","title":{"rendered":"North Korea conducts pre-launch tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/04\/12\/north-korea-capable-arming-missile-with-nuclear-warhead-according-to-pentagon\/\">Fox News<\/a> North Koreans have conducted pre-launch tests on at least one of their mobile launchers by raising it and then immediately lowering it.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=2294079554001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is happening while John Kerry, the Secretary of State, is in Seoul. I&#8217;ve heard that he&#8217;s spending his trip under any table he can find in his travels. Apparently, while all of this was going on, General Marty Dempsey was showing his ass in front of the Defense Department oversight committee when he was told that North Korea had a capability to launch nuclear weapons;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., read aloud what he said was an unclassified paragraph from a secret Defense Intelligence Agency report that was supplied to some members of Congress. The reading seemed to take Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, by surprise, who said he hadn&#8217;t seen the report and declined to answer questions about it.<\/p>\n<p>The DIA conclusion was confirmed by a senior congressional aide who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Pentagon had not officially released the contents. The aide said the report was produced in March.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m still convinced that all of this is just blather &#8211; there&#8217;s no other news for the cable networks to cover. The whole world thinks of North Korea as a nuclear-armed punch line. As they should, the Obama Administration is taking defensive measures, just in case I&#8217;m wrong. but, I guess it&#8217;s karma that no one was worried about North Korea in 2008, in fact Democrats used to laugh at Republicans who pushed for a missile defense shield by joking &#8220;What? Are the North Koreans going to launch at us?&#8221; Yeah, we were called cold warriors who can&#8217;t let the past go. So, who is laughing now? Well, not me, but still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ADDED: Apparently, Dempsey was surprised because he didn&#8217;t know that paragraph had been declassified, because <a href=\"http:\/\/security.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/04\/11\/mistake-in-classification-led-to-n-korea-info-being-revealed\/\">it shouldn&#8217;t have been declassified<\/a>. oh, well&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News North Koreans have conducted pre-launch tests on at least one of their &hellip; <a title=\"North Korea conducts pre-launch tests\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35063\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">North Korea conducts pre-launch tests<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}