# North Korea May Test ICBM This Weekend **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-may-test-icbm-this-weekend/361044 "2006-06-17T07:31:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-may-test-icbm-this-weekend/361044/1 "2006-06-17T07:31:15Z")
[It’s apparently on the pad being fuelled up.](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/washington/17korea.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) > [@](#): > > North Korea appears to have stepped up preparations to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, perhaps as early as this weekend, American officials said Friday. > > The move, if carried out, would put the North’s military efforts back into the spotlight and could demonstrate that it has a missile with the range to reach the United States. I’m not liking the looks of this. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-may-test-icbm-this-weekend/361044/2 "2006-06-17T08:16:16Z")
Sweet! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-may-test-icbm-this-weekend/361044/3 "2006-06-17T08:33:52Z")
Living in downtown Tokyo does have its down points. Ah well, at least it’s all your’s turn to have North Korea shooting stuff overhead. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-may-test-icbm-this-weekend/361044/4 "2006-06-17T08:59:56Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > Sweet! Boy, and I thought _my_ reaction\* was inappropriate! \*Which was to think of _Crimson Tide_. “North Korean missiles will have launch capability in 15 minutes.” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Clam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@Happy\_Clam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Clam)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-may-test-icbm-this-weekend/361044/5 "2006-06-17T09:51:09Z")
Oh, good, something _else_ to worry about. Anyone else humming “We Will All Go Together When We Go” right now? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-may-test-icbm-this-weekend/361044/6 "2006-06-17T10:35:37Z")
> [@Sage Rat](#): > > Living in downtown Tokyo does have its down points. > > Ah well, at least it’s all your’s turn to have North Korea shooting stuff overhead. Aw, don’t worry…if the worst happens, Uncle Sam and John Bull will send a chorus of screaming Reds to be your slaves in afterlife. An atomic Gochihr to purify the Earth with a grand feast for the nuclear Molech! I can already savor the sweet, leady taste of hard fission! _And Darkness and Decay and the Holy Fallout shalt hold illimitable dominion over all!_ There. How’s _dat_ for “inappropriate”? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-may-test-icbm-this-weekend/361044/7 "2006-06-17T10:46:59Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Aw, don’t worry…if the worst happens, Uncle Sam and John Bull will send a chorus of screaming Reds to be your slaves in afterlife. An atomic Gochihr to purify the Earth with a grand feast for the nuclear Molech! I can already savor the sweet, leady taste of hard fission! _And Darkness and Decay and the Holy Fallout shalt hold illimitable dominion over all!_ > > There. How’s _dat_ for “inappropriate”? 😉 Well if someone tells me where the giant caves are, I’ll always be happy to go with Dr. Strangelove’s plan: > [@](#): > > General “Buck” Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned? > Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious… service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature. > Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-may-test-icbm-this-weekend/361044/8 "2006-06-17T11:02:58Z")
Relax! [THIS](http://www.firework.co.nz/dgd/099-judkinsrocket.jpg) is the most likely result of this test. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-may-test-icbm-this-weekend/361044/9 "2006-06-17T11:55:37Z")
Thier leader is the person I’ve had marked as the biggest threat in the world, since his father did. The both considered themselves God’s. Every year he extorts stuff from the surrounding countries threating to set off a nuclear bomb to comtaminate their people. He does nothing to help his own people, and they are lefft to starve to death. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-may-test-icbm-this-weekend/361044/10 "2006-06-17T16:59:17Z")
> [@Harmonious Discord](#): > > Thier leader is the person I’ve had marked as the biggest threat in the world, since his father did. The both considered themselves God’s. Every year he extorts stuff from the surrounding countries threating to set off a nuclear bomb to comtaminate their people. He does nothing to help his own people, and they are lefft to starve to death. In other news, sun rises in East. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Clam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@Happy\_Clam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Clam)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-may-test-icbm-this-weekend/361044/11 "2006-06-17T22:41:58Z")
> [@CynicalGabe](#): > > In other news, sun rises in East. 😉 Now the sun itself has allied it with the hideous Orientals! Run, run I tells ya! ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-korea-may-test-icbm-this-weekend/361044/12 "2006-06-18T13:54:12Z")
Si-fan