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Obama’s First Crisis?
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Might this be the world crisis that, during the campaign, Joe Biden warned about? The Times of London reports that “North Korea is preparing to test fire a long range missile capable of striking the United States.” South Korean officials claim to have seen satellite images of a long cylindrical object being transported, by train, through the North Korean countryside. It is believed that the test will not happen for another month or two, and that the missile is a Taepodong-2, which is capable of striking Hawaii or Alaska. Meanwhile, Iran is also looking beyond Obama's initial honeymoon period: they launched a homemade satellite.
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Dave1959
Lets not worry too much for now as we know that obama has not dismantled any security measures put in place by Pres Bush .. ooops !!
didila
Just a note on your extra insight sidebar, in the website Xtra Insight directs you to the reader has to pay to subscribe to the article. This news has already been reproted widely so it might be worth putting in a different link for people to be directed to, eg BBC. Thanks
apostleis
Be afraid???
Their last long range test was a failure. Let them try it again.
sonofloud
The scapegoating begins already.
The president is the one who creates foreign policy, the secretary of state carries it out.
It's failure or success lies squarely with the president and no one else.
It's called taking responsibility for your actions, not Obama's strong suit.
robertell
boring
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n--Y--AeolusBulldoglover100
LOL Obama has been in office....2 weeks and you think this is a crisis? and some other dill weed thinks he can fix the crap hole Bush left us in quickly? LOL Grow up and realize you guys lost the election....and if Palin is your next big hope? Your going to lose again.
Bulldoglover100
Yep Bushy kept us safe...if you call ruining 4000 soliers lives, putting this country into the worst financial crisis in 70 years and the GOP only having 5 states left as safe................
OBAMA 08 & 12...wait and see, bring on your moose killer! LOL
india1
Simply shortsightedness.Lookes like a decision? based on unfounded fear, complacency and a misguided mission of a closed, dictatorial mind.Why the hell, now, NK plans to test the 'target reach' of its long range missile ? What will it achieve?
That Obama has remarkably shown some 'change' in foreign affairs thinking, declaring' America a friend to all' and mostly talking in a positive and 'understanding tone' , it will be wiser on part of NK to see things in a new light and try something positive and 'new'.
Anyway a hungry man can't have muscles for long. When
many in the country are dying out of hunger, a substantial
military buildup and its maintainance for long may not be practically possible.Certainly NK is not seeing the wild dream of becoming globe's supreme military power, only to conquer the whole earth? Practically it can't. So why waste money, time and energy for something so unproductive.? Especially when the world's super power is explicitly talking of understanding, friendship and progress?
If NK fails to read the new opportunity that the new trend and time offers and still sits tight with a ' clinched fist' and 'closed mind' and acts senseless, its vision on progress and people's welfare will never move beyond a short range.
When democracy is spreading all around, some people can still tolerate a benovolent dictator for sometime. But never a violent one, out to invite disaster for its own people, without being provoked.
maggirl
Oh geez - be afraid be afraid be afraid!!!! OOOHHHH- I am SO afraid. God - STOP being so afraid! If you want something to truly be afraid of - be afraid of climate change!
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n--Y--Cooper727queensplate
send sarah to check it out
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