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Korean-American charged in rocket technology plot

 
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travelingfool



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:05 pm    Post subject: Korean-American charged in rocket technology plot Reply with quote

MIAMI � A Korean-American who served prison time for attempting to broker the sale of deadly nerve gas bombs to Iran was indicted Wednesday on new charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket hardware and technology.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090429/ap_on_re_us/us_rocket_plot_2

Nice to see where his loyalties are Sad
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Sleepy in Seoul



Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ

PostPosted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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MIAMI � A Korean-American who served prison time for attempting to broker the sale of deadly nerve gas bombs to Iran was indicted Wednesday on new charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket hardware and technology.

What does 'indicted Wednesday' mean?
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Robot_Teacher



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where in the heck was this puny little man in a suit getting all these bombs and shit? I didn't know South Korea lacked advanced Russian technology. OH, wait, they're not supposed to have that as Russia backs the North Korea who probably has it so America put a stop to that one. This is all one big chess game with Russia, China, and America being the big boy players with the little guys like the 2 Korea's caught between a rock and a hard place. I'm not saying Korea is a bad guy, but wherever this hardware ends up, it'll eventually be used, becuase it exists and was designed for one purpose. To destroy the Earth over an international dispute that gets out of hand at some point.

Please, why in the world did we invent and plan for global thermal nuclear war? It's the dumbest idea ever thought up. Why? And one day, somethings going to go badly wrong when that hardware falls into the wrong hands. The hardware was designed last for many hundreds of years until the day it is to be used. America is not going to be around to forever to control this issue they manufactured off of a German's idea. That's a shame it has to be this way. I feel so bad that we can and will destroy the Earth. I remember when I was a little kid and saw this TV show about it and how terrified it made me feel and how I thought about it every day for years on end.
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TheUrbanMyth



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Robot_Teacher wrote:
And one day, somethings going to go badly wrong when that hardware falls into the wrong hands. The hardware was designed last for many hundreds of years until the day it is to be used.



No, it's not. They require maintenance. And the average life span of a nuclear weapon is 20-25 years. Scientists are trying to extend the life span of American stockpiled weapons to 75 years.. either way it's hardly "many hundreds of years"
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Robot_Teacher



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

TheUrbanMyth wrote:
Robot_Teacher wrote:
And one day, somethings going to go badly wrong when that hardware falls into the wrong hands. The hardware was designed last for many hundreds of years until the day it is to be used.



No, it's not. They require maintenance. And the average life span of a nuclear weapon is 20-25 years. Scientists are trying to extend the life span of American stockpiled weapons to 75 years.. either way it's hardly "many hundreds of years"


It's the bomb part that lasts; not the rocket it's mounted on, but it can be fitted on new rockets.
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roknroll



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PostPosted: Fri May 01, 2009 2:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dirty bombs don't require the latest and greatest innovations, just the radioactive elements
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