Missiles and balls - a piece on capabilities...

DRNK's 7th missile test
(all quotes from The Guardian, texts in Italics belong to me)

As most of Europe seems to be in the craze of the World Cup finals, "North Korea ignored international condemnation of its missile tests by launching a seventh missile today, insisting it was its sovereign right to do so." -as do all Western countries that test missiles, the difference seems to me that when you are Western, you do not have to INSIST on that. You just do it...

"The launch came hours before the UN security council was due to convene in New York to discuss what US and Japan said would be a tough response." Surprise surprise! No Europeans involved. They must be discussing the last minute goal(S!) of last night. Of course, due to the difference (in time and culture) neither US nor Japan was awake and/or interested about THAT! Listen to their reason for this gathering and the "tough response" though:

"Hours before, the communist regime [THE communist regime!] launched six missiles, including a long-range Taepodong-2 missile, which is capable of striking the US mainland but which failed 40 seconds after launch." Like all North Korean missiles really... I don't remember one that didn't fail. The question seems to me, HOW ON EARTH you call this "capability". On the other hand of course, the US missiles are capable of striking ANYWHERE in the world, but that is for some reason taken for granted.

"'The Taepodong obviously was a failure - that tells you something about capabilities,' said US national security adviser Stephen Hadley. " At least some are still making sense. When we are talking about nuclear capabilities it seems vaguely important to note that the US outnumbers any other country's warheads, spending, investment, variety etc.

So nobody seems to worry about the fact that these tests are not only destructive to the seabed but are also RADIOACTIVE!!!


Oh talking about the seabed (or the World Cup for that matter) I have to mention that according to Greenpeace 10 football pitches of ocean floor is trawled every four seconds.

See their anima on the World Cup, too.

Simple suggestion: Don't eat ocean fish. Watch the games, enjoy your life, forget about the nuclear tests... It's World Cup time of the year...

Or if you want to get serious, or course, when there is will there is a way...

I believe that's all for now -and for the week as I will be packing for UK.