N Korea shoots missiles at China & misses, dang

[Taro Toporific]

[floatr][/floatr]North Korea shoots missiles towards China
MSN-Mainichi Daily News, March 8, 2006
Two ground-to-air missiles fired by Pyongyang near its border with China may have landed in North Korean territory, a Japanese news agency reported, citing security sources.
Kyodo News agency cited an "Asian security source" as saying the missiles were fired by mistake in the direction of China during a military drill, and the missiles appeared to have landed in North Korean territory....more...

[Taro Toporific]

UPDATE:


N. Korea missiles tested are quantum leap: US general
Reuters News, Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:30 AM
....Speaking before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee on Thursday in Washington, General B.B. Bell said North Korea was also moving ahead with the development of longer-range ballistic missiles that could hit Alaska and targets in the continental United States...
"(They) are, in fact, a quantum leap forward from the kind of missiles that they have produced in the past," Bell told the hearing, referring to the short-range missiles tested this week.
The missiles were boosted by solid fuel, rather than liquid fuel, providing greater reliability, mobility and precision, he said.
"They are routinely testing these," Bell told the hearing, according to an audio recording made available on Friday on the U.S. House committee's Web site.
North Korea test-fired a similar missile in May last year. A senior Bush administration official said the missiles tested this week did not leave North Korean territory.
South Korean daily JoongAng Ilbo said North Korea fired the two missiles from its east coast and they probably dropped into the sea about 100 km (60 miles) away, citing a government source.
Initial reports said the tests were over a shorter distance elsewhere and just on land...more...

[homesweethome]

The Japanese military has been so stingy with issuing computers to its members that 67,000 (yes, folks, sixty-seven thousand) personnel bring their own computers to work, reports Asahi Shimbun of Japan.

Many of the personal computers have file sharing programs. So top secret stuff has been leaking to the web.

New computers are being being purchased by the military.

Source: orbat