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Posted on 05/28/2017 8:09:14 PM PDT by hapnHal
Does President Trump need a "HOT LINE" with North Korea Kim Jong-un?
We currently have a "HOT LINE" link with Russia.
The Moscow-Washington ‘Red Phone’ New tensions between the United States and Russia have resurfaced an old myth about the Cold War foes’ emergency communications link, known as the “Red Phone.”
It is not a phone. It never has been.
That false image, perpetuated in popular culture (“Dr. Strangelove,” “Fail Safe,”) and campaign ads (“3 a.m.”) masks a less evocative reality: secure teletypes, faxes and computer links transmitting encrypted text messages between the Kremlin and Pentagon.
But their purpose is no less urgent: avoiding war between the world’s two biggest nuclear powers.
It isn’t used very often. But President Obama resorted to it in October, to warn Russian President Vladimir Putin against using hackers to disrupt the U.S. election.
Related: What Obama Said to Putin on the Red Phone About the Election Hack
Obama delivered his message by email over a secure satellite connection, a far cry from the wire telegraph that served the first transmissions a half-century ago.
Back then, the United States had a relatively new system of hotlines used to defend America against a nuclear attack. These phones, operated by the Continental Air Defense Command, were often red, to distinguish them from the everyday black.
That may be where the “red phone” myth began.
Send Skylark Tonight to do an interview.
Only if he’s going to make crank calls.
Gee, I don’t know. Can anyone think of any difference between RUSSIA and a North Korea?? Anything?
They’re not normal.
They’d view it as a sign of weakness.
Best for NK: Let your ACTIONS speak for you.
No. Just a launch order.
Agreed. Enough is enough.
No, one with China, which controls North Korea.
Don’t forget North Korea gets most of it’s missile components from China.
But Norks can thank William Jefferson Clinton for nuclear capacity and Iran for cooperative development.
Iran can thank 0bama for nuclear capacity.
No. We have the NK GPS if needed. Bombs away.
Even in the bad old days of the USSR, the Russians were more rational.
North Korea would need to install updated technology to be able to talk with President Trump:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDwz-rHbZCw
It is not a phone. It never has been.
Make Denis Rodman ambassador.
I used to be a TTY repairman. Back in the days of Ma Bell, a TTY machine (28 KSR) was kept in a vault in a System owned building in NYC. Whenever a President was to stay in town, this machine was “routined” and placed at POTUS’s hotel. It would be connected to some government equipment that was covered by tarps. One of the few NYTel TTY repairman who had been given security clearance was on call 24/7 and would be housed at that hotel for the duration of the President’s visit. Those tarps would NEVER be removed in the repairman’s presence.
SS told us unofficially that his is what, at the time, was known as “The Red Phone”.
Y, this is not to dispute what you posted since this was before Reagan. However, red phones were NOT that difficult to get. All one had to do was pay the monthly charge for it. Many wire rooms on Wall St. had them.
I was an enlisted aide to a Brig Gen and worked out of his house. He had a red phone. The last call I remember was about the B-52s we lost over NVN.
The Red Phones and the Hot Line are two different things. The Red Phones are between US players, and the Hot Line was a comms link between Washington and Moscow.
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