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A North Korea nuclear test over the Pacific? Logical, terrifying
Reuters ^ | 22 Sep 2017 | Hyonhee Shin, Linda Sieg

Posted on 09/22/2017 7:23:39 AM PDT by mandaladon

SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - Detonating a nuclear-tipped missile over the Pacific Ocean would be a logical final step by North Korea to prove the success of its weapons program but would be extremely provocative and carry huge risks, arms control experts said on Friday.

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho suggested leader Kim Jong Un was considering testing “an unprecedented scale hydrogen bomb” over the Pacific in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat at the United Nations to “totally destroy” the country.

“It may mean North Korea will fire a warhead-tipped (intermediate range) Hwasong-12 or Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile and blow it up a few hundred kilometers above the Pacific Ocean,” said Yang Uk, a senior researcher at the Korea Defence and Security Forum in Seoul.

“They may be bluffing, but there is a need for them to test their combined missile-bomb capability. They could have already prepared the plan and are now trying to use Trump’s remarks as an excuse to make it happen,” said Yang.

Such an atmospheric test would be the first globally since China detonated a device in 1980, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Tests of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles are rarer still. The United States’ only test of an operational ballistic missile with a live warhead was fired from submarine far out in the Pacific Ocean in 1962.

China was widely condemned for a similar test with a missile that exploded over its Lop Nur test site in the country’s west in 1966.

North Korea’s six nuclear tests to date have all been underground, the most recent earlier this month by far its largest.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kim; nk; nknukes; pacific; third100days; trump; trumpasia
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“To put a live nuclear warhead on a missile that’s only been tested a handful of times, overflying potentially populated centers. If it...doesn’t go exactly as planned....it could be a world changing event.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~No kidding!!!
1 posted on 09/22/2017 7:23:39 AM PDT by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

This simply means that it is time to knock down EVERY NORK launch on ascent.

Do you prefer an unexploded nuke at the bottom of the ocean or a blowed up one above?


2 posted on 09/22/2017 7:24:53 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: mandaladon
Detonating a nuclear-tipped missile over the Pacific Ocean would be a logical final step by North Korea to prove the success of its weapons program but would be extremely provocative and carry huge risks, arms control experts said on Friday.

You got to get up priiiiiiiiity early in the morning to get something by arms control experts.

3 posted on 09/22/2017 7:26:22 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: G Larry

I figure the leftist freaks are going to support NK by telling us he has the right because we blew up nukes in the Pacific, too.


4 posted on 09/22/2017 7:27:34 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: G Larry
Do you prefer an unexploded nuke at the bottom of the ocean or a blowed up one above?

An unexploded nuke at the bottom of the ocean can be recovered for examination.

5 posted on 09/22/2017 7:32:26 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: mandaladon

Odumass started all this crap by paying the Iatollas $700 million to be “good boys”. Now the norks are looking for the same kind of payday.


6 posted on 09/22/2017 7:32:46 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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I figure the leftist freaks are going to support NK by telling us he has the right because we blew up nukes in the Pacific, too.

But, think of the whales that will be killed!

7 posted on 09/22/2017 7:33:22 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: mandaladon

Notice the mandatory it’s-Trump’s-fault statement:

They could have already prepared the plan and are now trying to use Trump’s remarks as an excuse to make it happen,” said Yang.


8 posted on 09/22/2017 7:33:46 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: mandaladon

The Young Un still thinks the World will cave and give him everything he wants


9 posted on 09/22/2017 7:35:40 AM PDT by butlerweave (it's the children are)
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To: mandaladon
“They may be bluffing, but there is a need for them to test their combined missile-bomb capability. They could have already prepared the plan and are now trying to use Trump’s remarks as an excuse to make it happen,” said Yang.

Blame it on Trump. The NKs have been working on a deliverable atomic bomb for decades. They are now at the stage of testing the weapon on a missile. They don't need an excuse or pretext. It has always been part of the plan.

10 posted on 09/22/2017 7:36:07 AM PDT by kabar
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To: G Larry
Consider: Blowing up a NORK nuke over NORKland has additional good value besides just destroying the missile.
11 posted on 09/22/2017 7:37:17 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: mandaladon

So he’s thinking that altitude will make it OK?

Turnabout is fair play.

Just pop one of ours off one foot over his ass.

He can take out a tape measure and check.


12 posted on 09/22/2017 7:38:19 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: G Larry

Knock it down and recovery the warhead and find out who designed. North Korea did not. If all hell breaks loose the nation that designed the warhead gets smoked also. That warhead is probably Chinese design via Pakistan


13 posted on 09/22/2017 7:38:51 AM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud-man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, CONSTITUTION WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: mandaladon

Time for a pulse-bomb over Nork’s territory?


14 posted on 09/22/2017 7:39:12 AM PDT by Does so (McAuliffe's Charlottesville...and...The Walter Duranty Press"...)
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To: GoldenPup
No, Clinton started making extortion payments to the North Koreans in 1994. Who can forget Albright toasting Kim Jong Il?


15 posted on 09/22/2017 7:40:23 AM PDT by kabar
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To: mandaladon

bottom line, we can thank Bill Clinton for this NK nuke mess. And yes, the little fat NK rocket man is nuts and will very likely not survive much longer


16 posted on 09/22/2017 7:40:32 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: mandaladon

Funny how Al Reuters managed to forget Soviet test 219 in ‘62
25MT warhead on top of an ICBM


17 posted on 09/22/2017 7:42:13 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: SevenofNine
GODZILLA!

Your target this time is,

The entire country of North Korea.

We will let you alone, if you leave the rest of us alone!

OK, ... DEAL?

18 posted on 09/22/2017 7:42:18 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: mandaladon

Time to Nuke North Korea. Settle this now.


19 posted on 09/22/2017 7:43:45 AM PDT by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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North Korean threat to test hydrogen bomb in Pacific draws White House warning~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Coming soon???
20 posted on 09/22/2017 7:48:11 AM PDT by mandaladon (It's always good to be underestimated. ~Donald Trump)
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