Posted on 10/19/2016 7:46:03 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
U.S. says N. Korea's launch of Musudan missile ends in failure again
2016/10/20 10:39
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired a Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile on Thursday (Korean time), but the launch ended in failure, the U.S. Strategic Command said.
"U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) systems detected what we assess was a failed North Korean missile launch" at 7 a.m. (Korean time) near the northwestern city of Kusong, the command said in a statement.
"The missile is presumed to be a Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile," it said. "The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) determined the missile launch from North Korea did not pose a threat to North America."
It was the second time in less than a week that the North has launched a Musudan missile believed to be capable of reaching the U.S. territory of Guam. The previous launch, which came on Saturday, also ended in failure as the missile exploded shortly after take-off.
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Loose lips sink ships.
I’m kind of baffled by this. *I* could build a functional ballistic missile given suitable funds. It’s just not that hard.
Kind of weird they can’t. But also good.
The Norkies need to go back to the Longdong series of missiles.
The whole country is starving and the leadership is struck with venomous penis envy, putting exploding fire poles into the Asian skies instead of feeding their own people.
Isn’t this two failures in a row? I imagine some heads will be rolling.
It has been never a policy of NK state for more than 20 years. Many peons in NK were starved to death. These people were the most loyal, ones with the strong belief that the state will look after them. The rest were forced to find ways to fend for themselves.
A great tragedy of our time, a purely man-made disaster.
Another engineer executed with an anti-aircraft gun?
The executions will continue until morale improves!
If there is a rocket engineer who overslept and was late for work, he had better be ready for his fate.
That’s the good news.
The bad news is that these North Koreans are just crazy enoigh to use the missiles once they’re reliable.
And, yes, they have nukes.
If/when they succeed in flying one, if the telemetry says the warhead functioned... The next one just might have fissile material in it and be targeted at something we care about.
Certanly, the North Koreans would not scruple for a moment to send nukes at South Korea or even Japan.
If they could, they’d love nothing bettter than to nuke the US West Coast.
Now, put this together with:
a) Hillary's revelation that from the time the President gives the order, it takes 4 minutes to launch an nuke
b) Biden pointing out the guy who carries the football.
c) The risk of EMP (rather than just losing, say, San Francisco).
Put these together, and you'd think they WANT America to suffer a devastating first strike.
Don't any of these Dems realize, MAD doesn't work with people who want to die?
And having our Trident subs nuke them *back* won't restore millions of lost American lives.
"You can't stop a nuke with raised eyebrows!"
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PUTIN’S WARNING – Now Russia tells the US ‘if you want a war you will get one EVERYWHERE’
October 19, 2016
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She actually said it was our Nuclear Response time from the time the President makes the decision and presses the button to first launch!
I am certain that response time frame is something that is considered a classified, if not top secret, piece of information. . . yet Hillary just blabbed it on world wide TV to make a political zinger point against Trump! She has ZERO judgement.
2015: the 1,900 deployed nuclear warheads, an average of 850 are on high alert including 430 ICBMs – capable of launch within 5 minutes – and 400 SLBMs – capable of launch within 15 minutes.
http://www.globalzero.org/files/global_zero_commission_on_nuclear_risk_reduction_report_0.pdf
2012: Of the world's nine states in possession of nuclear weapons, we estimate that only two states - the United States and the Russian Federation - maintain their nuclear forces on a high level of alert, able to launch within minutes.
In early 2009, General Solovtsov stated, “At least 96 percent of all missile systems are ready for deployment within several dozen seconds” and that this is “the highest readiness level” within the Russian Federation’s nuclear triad. Since that was the number given for all ICBMs, the readiness level for mobile missiles is probably lower. It is interesting that Russian statements on the launch-ready status of their nuclear forces are given in a time frame of seconds, rather than minutes. It would mean that the Russian readiness level is either higher than that of the US ICBM force, or that the statement
is exaggerated.
http://www.unidir.org/files/publications/pdfs/reducing-alert-rates-of-nuclear-weapons-400.pdf
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