Posted on 04/15/2017 1:45:11 AM PDT by LibWhacker
TOKYO North Korea put on a huge military spectacle Saturday to celebrate its founders birthday, parading its series of new and technologically advanced missiles in front of Kim Jong Un, and in a defiant show of force in front of the world.
North Korea did not, however, carry out another nuclear test or ballistic missile launch, against widespread speculation that it would seek to celebrate Kim Il Sungs 105th birthday with a bang.
April 15 is the most important day in the North Korean calendar, and Kim Jong Un has celebrated his grandfathers birthday with great fanfare as a way to boost his own legitimacy as the successor to the communist dynasty.
North Korea presented two of its newest missiles at the parade in Kim Il Sung Square on Saturday, including the submarine-launched ballistic missile it successfully fired last year and the land-based version it launched last month.
And there were a lot of them, said Melissa Hanham, an expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California. The signal that theyre trying to send is that they are moving ahead with solid-fuel missiles.
North Korea has been working on solid fuel, which means missiles are ready to fire and dont need loading with propellant like its previous liquid-fueled missiles, as a way to fire missiles quickly and without detection by satellites.
Analysts were working to identify all the missiles that were shown off on Saturday, many of which appeared to have new paint jobs or be variants on known missiles.
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I don't think they are going to go ahead with the test either. But the day is not over.
Current time
5:16 PM
Saturday, April 15, 2017 (GMT+8:30)
Time in Pyongyang, North Korea
The signal that theyre trying to send is that they are moving ahead with solid-fuel missiles....
The signal they DID SEND is that they are big p######s.
Now we know our enemy’s stomach for real trouble.
That’s an advantage.
Yup, Chubby has got to know that war with us is the end of him. And I can’t see him committing suicide unnecessarily. Still... he’s got another six hours to show his hand.
Russia
He’s not gonna do ####.
MY question is, can the nukes and missiles advance without live testing and can a nuclear test underground go undetected?
Or is that impossible?
Mighty strong talk from a short Fatboi...
He must have the tiniest hands.
Pussy hat wearing, fake wannabe
I think Xi gave the kid a call and said party and parade all you want but no nuke and no launch. We need the heat to die down here so don’t make it worse.
China would be pushed to respond or at least condemn them for a nuke test.
Plus if this is a parade and a show, a nuke test underground is not a spectator event. Does not make good TV.
Underground nuke shows up on world’s seismology instruments. There was talk there first nuke test was a fake big pile of TNT. That is based on that seismology picture. Nuke goes boom faster than pile of TNT even though that is in milliseconds it shows up
Yes, but you have to be willing to trust in your physics. Israel is thought to have nukes, even the hydrogen bomb, but is never known to have tested one. Similarly, South Africa. Both may have done testing in remote stretches of the South Atlantic. As I understand it, anomalous events were detected (barely) a time or two down there, but were never pinned down as to what exactly they were. Or if anyone did determine what they were, they weren't willing to say it. As to underground tests, I remember when the Norks first started this crap, it was difficult to interpret the data we were getting. Those were probably failed tests. But no, I don't think it would be possible to hide a successful underground nuclear explosion (10Kt or larger, say) from prying eyes (seismometers).
So sick of hearing about those goose-stepping gooks and their lard-assed leader.
North Korea shows off new missiles in huge military parade...
The Mouse that roared.
An underground test could be confused with an earthquake, however with the level of scrutiny and the visible prep that is unlikely. Israeli and South African bombs were tested in the remote south Atlantic. Israel and the US can do without testing because they know the failure modes. The NK’s can build and launch untested hardware but will not be certain they work.
An underground test could be confused with an earthquake, however with the level of scrutiny and the visible prep that is unlikely. Israeli and South African bombs were tested in the remote south Atlantic. Israel and the US can do without testing because they know the failure modes. The NK’s can build and launch untested hardware but will not be certain they work.
An underground test could be confused with an earthquake, however with the level of scrutiny and the visible prep that is unlikely. Israeli and South African bombs were tested in the remote south Atlantic. Israel and the US can do without testing because they know the failure modes. The NK’s can build and launch untested hardware but will not be certain they work.
An underground test could be confused with an earthquake, however with the level of scrutiny and the visible prep that is unlikely. Israeli and South African bombs were tested in the remote south Atlantic. Israel and the US can do without testing because they know the failure modes. The NK’s can build and launch untested hardware but will not be certain they work.
I have commented elsewhere that liberals unintentionally celebrate dictator’s birthdays.
April 20, the marijuana holiday, is Adolf Hitler’s birthday.
The first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, also happened to be Lenin’s 100th birthday.
December 21, the Winter Solstice which some New Agers celebrate instead of Christmas, is Joseph Stalin’s birthday.
And I expect that in the near future, liberals will have holidays on the birthdays of Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, and Pol Pot, too.
Now I have learned that April 15, which we know liberals love because of the IRS, is a North Korean holiday.
These can’t all be coincidences.
Perfect opportunity to drop about ten MOAB bombs on Pyongyang.
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