Posted on 07/03/2017 6:48:01 PM PDT by Malcolm Reynolds
On its website, South Korean state news agency Yonhap cited South Korea's military as saying an unidentified ballistic missile launched from a location near the North's border with China at 9:40 a.m. local time. South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered a National Security Council meeting after the launch, Yonhap reported, citing the Blue House — the South's equivalent of the White House.
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Thanks. Still learning the finer points of posting.
Flew 930km 40mins...no trajectory yet but Japan isn’t happy
In the tense aftermath of the Pueblo seizure, Pentagon war planners weighed using nuclear weapons to stop a possible communist invasion of South Korea, as well as mounting a massive air attack to wipe out North Korea's air force. The nuclear option, eerily codenamed "Freedom Drop," envisioned the use of American aircraft and land-based missiles to incinerate onrushing North Korean troops.
Exactly.
It’s a nuke. You don’t even have to get the ship tied up in the dock. Set it off in the middle of the harbor for maximum devastation.
Chemistry “dude!” ... ;-)
South Korea’s days of wine and roses is quickly coming to an end.
It’s 1200km from Pyongyang to Tokyo. Given the flight time, that seems to be a high trajectory and the missile was probably capable of reaching Japan. The NK missile technology is decades old. The more they screw around, the more likely an error is to occur. The ballistic missile equivalent of MH17 can easily happen. I can see why they’re upset.
The Norks are trying to stir up tensions with the US Trump and China Xi meeting. Trump should tell the Norks that Fat Boy the Turd will be shot down if he travels anywhere and that if his military fires into South Korea then they will all be executed.
We are on the same page there. Either China takes care of it or we do. The nut regime in NK is coming to a head.
They have decided to poke the bear with bigger spears.
Their choice.
A couple questions for more knowledgeable freepers.. 1) is there a way to know if the launched missile has a nuclear warhead? 2) I know the missile landed in the ocean but is there a way to know its intended target?
Madeline Half-Bright gave him a basketball.
Way to go.
Yes, but it’d need to be a sizable one. A Hiroshima sized bomb at Pier 11 would not have the devastating effect on NYC you’d expect. They haven’t shown the capabilities to make a thermonuclear megaton device.
They can track and calculate its trajectory, thus where they expect it to land. Whether it has a nuke warhead on it is a guess. The only way to know for sure is to attain the missile debris or look for the mushroom cloud if it hits its target.
Is this a cause for concern with 20,000 artillery pieces that North Korea has aimed at the South.
Of course, if Obama were still president or Hillary, the world would be a safe place. Just put on Rose Colored Glasses and sing Mary Poppin's songs...
If Bill Clinton were president, he would find an intern to relieve the situation...
They might be able to fire over the blasts, but only if there were far enough away from the detonations.
This might sound EXTREME, but there is no easy way to neutralize 20,000 pieces of artillery without serious civilian casualties in South Korea -- particularly the city of Seoul.
I don't know where the Olympics will be, but they really should be on the Southern most part of South Korea.
NK is gonna target Seoul soon. They are crazy and will continue.
The west will not wait for that to happen. They are close enough to practice in the ocean.
I believe a strike is imminent.
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