Posted on 09/05/2017 10:09:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
South Korea has pledged to develop a powerful “Frankenmissile” capable of destroying North Korea’s underground military facilities and wartime commands as it beefs up its armoury to counter the growing threat from across the border.
According to the Korea Herald, military sources in Seoul revealed the plan the day after South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his US counterpart Donald Trump agreed to scrap an imposed 500kg limit on the warheads fitting onto the South’s missiles.
Mr Moon had told the US president during a telephone call on Monday, after Pyongyang’s detonation of a hydrogen bomb test, that it was “crucial” to find “powerful and practical measures” to give North Korea a wake-up call about the consequences of its actions.
South Korea already has the capability of firing ballistic missiles with a range of up to 800km, allowing it to hit anywhere within the pariah regime to its north. But its deterrence capability has until now been curbed by a restrictions on the payload of its missiles.
Seoul’s new plans to develop new missiles capable of carrying 2 tonne bombs will allow it to attack North Korea’s extensive underground military facilities on its own, without depending on America’s Bunker Buster Bomb.
The so-called “Frankenmissile” is just one of several new tactics intended by the South to build up its military muscle as North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un rapidly accelerates his missile and nuclear weapons programme.....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Perhaps they could heed Trump’s element of surprise advise & not Telegraph their military plans.
South Korea has pledged to develop...
No kidding. I don't understand this. Did we announce D-day before the battle?
So the North Koreans are just like goblins streaming out of the depths of the mines of Moria, like in Lord of the Rings?
I suppose we should call them NORCs now.
Yea, with plans on a dead guy indicating a different landing area ;-)
Could be misdirection just like on D-Day where we fooled the Germans into thinking we were going to come in at pas de Calais.
I believe we did. But the projection was for the invasions to take place at another location — A rather devious leak.
My first thought, too. Just a wee bit lat ego develop such a weapon, huh?
Furthermore, SK will loft a 2 ton warhead to the north while NK is shooting 50,000 warheads south. I’m no weapons expert, but I do recall 50,000 is a heap bigger than 2.
Yeah, just broadcast it far and wide so the fat kid escapes. Thanks for nothing Telegraph.
I’m in favor of launching everything we got at them and then nuking them from space... Just to be sure.
Let them be an example of what happens when you threaten America and it’s allies.
It will be real cofveve.
Whatever happened to our tactical nukes? Didn’t B.O. get rid of them? Weapon of choice in this situation.
We can’t even call this saber-rattling. No saber to rattle, yet.
Not all that tough as we have already been doing it on a different scale in the mountains of Afghanistan. Shoot a delayed fused projectile into the opening and when it goes off inside the shaft, it sucks all of the oxygen out of it to feed the explosion. Now, develop the same thing but instead of a flaming explosion, set off a charge to release a large container of halon. Far more effective at sucking all of the oxygen at the same time not allowing anything the opportunity to ignite.
Just clean out the chord wood and turn their own weapons around on them.
“South Korea has pledged to develop”
Seems a bit late to pledge to develop something at this point.
Disinformation? These bombs will be needed for Iran, not Korea...
Pictures don’t mean anything without an explanation.
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