Posted on 07/06/2017 2:29:40 PM PDT by davikkm
The unpredictable and increasingly dangerous North Korea celebrated the fourth of July by launching its own rocket into the air. But this was far from a firework sent to the sky to celebrate a countrys independence. The North Korean regime has successfully launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching Alaska but not the mainland.
At least, not yet.
North Korea is a growing threat to the U.S. as Trump and his generals ponder what to do. The latest weapons test caught American military officials off guard as it included a new type of missile fired from a mobile launch site. There is now growing concern that the Trump administration and its group of neoconservative generals are moving closer to taking military action.
General Vincent Brooks, the top American military commander in South Korea, said on Wednesday that the U.S. and South Korea were prepared to go to war with the North if given the order. This preemptive strike would be catastrophic for the peninsula, on which 28,500 U.S. troops are still stationed and where over 10 million South Koreans live in the city of Seoul, only 35 miles from the border.
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stupid speculation
The location of an NK missile shoot down would be based on our current capabilities. I agree that doing so well away from the mainland is preferable. But I’m at least hopeful that we could do a close in shoot down from a ship. But I can’t name the system that would do it.
How far out to sea can that be extended? I really don’t know. Maybe somebody will pipe in who knows our deployed capability and the intercept range of our shipborn systems.
Yes. And maybe.
A rumor plant might do it. Hey. Jong mentally ill. You are about to have a revolt.
There's probably a lot of stuff we could do, if we had worked hard on SDI for the last 30 years since Ronald first dreamed it.
I don't how much we've done, but I suspect not enough.
It looks like AEGIS is the shipborne anti-ICBM system. Very mature system.
The one that shot down TWA 800!
(I know, bad joke, but I couldn't resist.)
Perhaps what God hath wrought will prove sufficient.
and it would work even better if we could stop running into container ships.
No, it is ours. Nuke em NOW. MacArthur told Truman the damn truth just like Patton told FDR and IKE.
I wonder if South Korea would be willing to launch a lost-soldier offensive. I know. Suuure with the mush in charge now.
It wouldn’t be the worst way to put them out of their misery.
The problem is that the generals aren’t the ones who have to fall on their political swords.
If you do go that route, you have to be prepared for N. Korea to retaliate, and you don't know what they would do, so you lose control of the situation.
It may be better just to bite the bullet and strike them first on your terms.
Well we have a destructive madman in any case.
I pray the Lord would undermine him.
I don't think we'd be this far into saber-rattling unless we and S. Korea thought we could do it.
Fear could have a way of stiffening Seoul’s spine. Let’s show that dear leader some “oppan” (older brother).
And I like the BBQ idea. Leaflet the artillery installations with “surrender and we’ll feed you!”
"Sojah boy, mmmm."
Nice!
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