BRING 'EM ON!!!!!
We will not cower before the North Koreans because we have the .................
EXOATMOSPHERIC KILL VEHICLE
I'm proud to say I was one of the engineers that helped design this puppy.
Posted on 08/03/2004 7:31:06 AM PDT by HAL9000
North Korea is deploying two new missile systems which could enable it to threaten the continental United States for the first time, Jane’s Defence Weekly reported today.American officials had previously claimed that North Korea was developing missiles, based on the Soviet submarine-launched SSN6, which were capable of hitting the United States.
Jane’s said the new missiles, apparently based on SSN6, have a range of 1,500 miles or more.
“The submarine-launched ballistic missile or ship-mounted version of this new system is potentially the most threatening,” Jane’s reported.
“It would fundamentally alter the missile threat posed by the DPRK and could finally provide its leadership with something that it has long sought to obtain – the ability to directly threaten the continental US.”
North Korea gained some of the technical data for the system when it bought 12 decommissioned Russian Foxtrot-class and Golf II-class submarines from Japanese scrap dealers in 1993, Jane’s said.
Jane’s said North Korea is also believed to have had help from Russian missile manufacturer Makeyev.
Looks like its time for another railroad accident.
we never hear anymore about the nkorean missile that landed in alaska during xxxlinton's reign-o-terror
Oh, please lob one over here... Just once, pleeeeeeease????
No, but Clinton did announce last week that "we are not going to go to war with Iran or North Korea", ruling out a military response if North Korea aims or fires those missles at us.
Thank you, Billy Jeff Clinton and Madeleine Albright, for doing such a wonderful job of protecting this country. This is just swell.
USA's Nukes reply with laughter.
More Bush bashing I see. The President IS dealing forcefully with North Korea. From www.whitehouse.gov
The President recognizes that different threats require different strategies. He is working with other nations to ensure that North Korea and Iran abandon their nuclear ambitions and join the world community in preventing the spread of dangerous weapons
Wow North Korea really wants to be a parking lot for the South Koreans and the Chinese huh?
No you are Bush bashing. I don't think any of us have any clue what is going on behind the scenes with North Korea and the last thing this President needs is a bunch of armchair QBs criticizing him thereby giving fodder to John Kerry in the midst of an election cycle.
What you ought to be doing is showing your support for the President, not bashing him 3 months before election day.
You may not hear about it, but I still hear it every day as it sizzles in my backyard. Damn thing is too heavy to move, it's ruined my lawn and trees, and the last litter of pups all had two bodies/one head......I need reparations.
BRING 'EM ON!!!!!
We will not cower before the North Koreans because we have the .................
I'm proud to say I was one of the engineers that helped design this puppy.
USA has other exotic stuff too, including beam babyburners, krispy creamy donut holes, ghost skyraiders launched by satellite and perigee pepper spray, if you get my drift...
Reuters hack at it.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040803/ts_nm/korea_north_missiles_dc_1
New N. Korean Missiles Said to Threaten U.S.
Mark Trevelyan
BERLIN (Reuters) - North Korea (news - web sites) is deploying new land- and sea-based ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads and may have sufficient range to hit the United States, according to the authoritative Jane's Defense Weekly.
In an article due to appear Wednesday, Jane's said the two new systems appeared to be based on a decommissioned Soviet submarine-launched ballistic missile, the R-27.
It said communist North Korea had acquired the know-how during the 1990s from Russian missile specialists and by buying 12 former Soviet submarines which had been sold for scrap metal but retained key elements of their missile launch systems.
Jane's, which did not specify its sources, said the sea-based missile was potentially the more threatening of the two new weapons systems.
"It would fundamentally alter the missile threat posed by the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and could finally provide its leadership with something that it has long sought to obtain -- the ability to directly threaten the continental U.S.," the weekly said.
Apart from targeting the United States, South Korea (news - web sites) or Japan, cash-strapped North Korea might seek to sell the technology to countries that have bought its missiles in the past, with Iran a prime candidate, the article added.
Ian Kemp, news editor of Jane's Defense Weekly, said North Korea would only spend the money and effort on developing such missiles if it intended to fit them with nuclear warheads.
"It's pretty certain the North Koreans would not be developing these unless they were intended for weapons of mass destruction warheads, and the nuclear warhead is far and away the most potent of those," he told Reuters.
NUCLEAR POTENTIAL UNCLEAR
North Korea pulled out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in January 2003 and is locked in long-running crisis talks with the United States, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea over terms for scrapping its atomic weapons program.
The extent of that program remains unclear, although North Korea's deputy foreign minister was quoted as telling a senior U.S. official last year that Pyongyang possessed nuclear weapons.
Jane's said the new land-based system had an estimated range of 2,500 to 4,000 km (1,560 to 2,500 miles), and the sea-based system, launchable from a submarine or a ship, had a range of at least 2,500 km.
"If you can get a missile aboard a warship, in particular aboard a submarine...you can move your submarine to strike at targets such as Hawaii or the United States, just as examples. Whereas it would be much more difficult to actually develop a ground-launched missile to achieve that sort of a range," Kemp said.
Until now only the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China have been known to possess submarine-launched nuclear weapons, although there has been speculation that Israel has a similar capability.
Jane's said North Korea appeared to have acquired the R-27 technology from Russian missile experts based in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk. It said one such group was detained in 1992 when about to fly to North Korea, but others visited later.
It said Pyongyang was also helped by the purchase, through a Japanese trading company, of 12 decommissioned Russian Foxtrot-class and Golf II-class submarines which were sold for scrap in 1993.
It said the missiles and electronic firing systems had been removed, but the vessels retained their launch tubes and stabilization sub-systems.
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