U.S. weighs rules for any North Korean missile strike(how to shoot down NK missiles)

Swiss Info ^ | 05/12/05 | Reuters

[Spktyr]

BMD (and to a lesser degree, even regular air defense) is a game of "shoot first, ask stupid questions later and sort it out when its on the ground". Anything that slows the time from launch detection and positive identification to weapons-free and engaging the missile is unnecessary and needs to be eliminated.

When dealing with weapons that can kill millions if they detonate, you don't ask questions, you just open fire until you're absolutely certain that the target is destroyed. Then you shoot it a few more times just in case.

[PhilDragoo]

The U.S. Defense Department is weighing whether a decision to shoot down any suspected inbound North Korean missile should go all the way to the president, a top general told Congress on Wednesday.

This is a joke, right? They're going to be hand-wringing and buck-passing while megatons are incoming?

No, they need to fire at anything headed our way, then report the results--not waste a second seeking permission to fire.

Knock it down, then turn the peninsula north of the 38th parallel into a glass parking lot.

[potlatch]

No, they need to fire at anything headed our way, then report the results--

You are exactly right!

[Squantos]

It is alledged that there are 3 million "tubes" pointed at South Korea and 300,000 of em can deliver rounds accurate or not on Seoul in less that 1 minute.....

By tubes I mean Artillery, MLRS, Heavy and Medium Mortars....etc . Anyone know if this is valid ?

[Travis McGee]

A Cessna 150 was 3 miles from the Whitehouse, causing mass evactuations, and the President didn't find out about the situation until later.

And we are wondering if we should find him in the seconds needed to give a shootdown order on a NK rocket?

[Travis McGee]

Who knows how many of those tubes are loaded and operable in 2005? Who knows if the NK C&C is still intact, that is, would generals pass down the nationally suicidal "Gotterdamerung" order if Kim Jong Il decided to go out in a blaze of glory with a mass attack on Seoul?

[SAMWolf]

Politicians, they'll be the death of us yet.

[SevenofNine]

My suggestion shoot it down SHEESH

BTW guys for the American on the board Target going start selling Kim Jong 11 masterpiece Team America in week of April 17 it being advertise right now at my local SO Cal Target store

[Spktyr]

It's true per all the intel we have, though the number of tubes or rails that can actually range on Seoul is only about 250,000. More than enough to do the city.

[Spktyr]

The current word from defectors and intel is that 85-100% of them are still operable. It is apparently a capital offense in the NK Army to let your artillery piece to be inoperable outside of maintenance times.

That, their nuclear and missile programs, and the rest of their army is where all the money they have that Mentally Il doesn't appropriate goes.

[Squantos]

I thought I'd read that at some point ......They'll rain a whole lot more hurt than one or two low yeild smokers IMO.

Stay safe !

[PhilDragoo]

I have heard from a friend of a friend that the recent North Korean railroad explosion was caused by a space-based weapon.

John Kerry is very concerned that we will continue development of a nuclear bunker buster thus negating the advantage of North Korea in its extensive use of German tunneling machines.

Actually Kerry should encourage our weapons development: If left unchecked, sooner or later the North Korean tunneling efforts will uncover Kerry's original service records.

[Squantos]

Now that's just damn funny .... !

Kerry.....theres a name I can forget easily.

[SevenofNine]

OMGGG rack that LOLOLOL! ROFL

NOW that very funny LOL!

[Jet Jaguar]

I don't know if those numbers are accurate, but that is what I have heard as well.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mark Steyn (click below for entire article):

Take a look at a satellite picture of the peninsula by night: South Korea ablaze in electric light, the North in darkness. In Far East Asia, North Korea’s the hole in the doughnut.

North Korea at Night

[An.American.Expatriate]

Rules are simple:

1. Any unanounced lauch which leaves North Korean airspace - immediate destruction.

2. Any announced lauch which, due to trajectory, could pose a threat, immediate destruction.

Where is the problem??

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #37

In that case, useful idiots have nothing else to do.:-)

[An.American.Expatriate]

Oh, forgot about that - never mind!

[correction to a previous nutty post]
Of course we need to have Senate Debates, and public discussion regarding exactly when (precise to the microsecond) any incoming North Korean missiles should be rendered harmless. We obviously do not want to make an error which could jeopardize our fine relations with the glorious leader and the people of North Korea.

Therefore I propose a 10 year, multidisciplinary study. representatives of the UN and all major NGO's should be given preferential seating on the various committees.

We must determine the potential impact to maritime flora and fauna in the event of a possible interception over the sea.

Furthermore, environmental impact studies will need to be made to ensure that no plant or animal life on land is endangered. Additionally, we must identify "safe zones of impact" and the necessary reaction times in order to ensure that any interception of an errant missile can in no way endanger an environmentally sensitive area.

Since the potential exists that an errant missile could impact any where within the northern Pacific - representatives of all major and minor Islands must also be involved in the discussions.

The first meeting of the commission should take place in Rio de Janeiro. Additional meetings will be held in Rome, Paris, London, and aboard the Queen Mary II (during a tour of the potentially affected regions).

The costs for this 10 year study will be financed by the US Government. Invoices shall be sent and payments are due monthly. A special UN Account, managed by Kojo Annan, will be established to handle the financial matters of the study.

[/correction to a previous nutty post]

[Bald Eagle777]

Definitely