N. Korean Underground Tunnels, Impregnable Fortresses against Nuclear Attack(Russians involved)

Segye Ilbo ^ | 07/04/05 | Chang In-soo

[TigerLikesRooster]

Some accounts from this article may seem exaggerated. After all, the defector could have been told from others about how well tunnels would withstand WMD attacks or how they fare under completely sealed environment. He may not have expert knowledge to judge such claims. I think he gave what he knew or was told while in N. Korea. Still, he gave very useful account of how tunnels are made. It is quite intriguing to hear that Russia has been helping out N. Korea's efforts to conceal tunnels from U.S. satellite detection. As more time pass by, we find more Russian shenanigans to surreptitiously help N. Korea to undermine its rivals(or enemies.) This is really bad. This also means that Russia may have a pretty good idea of where many important underground tunnels are located. I am not sure that they will turn over such information to U.S. or its allies.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Our intelligence services should be active in Moscow then, finding out exactly where each of these are, all ingress and egress points.

When the big fight comes, each of these cuold be effectively sealed with explosive ordinance and then further sealed with thick concrete, and communications in and out of said bunkers disrupted by constant radio wave interference. If they want to sit underground for three years, doing nothing, living on limited rations and air, and then slowly starving to death after that, fine. We could in fact put funeral tablet stones at the entrance of each of these caves when we seal them, and state in one of them, lies the Great Leader himself. As the country above ground busily remakes itself into a democracy and readies for unification with the South.

[RockinRight]

So then we just have to nuke them into oblivion without warning...

[angkor]

With all that world-class North Korean and Russian engineering, the tunnels will be decaying within 5 years or less.

[Jet Jaguar]

Fascinating.

Thanks for the the ping.

[JZelle]

"If they want to sit underground for three years, doing nothing, living on limited rations and air, and then slowly starving to death after that, fine."

Aren't they already living like this, only above ground?

[nw_arizona_granny]

Tunnels in N. Korea, with Russia's help.

Thanks to Tiger for this information.

[LRS]

...." This underground tunnel is for wartime command post, which can command and control the entire population of a city, and is safe from nuclear attack.

A population of ghosts?

5 meter in front of the door to command tunnel in City H. of N. Ham-kyong Province, they made an artificial hill of 1,500 cubic meters. Upon enemy's nuclear or chemical attack, an alert bell would be sounded. Then a commander, with mere push of a button, can detonate explosives buried inside the hill. After the explosion, the entrance to the tunnel would be completely covered with dirts,...

...and save us the trouble ...

[LRS]

No. 1 tunnel is for storing items of personality cults, such as statues and portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il.

I don't doubt such insanity on their part!

[Finalapproach29er]

Neutron bomb, perhaps?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #10

To them, they are holy objects. They will be all destroyed once Kim's regime falls, though.

[Thermalseeker]

"If they want to sit underground for three years, doing nothing, living on limited rations and air, and then slowly starving to death after that, fine."

Aren't they already living like this, only above ground?

From what I've read their population is already starving to death. The government has put out propoganda films in which they claim that grass is a food staple. The average size of a North Korean soldier has significantly diminished over the past couple of decades due to malnutrition. Except for their nukes, these folks could never, ever sustain themselves in a prolonged battle. They have to know that a nuke strike against the USA or any of it's allies means the whole of their country being turned into a smoking hole in the ground.

[Little Ray]

I doubt these accounts are exaggerated. The North Koreans have been tunneling like moles for over 50 years.

[LRS]

To them, they are holy objects. They will be all destroyed once Kim's regime falls, though.

The fate of ego maniacs...

[HIDEK6]

I don't see the problem here.

Let's say we're going to nuke 'em, then let them seal themselves in the caves.

When they pop their heads out, fly a squadron of B-52s overhead and let them duck into the tunnels again.

Keep 'em there for about 50 years.

[Calpernia]

bump

ping

[COBOL2Java]

The North Koreans have been tunneling like moles for over 50 years.

Maybe with some help from this guy...

[COBOL2Java]

When they pop their heads out, fly a squadron of B-52s overhead and let them duck into the tunnels again.

Gives new meaning to "Whack a Mole"...

[theFIRMbss]

>Enough food to last for 3 years

So, three years later,
they come out alive, and, what?
Trinitite markets?