Me? Responsible? Inconceivable!
Posted on 04/04/2013 7:52:18 PM PDT by Kartographer
The most probable outcome of all these tensions is a low-level "tactical" strike from North Korea. But don't worry, it'll be "a relatively small attack that won’t leave many people dead," Sue Mi Terry, a Columbia University professor who served as a senior analyst on North Korea at the CIA from 2001 to 2008, told Wired's Spencer Ackermann.
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/johnny
Me? Responsible? Inconceivable!
No, I don’t.
There was a Google translation published yesterday (by you?) and there it says that those are mini subs, they cannot stay submerged for long. This means they are only usable for a short mission, probably to deliver divers or mines. SK and Japan may be within range, but they can't cross the ocean. Those subs will become visible very soon (or never.)
I sincerely hope that ROK is not going to have feeble response (Cheonan) or proportional one (shelling of Yeongpeong (sic) Island) where they intentionally limit damage on the NK side by hitting off targets and hitting empty buildings
Lol, sez you! But then, you weren't HERE during the first round........
Seems there are several with vitiligo in that pic.
that is highly unlikely. They are unlikely to appreciate a nuclear armed Kim regime.
It wasn’t by me. But though they are small submarines they are what people generally think of as ‘midget subs’, The two ‘torpedo’ subs are small 130-ton, 30-meter, 10-man machines that can stay submerged for three-to-four days.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-03/two-north-korean-submarines-disappeared
By the way it is one of these small subs that is suspected to have sunk a South Korean ship, the 1,200-ton corvette Cheonan in 2010.
Pong :)
(Where is that dad gummed satellite now?
Needs a hacker to deactivate it, reprogram its flight path, and dump it on NK Son of Chia Pet’s head )
LOL!!
You’re right.
at what altitude does it start becoming a fireball?
Wonder how far they can go from NK in three to four days?
One way trip?
“.....a relatively small attack that won’t leave many people dead...”
Another calloused, elitist leftist.
I wonder if that is the puppet obama’s attitude too? How “many people dead” is he willing to accept? 10, 20, 100, 3000 or a million.
What has this incompetent administration set in motion? What a disgrace!
Pray folks..this all we have left.
Oh,OK I guess we just bomb them back to the bronze Age then.
However those mini-subs do not need to stay submerged all the time, as it is customary among larger subs. They can surface at night and go on diesels; in the morning they dive and go a little on electric, then stop and wait. This extends their operational range quite a lot, but I don't know how seaworthy those subs are. 100 tons is not that much when you talk about ships. A typical 17th century Spanish galleon displaced 508 tons of water, but still crossing the ocean in it was not a walk in the park.
This means that if those mini-subs carry nukes, they can be on their way to San Francisco. But they won't arrive in three days; they will need at least a couple of weeks. The window in this room is oriented toward SF, and the city is about 50 miles away. If anything untoward happens there I will be one of the first to know.
do you believe our present C&C has the cojones to do ours??
Unfortunately, our Cinc has come to realize that he is
being constrained by our form of government and would
like nothing more than a nice conflict to make the
transformation of America complete.
Watch for it.
Zero to Kim:
We have stockpiled mountains of harsh words.
Our forces of mild rebuke are at a hair trigger status.
My State Department flacks are poised to invade the chambers of the
UN at a moment’s notice and beg for a weak sanction.
I could have a whole flotilla of ships steaming at full throttle to North Korean ports to deliver proper rewards for bad behavior.
Zero brandishing a pen) “Don’t make me use this Kim!!!”
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