Posted on 03/24/2017 6:50:07 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea will launch another nuclear test in next few days, officials say
By Lucas Tomlinson, Jennifer Griffin Published March 23, 2017 FoxNews.com
U.S. defense officials have seen evidence that North Korea has completed digging new tunnels around the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, but it still has to move more equipment into the area for a possible test, the official added. The Pentagon is keeping a close eye on these looming developments.
NORTH KOREA MISSILE TESTS FAIL SECONDS AFTER LAUNCH, US OFFICIALS SAY
North Korea’s nuclear preparations prompted the U.S. military in recent days to move a surveillance aircraft used to test the air following nuclear explosions to the region. The Air Force WC-135 Constant Phoenix arrived in Japan and will be used to patrol the area off the Korean peninsula in the coming days, according to a separate official.
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The test will be personally witnessed by the rocket scientists from last weeks failed rocket test..........................
Corrected.
If they haven’t been execut,...I mean reprimanded
Commercial satellite imagery of the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site shows that substantial tunnel excavation is continuing at the “North” Portal (previously the “West” Portal), which provided support for the last four of the five declared underground nuclear tests conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The North Portal tunnels provide direct access under Mt. Mantap, where up to 800 meters of overlying rock is available for test containment.
http://38north.org/2017/03/punggye031017/
The rocket scientist from the last launch will be on board as ballast
There is now questions of whether North Korea has prepped a test site designed to test a multistage weapon—e.g., a thermonuclear bomb. If the ground shakes with much higher force than before, then North Korea has demonstrated it can build a bomb in (at minimum) 200 KT range, and the missile warhead could be as powerful as 300 KT. A 300 KT warhead could cause enormous damage in the target area even if the warhead is a mile off from the intended target.
HOW DID WE GET TO THIS POINT?
WHATEVER WE’RE PAYING OUR ‘INTELLIGENCE SERVICES’ IT’S TOO MUCH.
SAME WITH THE ‘STATE DEPARTMENT’.
IF THIS IS THE BEST THEY CAN DO - IF THIS TYPE OF HORROR ‘JUST HAPPENS’ ON THEIR WATCH - THEN LET’S SAVE THE MONEY - AND DISBAND THESE GROUPS.
(well, unless it explodes on launch)
Even if the Norkies screwed up the launch up on their own account, how about a nice international disinformation campaign for the USA to claim credit that a system of sabotage was employed which brought the rocket to smithereens? It would make Pyongyang very angry, but it would be their words against the USA. And might force them to make statements providing even more insight into their launch capabilities. Just saying, we might want to play with their brains. Take credit for their failure.
“Everything starts on Twitter,” Hanham says. Sometimes, she added, when there’s been an underground nuclear test she’ll get a buzz from the US Geological Survey alerting her to the seismic waves. “But usually it's still Twitter — because tweets actually travel faster than the waves of an earthquake.”
Three days after the test launch, the team was confident enough in its reconstruction that Lewis published his analysis on foreignpolicy.com: “North Korea is Practicing for Nuclear War.” The launch wasn’t to test new technology, he wrote, but to practice firing missiles at US bases in Japan.
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/24/15041826/cns-north-korea-nuclear-missile-test-tracking-icbm-analysis
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