[bk1000]

I don’t believe it. They said the oceans would be dried up by now too.

[stockpirate]

Let us not forget that Democrats creayed this mess by giving NK a nuke power plant

[WildHighlander57]

No mention of that nork satellite.

[CondorFlight]

We should have acted a dozen years ago. Better for us, and better for the North Korean people, too.

But everyone kicked the can down the road. Now we’re almost at the end of that road.

Easiest way out —regime change in NK.

[gaijin]

Later

[ealgeone]

A look at history shows we LOST the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[gaijin]

Bill Clinton at DMZ peering through binoculars with lens caps still on

[The_Media_never_lie]

But what are we going to do? Wait until they have enough (nuclear weaponized missiles) to make preemption impossible?

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Yes, that is what we are going to do.

[bert]

The Problem is not missiles and warheads, the problem is Kim.

Kim is or seems to be irrational with delusions of grandeur. Kim, the man must be eliminated. A dead Kim will yield lots of change in north Korea. Kim must die

[Sasparilla]

An ICBM wouldn’t be needed. A missile launched from a freighter or submarine off the coast could deliver a nuke at the right altitude.
So could a jet airliner or a cargo plane on a one way trip to 50-60,000 feet.

[Codeflier]

I still suspect EMP damage potential is exaggerated. Maybe one day we will find out though.

[wastedyears]

If they do successfully hit anything, well.. there won’t be much of Nork territory left to look at after that. I bet Trump would press the red button.

[jmaroneps37]

Yes we are all DOOMED DOOMED I tell you! Oh why didn’t we listen and elect the felon? What will we ever do now?

[Pining_4_TX]

9 out of 10 Americans would die? Hmm...

[slumber1]

Airplanes would fall out of the sky, our cars would not start, banking, nearly all non-barter related commerce would cease, and nine out of ten Americans would eventually die due to total societal collapse.

In other words it will be Y2K all over again

[Fitzy_888]

North Korea has a nuclear reactor that is said to be idle for lack of fuel. However, there are said to be as many as 8,000 spent fuel rods on site that are still cooking off. It’s virtually inconceivable to bomb this site as it would create a Chernobyl (unmitigated) with South Korea (possibly China) downwind.

If you were Kim where would you store your warheads and valuable components of your nuclear weapons program? => The one place that will never be bombed.

[Wonder Warthog]

Unless the NORKs know how to neutralize the US SLBM forces, they have to know that an attack of that magnitude on the US is also an “exponential threat” to their entire nation, which will cease to exist. Unfortunately, South Korea will be collateral damage in such a scenario.

[AndyJackson]

Dr. Peter Pry is the Executive Director of the Task Force on National Homeland Security

The reason this has the whiff of a Lyndon LaRouche conspiracy is that this is a private organizations that first wants you to donate money while fraudulently masquerading as some sort of public task force, even though its own documentation demonstrates that it is nothing of the sort.

It is a serious subject, but this Dr. Pry has no published credentials indicating expertise in the area, expertise that is maintained in a few places in the U.S. Government, e.g. Defense Threat Reduction Agency, AFRL, NRL, Sandia National Lab, Lawrence Livermore Lab and Los Alamos National Lab. As near as I can tell, he is associated with none of these organizations.

[AndyJackson]

The clincher here is the statement if we allow the North to fully nuclearize, we could be facing hundreds of millions of Americans dead in an EMP attack; in other words, an existential threat to the US.

EMP is an issue, a big issue. But first one doctrine would treat an EMP just as it would any other nuclear attack - IOWs sure, you can try that but then you become a sheet of green glass.

Second is that Pry is selling a book and a consultancy (this is the D.C. Swamp).

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Manufactured crisis, played up on Kim’s demand for attention.