US President calls emergency meeting over North Korea

Daily mail ^ | July4th 2017 | Staff

[Eyes Unclouded]

President Donald Trump called an emergency meeting on the Fourth of July to formulate a 'measured response' to North Korea's first intercontinental ballistic missile test, amid fears it could reach as far as Alaska. North Korea declared Tuesday that it had finally achieved its dream of building an intercontinental ballistic missile, saying it would 'fundamentally put an end to the US nuclear war threat and blackmail'. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson later confirmed the latest missile test was with an intercontinental ballistic missile.

[MarMema]

Let’s roll!

[palmer]

and/or particle beam weapons (including perhaps some that are not publicly known)

Using them would give China incentive to keep fat boi in power launching test weapons while they analyze our defensive system.

[Mr Apple]

The following is an article that I spotted a few years ago but the url no longer works. I copied and have kept this article though:

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Playing Poker With Korea
Jack Wheeler
Freedom Research Foundation

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Poker Beats Chess

Spearing Yongbyon

North Korea's claim that its Yongbyon five-megawatt nuclear reactor's purpose is to produce electricity is laughable. Five megawatts can light up little more than a good-size trailer park. The only possible purpose for such a graphite-type reactor is to convert uranium into weapons-grade Plutonium 239.

Reactivating the Yongbyon reactor can only mean North Korea intends to produce nuclear bombs. And this leaves GW with only one choice: The reactor must be physically destroyed.

Blowing it up like the Israelis blew up Saddam Hussein's Osirak reactor in 1981 (with bombs dropped by F-16s) is obviously not the best way – far too public, releasing a media firestorm. Far better to destroy it quietly, safely, stealthily and mysteriously.

With a spear. A steel rod 40 feet long and 4 inches in diameter, fin-stabilized, with a needle-sharp tungsten-carbide tip, equipped with a small JDAM guidance package including a GPS. It is non-explosive; there is no warhead.

You've heard of smart bombs. This is a smart spear.

You take a half-dozen of these Smart Spears up in a high-altitude bomber, like a B2 or B52, and drop them over Yongbyon at 50,000 or 60,000 feet. The Smart Spears have such a big sectional density that it will be like a vacuum drop – with no wind resistance, they will be going faster than the speed of sound when they hit their target.

Going so fast and with almost no radar signature, the GPS-guided Smart Spears will punch through the Yongbyon reactor and keep right on going, burying themselves in the earth several hundred feet deep. The North Koreans won't know what happened, and all there will be is some holes in the ground – plus a melted-down reactor.

The time to do this is just after the fuel rods have been inserted into the reactivated reactor and have started to burn. It will take up to three months for the uranium in the rods to be converted to plutonium-239. The fuel rods lie inside water-cooled pipes placed in graphite blocks. If holes are punched through the reactor core, rupturing the pipes, the uranium fuel rods – no longer being cooled with the water drained out – will catch on fire and the entire reactor will melt down.

While much of the radioactive contents and fission fragments will drain down the holes in the reactor floor made by the Smart Spears, some radiation will be released into the atmosphere through the holes punched in the roof. The longer the rods have been burning in the reactor, the more radiation will be released. The earlier the Smart Spears are dropped, the less radiation release.

[Mr Apple]

“I’ve sometimes wondered if the U.S. might already have some rail-launched tungsten rods up in orbit. “

#23

[Windflier]

Nuke li’l Kim gangnam style.

It’s the only way to be sure.

[rockinqsranch]

Have we figured out why President Trump nominated a number of highly regarded Generals to his cabinet yet?

[ealgeone]

A very interesting article.

[Helicondelta]

The author is way off. China is pulling the strings in NK. This test was retaliation for the sale of weapons to Taiwan. Economic sanctions against China is the way to go.

[dr_lew]

This I don’t get. If they were rail-launched into orbit, they would have to be rail-launched again into “sub-orbit”, so what is up there with them to do that?

[Windflier]

A trade war with China is just around the corner. You’ll see.

That's actually the President's best approach. Nothing will spur the Chinese to bring their pit bull to heel, faster than a U.S. trade embargo.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Look at the article. They would have to send it over Russia-a perfect place to ignite it.

[Mr Apple]

Here is the url to the #23 article but it no longer is active.

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/12/30/30344.shtml

[Despot of the Delta]

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

The CBS Evening News said the missile was launched straight up, and then came down over the Sea of Japan.

CBS went on to say that if the missile was launched in a straight line, it could have reached Alaska.

[FreedomStar3028]

That’s not going to stop North Korea from developing ICBMs.

[caww]

That measured response will be ....we’ll take out his complete capability ..and it will be massive....gone.
Kim will also be gone...China will come in and set up a puppet government they control. All this agreed on by super powers because nobody wants to invade N.Korea.....it will be the same but with China controlling.

[Mr Apple]

Perhaps Kim Jung-un will be found floating in that radioactive slush someday.

[OrangeHoof]

Offer your thanks to Bill Clinton for supplying North Korea with the missile technology. Amazing why he’s not in Leavenworth.

[Despot of the Delta]

Mach 12 tungsten would make Kim have a bad day and give us plausible deniability

[longfellowsmuse]

Interesting stuff... thanks for sharing.