Posted on 08/09/2017 6:39:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
North Korea's military is "examining the operational plan" to strike areas around the US territory of Guam with medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic missiles, state-run news agency KCNA said early Wednesday local time. Specifically, the statement mentioned a potential strike on Andersen Air Force Base designed "to send a serious warning signal to the US." The base is one of two on the Pacific island, which are the closest bases on US soil to North Korea, and represent the westernmost tip of the country's military might.
The North Korea comments were published after US President Donald Trump warned Pyongyang that if it continued to threaten the US, it would "face fire and fury like the world has never seen."
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Roger that. The Chinese could stop this whenever they want. That they’re not indicates they want it to happen and it’s useful for their purposes.
IMHO what China wants is assurances from the US, that if they remove the Nork government, the US would leave the peninsula, effectively placing a united Korea in the Chinese sphere of influence.
Definite possibility.
Shades of the “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.” As they acquire a greater ability to project power, they’ll become more and more aggressive. Just like Japan almost a century ago.
Yep, highly likely. Despite the increasingly hostile attitude among South Koreans towards a U.S. military presence, I'm not sure that they'd be eager to see us go under those circumstances.
Perhaps Trump should take time to mull over the Chinese position - while he re-deploys our nukes to Japan. "Art of the Deal", and all that.
The US will not use nukes.
Yup, and all the FReeper armchair nuke advocates have not considered the repercussions of nuclear fallout on our allies and our personnel in SK.
I remember about a decade ago Friedwardt Winterberg suggested ignition of pure deuterium with a proton beam, producing X-ray and gamma rather than neutrons.
A fission core produces neutrons and x-ray. The neutron component turns lithium into tritium upon demand. The x-ray provides compression energy to increase density and temperature of a fusion deuterium/tritium fuel sufficient for initiating secondary stage. The fissionable and tritium components of conventional nuclear devices are mostly responsible for neutron activation of materials which compose fallout.
Perhaps Winterberg’s work allowed production of a pure fusion initiator sufficient to drive a deuterium fueled, low fallout, and modest yield device?
Everyone is getting whipped up by the media and Trump’s tweets, calm down. This hysteria is nonsense and downright dangerous.
Too many headline readers are completely ignorant of the NK capabilities. NK must be having a big laugh at all our headlines.
The most powerful NK missile, only in theory, could reach about Kansas City, with no payload bigger than a jar of kimchee.
They would have to have another missile stage added on to provide more fuel in boost.
Their best missiles so far are all “truck” launched. They don’t have a truck big enough for a bigger missile. If they did, a bigger heavier missile would get damaged joyriding around NK.
They would have to go to a silo launch with onsite liquid fueling. That’s what every other nuclear power does that wants nukes delivered.
NK has no silos, if they did we would know. Also, all of their orbital apogee missiles have burned up on re-entry, they don’t have adequate heat shields, yet.
Let’s all calm down.
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