then it should be a LIVE fire exercise for us too
Posted on 08/10/2017 8:13:31 AM PDT by mandaladon
Given North Korea's steady progress in building nuclear weapons, it is no longer possible to simply dismiss its threats of destroying American cities and military bases as mere bluster.
As CBS News' David Martin reports, the regime's latest warning included a very specific threat to the U.S.
Sometime in mid-August, North Korea says it is planning for the simultaneous launch of four non-nuclear Hwasong-12 rockets that would fly over the islands of Japan and into the ocean, landing just 18 to 25 miles from the U.S. airbase on the island territory of Guam.
North Korean state television said the launch would be sent as a warning to the U.S. -- pending approval from Kim Jong Un.
The threat came hours after U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis warned that further action by North Korea could lead to "the end of its regime and the destruction of its people."
He spoke on his way to tour the USS Kentucky, a ballistic missile submarine that, by itself, can carry 200 nuclear warheads. North Korea is estimated to have, at most, several dozen nuclear weapons.
When "60 Minutes" went aboard the Kentucky last summer, the sub's captain, Brian Freck, described the destructive power it carries.
"The warheads that can be carried on my missiles are extremely powerful," he said -- "much more powerful" than the American bomb that levelled the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II.
Up to 30 times more powerful, notes Martin, and the Kentucky is just one of several U.S. ballistic missile submarines which, on any given day, are hiding somewhere in the world's oceans.
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Shoot them down and announce they had nuclear warheads on them and that we are updating the targeting and as soon as Kim is located we are firing.
Would love to see CNN’s reporting on that one.
Only missiles on Kwajalen has the ability to hit a ballistic warhead
President Trump should make sure that the Norks and their erstwhile allies such as China and Russia understand that shooting missiles over or near our allies or territories IS an act of war and the U.S. will wage all-out war until the current Nork regime is destroyed.
How does anyone think the Russians would react if the U.S. started dropping missiles off the shores of Cuba?
One scenario.
Divide North Korea into four sectors, like Germany after WWII. Russia, US, China and South Korea, with a plan to eventually reunite with the South in 10 years time. It’s going to be a big job to transition North Korea, and this solution could be agreeable to all interested parties.
The North Korean people ain’t pouring south due to the heavily mined DMZ. They’re definitely heading north because those parts of China next to North Korea have sizable populations of ethnic Koreans.
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then it should be a LIVE fire exercise for us too
LoL, I tried to find it on a globe. It is a speck so small it wasn’t even there.
There isn’t a chance in a million these clowns could hit it.
Sounds suitably insane.
“OUR Intelligence community has a good handle on it.”
Surely you jest.
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