Posted on 08/13/2017 6:06:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
A confidential Central Intelligence Agency assessment of North Koreas re-entry vehicles indicates the country has what it needs to carry out a nuclear strike on the continental U.S., sources knowledgable about the report told The Diplomat.
North Korea conducted its second test of the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile in late July, and while the CIA assesses that the re-entry vehicle did not survive the lofted test, it assumes that the re-entry vehicle would perform properly if the missile were fired along a normal trajectory, the sources with direct knowledge of the assessment told The Diplomat.
The CIA assesses that the lofted trajectory put additional stress on the re-entry vehicle, causing it to fail during testing, but believes that the technology would probably not encounter performance problems on a minimum energy trajectory.
The U.S. has sought comfort and a sense of security by denying that North Korea could produce an ICBM, by refusing to accept that North Korea could miniaturize a nuclear warhead, and by consistently highlighting North Koreas inability to develop a functional re-entry vehicle.
But the latest report indicates the U.S. is running out of excuses to downplay the North Korean nuclear threat.
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“Bet you 1,000,000 bitcoins that we have assets in place to knock down any unannounced missile lauch.”
Why didnt these assets intercept the missile as it was heading up over the Sea of Japan?
Or during the long re-entry toward Japan? A slight change in trajectory the last few minutes would have hit Japan.
IMO, they called our bluff and gave us an easy target right over our ships and toward Japan. And we did nothing. Very disappointing...
Of course only 50% of their launches get off the pad. :-)
Who knows, maybe northy morky Kim wants to live ‘underground’ in some South American hellhole the rest of his life - - after North Korea ceases to exist...
It occurred to me you were being sarcastic but I read a long interview with an expert on ChiaHead who said he has been very open about his targets. They were the Pacific Fleet in San Diego, NYC, DC, and more recently Chicago.
I never bought into the Guam thing for one minute.
More recently however we wondered if he could possibly hit all of his targets simultaneously.
...unless he thinks there's nothing to lose. On a side note, now that we know NK was much farther along than we were told, one has to wonder where Iran is with their efforts.
It is simply that now he has made the progress to do it.
On the positive side I read and believe these are very small nukes and he can probably not even land them. It would be like dirty bombs going off over the target.
Why don’t we add the Supreme Courts that gave us;
RvW
Justices voting for;
Justice Warren Burger - Born - St. Paul
Justice William O. Douglas - Born - Maine
Justice William J. Brennan - Born - Newark
Justice Potter Stewart - Born - New Hampshire
Justice Thurgood Marshall - Born - Baltimore
Justice Harry Blackmun - Born - Illinois
Justice Lewis Powell - Born - Virginia
Justice William Rehnquist - Born - Wisconsin
Obergefell v. Hodges
Justices voting for;
Justice Kennedy - Born - Sacramento
Justice Ginsberg - Born - NYC
Justice Breyer - Born - SF, CA
Justice Sotomayor- Born - NYC
Justice Kagan - Born - NYC
FAKE NEWS
Re-entry isn’t needed to pop an EMP over the US.
I don’t buy it...It’s too simplistic...Lil Kim is going to shoot a missile toward the U.S. hoping it hits something while knowing it’s probably the last thing he and his generals will do???
I don’t think this guy wants to die...He wants to defeat S. Korea...I think there’s a lot more to this than we understand...
The NK ballistic missile submarine photos look like they are circa 1960 and are unconfirmed.
NK is being puppeteered by International Elites and other Soros-like actors who hate Trump.
The stagecraft at Charlottesville is evidence they were losing the NK war-game to Trump and needed to change the channel quick.
Thank you for highlighting most important part of my post; well-oiled Elitist stagecraft:
The stagecraft at Charlottesville is evidence they were losing the NK war-game to Trump and needed to change the channel, quick.
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