Posted on 09/08/2017 8:21:08 PM PDT by topher
-—to fire a missile at the United States or its allies——
So, what constitutes firing a missile? It would seem that a missile was already fired with a trajectory over the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Is that not “at it’s allies”? Was not that missile fired at Japan? Did Japan order it not shot down?
For better or worse, a small number of Trident D5 missiles later, South Korea would double their land area. In a few years (decades?) their population could expand into the empty land to their north and Korea would once more be unified.
I hope they can hit missiles better than they can miss ships.
Artillery typically does not shoot that far.
That would be 24 Trident D-5 missiles on an OHIO class SSBN, not 16...
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The difference there is we did not have a nation-perp for 9/11. Here we would know that the NORKS did it.
I read the article back in April...
From the article:
Pyongyang has an estimated 4,000 artillery guns and rockets placed on the heights north of Seoul just across the DMZ, many of them on rails so they can be moved into place in time to avoid detection.
According to the article, the North Koreans woulc cross the DMZ after the initial attack. They have quite a few rockets and missiles -- some that reach Japan...
And it is possible North Korea might put Chemical Weapons on the rockets/missiles...
I would tell them “Yes, Jackie Chan is in town!”
A big difference, of course...9/11 involved non-state actors.
Yes, there are rocket-assisted munitions. History has proven that lots of artillery doesn’t necessarily assure large enemy casualties. Please recall the poundings we gave the Japanese before each landing in WWII, only to find them still ready for a big fight. Ditto the beaches of Normandy. Ditto Stalingrad.
For the hidden guns, we now have large aperture radar and earth penetrators, something not available in WWII.
I believe that is constraining our military options -- the fact that North Korea would target civilians.
There were estimates, at one time, of one million dead civilians in Seoul, South Korea.
Then there is the Winter Olympics scheduled in a few months in South Korea.
Basically, the Olympic site is about the same distance from the DMZ as Seoul in.
Also, I am not much of an expert in these matters.
I did, however, read the official US Naval History of World War II by Samuel Morrison -- which was interesting reading...
Targeting civilians is what dictators do. An overwhelming preemptive strike would be the best solution.
It turned out to be a hardware problem on my old Dell Latitude D6xx laptop.
Point is, I thought something was up with North Korea and the Internet was real flaky for that reason...
I tried an old Dell Dimension Desktop computer and I was able to get on the Internet.
I figured nothing was FLAT and GLOWING at that point, or something to that effect...
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