North Korea 'Could Kill Almost Four Million People In Retaliatory Nuclear Attack'

The Telegraph ^ | 10/06/17 | Rob Crilly

[Enlightened1]

A US military assault on North Korea could prompt a last gasp retaliatory nuclear attack by Pyongyang on Seoul and Japan killing as many as 3.8 million people, according to a new analysis of the destructive potential of Kim Jong-un arsenal.

Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that all options remain on the table – including the use of force – in dealing with the North Korean threat.

However, analysts say the US is hamstrung by Pyongyang’s growing weapons stockpile and the fact that major population centres lie well within its range.

A detailed analysis by 38 North, a programme at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, has crunched the numbers, based on North Korea’s likely arsenal of as many as 25 weapons with possible yields of up to 250 kilotons, of the sort tested last month.

Using population density figures and blast radius estimates, Michael Zaguruk, calculated that a single detonation over Seoul could kill almost 800,000 people and over Tokyo would kill almost 700,000.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Russia is helping NK, IMO.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[txnativegop]

Can this nut job hit the entire Continental US? or just a portion of it?

[servantboy777]

WWIII right around the corner...in my lil ol pinion.

[Gay State Conservative]

If we fail to take out his ability to retaliate he probably would...unless his top people refuse to follow orders.IMO the only two viable options today are for his top people to rebel or us getting 100 or so snipers into NK to get to the top people.

This is an issue that should have been dealt with within days of their first nuke test.

[glennaro]

So I guess we’re supposed to “negotiate” with the Norks until they are capable of killing “almost 8 million people” before destroying them ...

[gaijin]

[lightman]

Rocket Boy has a problem with premature detonation—when he can even get them up.

Until they weaponize Viagra I’m not worrying.

[Huskrrrr]

Surprised her lips are not on his butt cheeks.

[piasa]

North Korea ‘Could Kill Almost Four Million People In Preemptive Nuclear Attack’

Funny how the media doesn’t think about that.

[LouieFisk]

“Can this nut job hit the entire Continental US? or just a portion of it?”
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/far-can-north-korean-missiles-travel

[EQAndyBuzz]

Get a night where the wind is blowing northward and nuke the front line. NK will never know what hit it.

[Williams]

Think about it we delivered two atom bombs to wartime Japan with a propeller driven airplane. Obviously NK can get atom bombs to various locations.

[KavMan]

How can that happen?

Once we strike them, won't we be able to disable all their nuclear arsenal?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

It’s a very delicate situation. Seoul is only 40 miles from the DMZ border. China is over the border from NK.

[vooch]

Yawn - the neon cons must realize their lies are no
longer being accepted

[End Times Sentinel]

Most of the time, death tolls are well short of what you'd mathematically assume. Run the numbers for 9-11 and the Twin Towers alone would be MUCH higher (floors, people per, how fast they collapsed), same thing with Las Vegas (10:30, 22,000 targets, tremendous height advantage, and virtually automatic weapons).

So, even with that in mind, considering the Norks have a huge amount of artillery and rocket sites that can reach the Seoul metro area, that number could be quite a bit higher, and that's discounting nuke/chem/bio weapons.

[sparklite2]

The longer we wait, the worse it’s going to get.
If Hitler had been attacked early on, he was prepared to stand down with little gain. But we know what happened.

[txnativegop]

Thank you, depressing but thank you.