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North Korea Likely To Launch 'A Relatively Small Attack (shorten)
Business Insider ^ | 4/4/13 | Geoffrey Ingersoll

Posted on 04/04/2013 7:52:18 PM PDT by Kartographer

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To: dfwgator
Well... duh..

/johnny

81 posted on 04/04/2013 9:37:40 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: chris37

Me? Responsible? Inconceivable!

82 posted on 04/04/2013 9:40:13 PM PDT by Dagnabitt
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To: Kartographer

No, I don’t.


83 posted on 04/04/2013 9:42:05 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: Kartographer
What I like to know is where are North Korea's subs right now?

There was a Google translation published yesterday (by you?) and there it says that those are mini subs, they cannot stay submerged for long. This means they are only usable for a short mission, probably to deliver divers or mines. SK and Japan may be within range, but they can't cross the ocean. Those subs will become visible very soon (or never.)

84 posted on 04/04/2013 9:47:14 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: Kartographer

I sincerely hope that ROK is not going to have feeble response (Cheonan) or proportional one (shelling of Yeongpeong (sic) Island) where they intentionally limit damage on the NK side by hitting off targets and hitting empty buildings


85 posted on 04/04/2013 9:47:52 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: laplata
The next round will make the first look like a pic-nic.

Lol, sez you! But then, you weren't HERE during the first round........


86 posted on 04/04/2013 9:49:53 PM PDT by potlatch (~be content with small victories and simple pleasures~)
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To: JoeProBono

Seems there are several with vitiligo in that pic.


87 posted on 04/04/2013 9:54:05 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Eagles6

that is highly unlikely. They are unlikely to appreciate a nuclear armed Kim regime.


88 posted on 04/04/2013 9:54:13 PM PDT by WhiskeyX (The answer is very simple and easy to understand economics. The U.S. Treasury is printing vast)
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To: Greysard

It wasn’t by me. But though they are small submarines they are what people generally think of as ‘midget subs’, The two ‘torpedo’ subs are small 130-ton, 30-meter, 10-man machines that can stay submerged for three-to-four days.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-03/two-north-korean-submarines-disappeared


89 posted on 04/04/2013 9:56:40 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Greysard

By the way it is one of these small subs that is suspected to have sunk a South Korean ship, the 1,200-ton corvette Cheonan in 2010.


90 posted on 04/04/2013 10:03:42 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: laplata

Pong :)

(Where is that dad gummed satellite now?
Needs a hacker to deactivate it, reprogram its flight path, and dump it on NK Son of Chia Pet’s head )


91 posted on 04/04/2013 10:08:15 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: WildHighlander57

LOL!!

You’re right.


92 posted on 04/04/2013 10:09:35 PM PDT by laplata (The Answer To 1984 Is 1776)
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To: Battle Hymn of the Republic

at what altitude does it start becoming a fireball?


93 posted on 04/04/2013 10:10:46 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Kartographer

Wonder how far they can go from NK in three to four days?

One way trip?


94 posted on 04/04/2013 10:16:33 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: Kartographer

“.....a relatively small attack that won’t leave many people dead...”

Another calloused, elitist leftist.

I wonder if that is the puppet obama’s attitude too? How “many people dead” is he willing to accept? 10, 20, 100, 3000 or a million.

What has this incompetent administration set in motion? What a disgrace!

Pray folks..this all we have left.


95 posted on 04/04/2013 10:44:22 PM PDT by BlessingsofLiberty (Remember Brian Terry...)
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To: Kartographer

Oh,OK I guess we just bomb them back to the bronze Age then.


96 posted on 04/04/2013 10:46:31 PM PDT by Cheapskate (Play loud and carry BIG sticks!)
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To: WildHighlander57
For some reason, speed of submarines is usually classified. But if we just guess at 20 knots, 3 days yield 1,600 miles. The distance from NK to Hawaii, passing between Honshu and Hokkaido (which is suicide for NK boats,) is 4,900 miles. There is absolutely no way for those mini-subs to get anywhere in the Pacific within this time. Even the best nuclear subs would be hard pressed to get into position that fast.

However those mini-subs do not need to stay submerged all the time, as it is customary among larger subs. They can surface at night and go on diesels; in the morning they dive and go a little on electric, then stop and wait. This extends their operational range quite a lot, but I don't know how seaworthy those subs are. 100 tons is not that much when you talk about ships. A typical 17th century Spanish galleon displaced 508 tons of water, but still crossing the ocean in it was not a walk in the park.

This means that if those mini-subs carry nukes, they can be on their way to San Francisco. But they won't arrive in three days; they will need at least a couple of weeks. The window in this room is oriented toward SF, and the city is about 50 miles away. If anything untoward happens there I will be one of the first to know.

97 posted on 04/04/2013 10:47:14 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: Kartographer

do you believe our present C&C has the cojones to do ours??

Unfortunately, our Cinc has come to realize that he is
being constrained by our form of government and would
like nothing more than a nice conflict to make the
transformation of America complete.

Watch for it.


98 posted on 04/04/2013 10:59:56 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Graybeard58
What will obama do? Perhaps send a strong objecting letter to the North?

Zero to Kim:

We have stockpiled mountains of harsh words.

Our forces of mild rebuke are at a hair trigger status.

My State Department flacks are poised to invade the chambers of the
UN at a moment’s notice and beg for a weak sanction.

I could have a whole flotilla of ships steaming at full throttle to North Korean ports to deliver proper rewards for bad behavior.

Zero brandishing a pen) “Don’t make me use this Kim!!!

99 posted on 04/04/2013 11:10:07 PM PDT by QT3.14 (Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain.)
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To: smoothsailing

100 posted on 04/05/2013 2:54:38 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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