Posted on 05/14/2017 4:15:41 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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So, this will be their first successful test.
They have had what, 3-4 launches in the past few months?
After Trump took office they went haywire.
Interesting.
Stating the obvious, but it’s simply a matter of time before they’re capable of hitting the lower 48.
Why are our troops in South Korea, 50 plus years after the fact? The South Koreans more than capable of their own defense.
Because we know that if we withdraw, SK will fall to the North in a matter of days?
By staying, we allow their SK's politicians to go around masquerading as holier-than-thou leftists, espousing a philosophy basically borrowed from John Lennon.
There doesn't seem to be a whole lot northwest of Pyongyang.
Between Pyongwon and Taedong?
South Korea has twice the population and 50 times the economy of the North. They have far more sophisticated and functioning weapons. They can afford to buy the best of the best.
Why are we in the middle of this civil war?
The North has a military as well. Better than all the ME countries if I’m remembering correctly, and would likely be backed by China/Russia in a war with the South.
We’re involved because of treaties, and other world powers are involved. See above.
We have had relative peace in Korea for 64 years now.
That's why we remained. It's why we're still there.
The same goes for Germany.
Good questions, all.
“Why are we in the middle of this civil war?”
Because we aren’t just in the middle of a civil war, dunderhead. Soon they will be able to reach our mainland with a nuclear missile. As another Freeper pointed out above, if the N. Koreans were to hit a Japanese nuclear facility with its missiles, all that nuclear radiation would waft over to our continent via the trade winds. They are a THREAT to us, and many others in the world, and they tell us out front what they want to do. Sheesh.
That would be global catastrophe. Not only would the radiation spread to the east over the pacific and to the US west coast, the radiation would spread into the pacific killing an innumerable amount of sea life.
Wormwood anyone?
That wouldn’t affect just America. It would effect every single person on the globe.
Someone could do it without even using a nuke.
Ya that would be a really bad bad thing.
IT only traveled 420 miles.....it won’t reach the USA. Not even close by a long shot. Wake me up when the get one to travel 2000 miles distance.
Yes, but look at how high it went first.Higher than the space station.
Why?
1) Domino theory. Or have you forgotten how aggressively communism was spread during the cold war.
2) Nuclear Deterent. Or are you oblivious to Chia Head Jr’s constant threats and apparent progress.
3) Axis of Evil. It’s not just NK. They work with Iran and Syria. And probably some other bad guys.
4) China. Have you forgotten that China is still a communist country? Have they not espoused expansionist attitudes and actions towards Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam and India?
You might not want to be too dismissive.
I believe that is about the range of this missile.
It I believe, I heard, can hit the west coast.
??? Germany and SK cannot afford to build and buy the best military equipment available? We shouldnt be at either country, including Japan.
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