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US could wipe out North Korea in 15 minutes, says Gen. Tom McInerney
WFLD-TV ^ | August 9, 2017 | Fox News

Posted on 08/09/2017 5:48:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

FOX NEWS - Retired Gen. Tom McInerney on Monday said the United States has the capability to take out every city in North Korea, if Kim Jong Un were to fire artillery into Seoul, South Korea.

“If he gets our full nuclear retaliatory capability, within minutes after one round going into Seoul, there will be nothing left,” McInerney told Liz Claman on “Countdown to the Closing Bell.” “If you go to Airborne Alert—we used to call it “Chrome Dome”—with nuclear weapons and then we start building up our other forces, et cetera, he will not last 15 minutes.”

The Hermit Kingdom announced Monday it will take “thousands-fold” revenge against the United States after the United Nations imposed new sanctions on the communist country on Saturday. The resolution, approved unanimously by the Security Council on Saturday, comes as a result of Pyongyang’s repeated ballistic missile tests and efforts to develop a nuclear warhead. The sanctions are aimed at the country’s economy, including stopping the expansions of joint ventures and the exports of coal, lead, lead ore, iron, iron ore and seafood.....

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: korea; mcinerney; nknukes; trump; trumpasia; usaf
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To: ClearCase_guy

Of course, we need to act.

We can do a lot more on sanctions.

All this shooting talk just makes NK laugh. NK is playing us and we are falling for it.


41 posted on 08/09/2017 6:14:35 PM PDT by gandalftb
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The last thing Fat Boi sees before his eyeballs melt

"Wait! What that bright flash?"


42 posted on 08/09/2017 6:14:41 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (RuPaul and Yertle - our illustrious Republican leaders up the Hill - God help us!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It could be done in less than a minute with stealth and smart mirvs.


43 posted on 08/09/2017 6:14:57 PM PDT by soycd
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To: SgtHooper

Why would Red China throw away 40 years of modernization and increased trade just to save a tiny country? Who will feed the hundreds of millions of Chinese thrown out of work?


44 posted on 08/09/2017 6:16:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: rktman

“The B61 nuclear bomb is the primary thermonuclear gravity bomb in the U.S. Enduring Stockpile following the end of the Cold War. It is a low to intermediate-yield strategic and tactical nuclear weapon featuring a two-stage radiation implosion design.[1]

The B61 is of the variable yield (”dial a yield”) design with a yield of 0.3 to 340 kilotons in its various mods. “


45 posted on 08/09/2017 6:17:40 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: gandalftb
I completely agree that a deep breath is a good step.

Does no one remember the 'Mouse That Roared'?

What is the NK situation right now? Starving population, totally dependent on an unreliable neighbor for money/food/everything; complete suppression of original thought so no chance of a creative solution internally; etc.

A casual read of Americas involvement in wars will show anyone that once we drop a bomb or shoot some bullets and the adversary surrenders America goes all gooey and wants to rebuild and help out to right the 'wrong' of war.

Any benefit here for NK to provoke an armed response? Free lunch for life, anyone?

Just say'n

46 posted on 08/09/2017 6:18:21 PM PDT by GOPBiker (Thank a veteran, with a smile, every chance you get. You do more good than you can know.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why would Red China throw away 40 years of modernization and increased trade just to save a tiny country? Who will feed the hundreds of millions of Chinese thrown out of work?

Agreed. It's not as if they are enemies with South Korea.

47 posted on 08/09/2017 6:18:36 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Klemper

maybe 4 minutes from nearby subs. conus missiles would need more time just because, well, physics.


48 posted on 08/09/2017 6:19:50 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: GOPBiker

Yes, I mentioned “The Mouse That Roared” as well, and it makes more and more sense.


49 posted on 08/09/2017 6:19:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

50 posted on 08/09/2017 6:20:39 PM PDT by McBuff (ed)
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To: kaehurowing; 2ndDivisionVet
My wife will be very upset if she is not able to watch her favorite K-Dramas.

My Filipina wife agrees. She sees them here in the Philippines, but they are dubbed into Tagalog.

51 posted on 08/09/2017 6:22:19 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: jumpingcholla34

To win the battle might have been to lose the war. We never let the military have its own head. That was constitutionally forbidden. Better that a president could call it short than to have the guy who only has a hammer treat every problem as a nail.

Our problem is now, not then. A mad man is there who is not merely content to make his own country miserable.


52 posted on 08/09/2017 6:22:31 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: DoodleDawg

well russia and china havent done squat to help and japan sends radiation our way every damn day.


53 posted on 08/09/2017 6:23:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: GOPBiker

Good points.

NK economically is doing much better lately. They ship a lot of labor to Chinese factories in Manchuria that are essentially slaves. Most of their wages get sent to the Chinese embassy in Pyongyang and handed over to the NK government.

The government then takes most of the money and sends about 20% to the workers’ families.

Next time you go to a $ store, made in China could be made by NK slave labor.

NK is also sending the same bonded labor to a number of other countries to get foreign currency.


54 posted on 08/09/2017 6:23:18 PM PDT by gandalftb
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To: GOPBiker

Well, for worse or better by worldly standards, that is a Christian ideal.

Maybe Kim really is saying “Blow me down and pick me up.”


55 posted on 08/09/2017 6:24:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You know, if those artillery positions along the DMZ are known, they could get off one, maybe two salvos before the entire area is flattened if the US is on a total war footing.

There isn't much else up to the Yalu River:

56 posted on 08/09/2017 6:25:08 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: gandalftb

That’s kind of chilling if China is doing that. Not everything is even as relatively free as in Beijing.


57 posted on 08/09/2017 6:25:28 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: jumpingcholla34

MacArthur was right about a lot of things. Patton too.


58 posted on 08/09/2017 6:27:34 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Toespi

...and there’s even more of them in Seoul.


59 posted on 08/09/2017 6:28:12 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Years ago there was talk about kinetic bombardment weapons. ..tungsten rods dropping from orbit or delivered by ICBM that strike with the force of a large meteorite. Perfect weapon to take out Little Kim


60 posted on 08/09/2017 6:28:25 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcherhttp://www.stone)
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