Are Some of North Korea's Long-Range Missiles Fakes?

gbrumfiel writes "North Korea has not been shy in announcing plans to destroy the United States, but questions remain over whether it has the nukes or the missiles to do so. Now NPR reports on open-source intelligence showing that one of the North's most 'advanced' weapons might actually be a decoy. Six KN-08 missiles were paraded last year, but each showed differences in the way they were assembled. Is it all a bluff? Or are the missiles part of a real program?"

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Re:Let's nuke them to be sure

[TWiTfan]

They have a well-trained modern military with over 1.2 million well-armed soldiers massed along the border (using pretty modern Chinese armour, vehicles, and weapons). On the other side, you have some 600,000 shitty South Korean soldiers who would probably drop their guns and run at the first sign of attack and about 30,000 U.S. soldiers who would probably be quickly evacuated out in the event of war. At best South Korea might be able to stall a Northern attack long enough to bring in some air support from the U.S. and MAYBE hold Seoul. But even that is unlikely.

Make no mistake about it, the North is a very real threat to South Korea. And don't think for a second that 30,000 U.S. soldiers in the DMZ are even going to try to fight 1.1 million North Koreans. When I was stationed there, they basically told us that we were toast is the North ever decided to attack. And that was back in the 80's, when we had even more soldiers there than we do now.