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US: North Korean Missile Launch a 'Catastrophic' Failure (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: North Korea failed to launch an intermediate-range missile on Friday, multiple news outlets, citing American and South Korean military officials, are reporting. The failure, The Washington Post reports, caused the regime an embarrassing blow on the most important day of the year on the North Korean calendar. For those unaware, North Korea had planned -- and tried -- to launch a missile to mark the 104th anniversary of the birthday of the country's 'eternal president,' Kim Il Sung.ABC further reports: "It was a fiery, catastrophic attempt at a launch that was unsuccessful," Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said Friday. U.S. officials are still assessing, but it was likely a road-mobile missile, given that it was launched from a location not usually used for ballistic missile launches, on the country's east coast, he said. The UN Security Council issued a statement saying its members "strongly condemned" the North's firing of a ballistic missile, which it said constituted a clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions although the launch was a failure. "We strongly condemn North Korea's missile test in violation of U.N. Security Council Resolutions, which explicitly prohibit North Korea's use of ballistic missile technology," the official said.
I feel bad for the rocket scientists who are gonna be executed in some horrible way...
They don't have real nukes or ballistic missiles, yes, as that needs tech. They do have, though, an enormous number of 1950-era pieces of conventional artillery that would kill millions in northern parts of South Korea. This includes Seoul which is close to the border and whose metro area makes up roughly half of South Korea's population.
And that artillery is well dug-in in mountainous terrain so even nuking them wouldn't stop the carnage.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
And that artillery is well dug-in in mountainous terrain so even nuking them wouldn't stop the carnage.
Nuking within 50 miles of Seoul would be counterproductive if your goal were to avoid deaths in South Korea, but I wouldn't be too sure about the above claim. 1950s-era artillery typically requires manual operation - killing the soldiers near it will prevent it from firing. Even if it's dug in, fuel-air bombs that either burn them out or make the air unbreathable would likely remove the threat, though it may not be politically feasible to kill that many people.
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Nobody who even remotely counts is starving in North Korea. Did you take a look at that fatso Kim lately? Yes, the peasants are starving, but who gives a shit about them?
The very last thing Kim and his cronies are going to do is upset someone who could end their comfortable rule. They know exactly if they as much as sneezed into the direction of SKor or Japan the reply would be devastating, so they keep it at pretending to be big boys. The whole show is mostly directed at their own population to show just how mighty they are and how much they have to spend on defending against the imperialists who would immediately end their Juche paradise if they didn't.
Read your 1984, it's well described therein.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
There are anti-gun radar that can pinpoint the location of the gun accurately. The gun fires two or three shells to estimate the range, it waits for the shell to land, get the feedback to adjust the firing angle, azimuth and elevation. But before it could fire the next shell, it would be receiving counter strikes, anti gun radar and other technology has become that good. So dug in artillery pieces are sitting ducks. Shoot and scoot can fire a few shells randomly and run, but it could not strike with accuracy.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
North Korea doesn't need an objective. They are better armed than alqueda, and their leadership goes through child like hissy fits if they are not given enough attention. Seriously go through news history. If you are paying attention nothing will get said about North Korea for months and then they do something like this.
Actually now that I think about maybe Kim is related to Kim(kardshian)
So you give them a little attention, pretend they are adults and let them screw it up. Unlike a child you can't displine a country, especially one that has a parent that forgives everything(China).
Though even China is starting to get tired of it they have to save face and so the charade goes on for another generation
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
He might just have a near endless supply of rocket scientists. The problem being that they're not particularly *good* rocket scientists.
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