NKorea Missiles on the way?

[thør]

NKorea says South, US are within its missile range

I dislike be closer to N Korea than most of the US.

 

[Squibbs]

You have a Canadian buffer zone.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

October 9, 2012

In 1998, the North sent up a rocket called the Taepodong-1 that flew over Japan and crashed into the Pacific. In 2006, the North launched
the Taepodong-2, which exploded seconds after liftoff. It launched yet another long-range rocket, the Unha-2, in 2009; its first two stages
appeared to work, but according to American and South Korean officials, the third stage never separated.

In April of this year, the Unha-3 rocket disintegrated in midair shortly after liftoff, a failure that the new government in Pyongyang publicly
acknowledged.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/10/w...siles-can-reach-us-mainland.html?amp&amp&_r=0

 

[Mike_Yates]

NKorea says South, US are within its missile range

I dislike be closer to N Korea than most of the US.

If they do that, it will result in the utter obliteration of their entire country!

And yeah, within a few years, they might have missiles that can reach the western-most coast of Alaska.

 

[thør]

You have a Canadian buffer zone.

You think so? Perhaps a Canadian backstop?

 

[hogjack]

I purchased and installed a re-furbished 1960s bunker.

Bring it on, bitches!

 

[kbate]

Guam is U.S. Territory.

 

[KingOrfeo]

NKorea says South, US are within its missile range

NKorea says a lot of things.

 

[Wok]

NKorea says South, US are within its missile range

I dislike be closer to N Korea than most of the US.

Probably not. Even if they did, they would be dumb to try.

 

[dirtycarol]

If I remember correctly, didn't Japan threaten total war with N.Korea if they kept their stupidity up?

 

[RoryN]

NKorea says South, US are within its missile range

They've been saying this for a long time.

 

[Wok]

If I remember correctly, didn't Japan threaten total war with N.Korea if they kept their stupidity up?

They have.

 

[thør]

Probably not. Even if they did, they would be dumb to try.

Indeed, so.....

 

[Wok]

Indeed, so.....

Not saying they will not, mind you. What irks me is Iran's reported help.

 

[thør]

Not saying they will not, mind you. What irks me is Iran's reported help.

I'm close enough to worry a bit. I'm sure their targeting sucks along with the rest of the system, but who needs a flyer to zoom into the 'hood?

 

[cj200267]

If they do that, it will result in the utter obliteration of their entire country!

And yeah, within a few years, they might have missiles that can reach the western-most coast of Alaska.

I'm sorry, but didn't North Korea utterly obliterate themselves like a few decades ago? They keep threatening to blow someone up with the hope that someone blows them up first to put themselves out of their misery.

 

[KingOrfeo]

If I remember correctly, didn't Japan threaten total war with N.Korea if they kept their stupidity up?

So what? Japan has no army or navy or air force.

 

[Wok]

I'm sorry, but didn't North Korea utterly obliterate themselves like a few decades ago? They keep threatening to blow someone up with the hope that someone blows them up first to put themselves out of their misery.

They obliterated themselves starting in the late 1980s when help dried up. By the early 1990's, famine set in, and the economy never recovered. At the current time, they are trying reforms, but chances are, they are not going to work. Just like the reforms of 2002, 2005, and 2009. To be sure, special economic zones have been established, but they have been a disaster.

 

[KRCummings]

So what? Japan has no army or navy or air force.

They don't?

 

[KRCummings]

They obliterated themselves starting in the late 1980s when help dried up. By the early 1990's, famine set in, and the economy never recovered. At the current time, they are trying reforms, but chances are, they are not going to work. Just like the reforms of 2002, 2005, and 2009. To be sure, special economic zones have been established, but they have been a disaster.

The famine should have caused a revolt. Almost anywhere else in the world it would have. The power they have over the populous is incredible.

 

[cj200267]

The famine should have caused a revolt. Almost anywhere else in the world it would have. The power they have over the populous is incredible.

I believe that power to which you refer is called death squads. They can revolt once...after that there's a little more food to go around.

 

[blobfish]

The famine should have caused a revolt. Almost anywhere else in the world it would have. The power they have over the populous is incredible.

They have the most oppressive totalitarian government in the history of the world. There have been many countries just as violent and domineering, but in no other nation have the citizens been so thoroughly separated from the outside world in every possible way. Of course, the autocracy is a myth. The Kim of the Week is just a cult of personality used to deify the state via its chosen avatar. The military leaders have the true power, as is common in totalitarian regimes.

 

[Wok]

The famine should have caused a revolt. Almost anywhere else in the world it would have. The power they have over the populous is incredible.

The currency devaluation reforms of 2009 caused revolt. Not the revolts of say east Europe, but caused an execution of the "finance minister" and a scaling back of the overhang problem.

But yes, I agree. Collapse because of revolt has been discussed and predicted many times, but nothing of real substance came about.

 

[Mike_Yates]

North Korea has the most poorly organized and dysfunctional army in the world. Most of their troops are barely even fed.

Even Somalia could win a war against NKorea.

 

[JackLuis]

North Korea has the most poorly organized and dysfunctional army in the world. Most of their troops are barely even fed.

Even Somalia could win a war against NKorea.

Never underestimate the ferocity of an unfed solder, who is out to capture you rations, Grasshopper.