N Korea threatens to ‘wipe out’ US forces

highwayman

New Member
Lets see, one missile is going to wipe out our armed forced spread out through the world...I don't know who has been smoking the most dope, Kerry or this guy...



http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Di...nth=June2006&file=World_News2006061944850.xml
Seoul • North Korea yesterday threatened to “mercilessly wipe out” US forces in case of war during a national meeting to mark leader Kim Jong-Il’s 42 years’ work at the ruling party.

The threat, in a ruling party report carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), came as North Korea was reportedly preparing to test-fire a long-range missile despite strong protests from the United States and its allies.

Choe Thae Bok, a ranking Workers’ Party official, said Washington was “hell-bent on provocations of war of aggression” in the report to mark the 42nd anniversary of Kim’s start at the party, KCNA said.
 

MrBishop

Well-Known Member
Nope...but one Nuke-tipped missile in Iraq would do a number on the 120k+ troops there and their equipment.
 

Gonz

molṑn labé
Staff member
Well then, at such a great cost, North Korea would be a Province of Taxachusetts
 

2minkey

bootlicker
yeah how many troops do we have there though? i can imagine those north ko-rean fuckers being belligerent enough to plop a nuke on their own penisula.
 

Gonz

molṑn labé
Staff member
I think it was 25-35k, last time I noticed.

Question is...just how involved is China in this whole thing? Methinks bunches & bunches.

Thank You Madame Halfbright & ex-Presidents Carter & Clinton (there chic, a two-fer)
 

Altron

Well-Known Member
North Korea - 46,528 sq mi

US - 3,718,711 sq mi

So we've got almost a thousand times the land mass...

North Korea - 7 nuclear warheads

US - 10,000 nuclear warheads

Not really a competition in the weapons department either...
 

Professur

Well-Known Member
Altron said:
North Korea - 46,528 sq mi

US - 3,718,711 sq mi

So we've got almost a thousand times the land mass...

North Korea - 7 nuclear warheads

US - 10,000 nuclear warheads

Not really a competition in the weapons department either...

The question is .... if you were to use those 7 warheads effectively (aka 7 major US cities, how many people would you kill and how many trillions of dollars in damages to property, and the economy could you do .... versus firing off (how many could you safely fire off anyhow? Gotta keep some for backup against the chinese, russians, canadians, etc) XX from the US and blowing up half a million acres of jungle.
 

HomeLAN

New Member
Yeah, the real concern surrounds the possibility of landing, say 1 each in San Fran, LA, Seattle, San Diego, with the extra 3 spread around the left coast.

Why do you think there's such consternation over the testing of the Taepodong-2 missile? If they figure out how to attach a warhead effectovely, that scenario becomes plausible.

Certainly you don't think they'll hesitate to nail a population center?
 

highwayman

New Member
HomeLan said:
Yeah, the real concern surrounds the possibility of landing, say 1 each in San Fran, LA, Seattle, San Diego, with the extra 3 spread around the left coast.

And the prevailing winds would do the rest along with taking out the major west coast bases. If you thought about it drop one at Pearl Harbor and we would be almost crippled in the pacific..
 

MrBishop

Well-Known Member
HomeLAN said:
Certainly you don't think they'll hesitate to nail a population center?

no more than anyone else with nukes. :shrug:

Gulf of Mexico if they can hit it would be a serious hit towards oil production etc... Silicon valley for tech/comp advances.

Hell, a hit near the San andreas faultline or others in that area would do some pretty bad damage by itself.
 

Professur

Well-Known Member
You've been watching one too many bad sci-fi flicks. A nuke can't set off an earthquake, and oil rigs aren't placed close enough for even the biggest nuke in the russian arsenal to take out more than one rig. And a hit over water leaves very little in the way of fallout, and no rad-effected zone.
 

MrBishop

Well-Known Member
Professur said:
You've been watching one too many bad sci-fi flicks. A nuke can't set off an earthquake, and oil rigs aren't placed close enough for even the biggest nuke in the russian arsenal to take out more than one rig. And a hit over water leaves very little in the way of fallout, and no rad-effected zone.

Never mind the rigs...try the processing plants.
 

Altron

Well-Known Member
But hopefully they realize that a stunt like that turns the whole Orient into a crater, being that we have more than enough nukes to hit every city with a four digit population in all of Asia with a nuke.
 

HomeLAN

New Member
MrBishop said:
no more than anyone else with nukes. :shrug:

Yeah, keep telling yourself that. Kim Jung Il has enough crazy running through him that I don't think you can say that with any reasonable expectation of being correct.
 

Winky

Well-Known Member
Ok so this missile is liquid fueled
it can't be left charged up sitting on the pad forever
have they de-fueled it?

Or are the 99 luft balloons about to go up?


What’s the frequency Kenneth?
 

Professur

Well-Known Member
HomeLAN said:
Yeah, keep telling yourself that. Kim Jung Il has enough crazy running through him that I don't think you can say that with any reasonable expectation of being correct.

Yeah, he was crazy enough to try and take on Team America with nothing but the Film Actor's Guild.
 

HomeLAN

New Member
This morning, they were saying they didn't knwo if it was fueled. Now they say "they may have finished" fueling it. Someone surely sounds confused.

There were conflicting reports about whether a missile launch was imminent.

Japan's public broadcaster NHK said Tuesday that satellite images showed fueling vehicles still positioned around the suspected launch site in the country's northeast, but workers spotted near the head of the missile Monday weren't visible Tuesday.

The launch site appears to be guarded by about 1,000 troops, the report added.

U.S. officials in Washington said Monday the missile was apparently fully assembled and fueled, but Japan's Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Jinen Nagase said Tuesday he could not confirm that fueling had been completed.

South Korea's spy agency also believes North Korea hasn't yet completed fueling the rocket because the 40 fuel tanks seen around a launch site weren't enough to fuel a projectile estimated to be 65 tons, Yonhap news agency reported, quoting lawmakers who attended an intelligence briefing.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200221,00.html
 
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