War with North Korea is close - a discussion

[Peter1469]

We know North Korea has nuclear weapons.

We are told they may have miniaturized them. That is necessary to put it on top of an ICBM.

We know they have ICBMs.

Their last ICBM test seemed to indicate that a warhead would not survive re-entry into the atmosphere (the only good bit of news).

We know that North Korea claims as recently as this weekend that they will not end their nuclear and missile programs.

Here is an article that I posted in the past- it is what a US war with North Korea would look like.

Here's how a preemptive strike on North Korea would go down

Business Insider spoke with Stratfor's Sim Tack, a senior analyst who is an expert on North Korea, to determine exactly how the US could carry out a crippling strike against the Hermit Kingdom.

Military action against North Korea wouldn't be pretty. Civilians in South Korea, and possibly Japan, and US forces stationed in the Pacific would be likely to die in the undertaking no matter how smoothly things went.



In short, it's not a decision any US commander in chief would make lightly.



But the US would have to choose between a full-scale destruction of North Korea's nuclear facilities and ground forces or a quicker attack on only the most important nuclear facilities. The second option would focus more on crippling North Korea's nuclear program and destroying key threats to the US and its allies.



Since a full-scale attack could lead to "mission creep that could pull the US into a longterm conflict in East Asia," according to Tack of Stratfor, the US would most likely focus on a quick, surgical strike that would wipe out the bulk of North Korea's nuclear forces.

Read the rest at the link.

[Safety]

All they would need to do is detonate one above the US that will shut down any grid and circuit board.

[hanger4]

I believe Tiny Kim is all bluster.

[Peter1469]

All they would need to do is detonate one above the US that will shut down any grid and circuit board.

Line of sight. But yes, the EMP Commission has studied this since 2000 or so. A well placed EMP strike (that may use 2-3 warheads) could destroy our grid and 90% of Americans would die inside a year.

[Peter1469]

I believe Tiny Kim is all bluster.

He may very well be.

But will a US president risk inaction on that assumption?

[hanger4]

He may very well be.

But will a US president risk inaction on that assumption?

Wouldn't that depend on the intelligence given the President ?? and would our IC purposely feed the President false information ??

[resister]

He may very well be.

But will a US president risk inaction on that assumption?

Like Obama did?

[Peter1469]

Wouldn't that depend on the intelligence given the President ?? and would our IC purposely feed the President false information ??

Yes.

And very likely yes.

[Crepitus]

We know North Korea has nuclear weapons.

We are told they may have miniaturized them. That is necessary to put it on top of an ICBM.

We know they have ICBMs.

Their last ICBM test seemed to indicate that a warhead would not survive re-entry into the atmosphere (the only good bit of news).

We know that North Korea claims as recently as this weekend that they will not end their nuclear and missile programs.

Here is an article that I posted in the past- it is what a US war with North Korea would look like.

Here's how a preemptive strike on North Korea would go down


Read the rest at the link.

The trick to a surgical strike is we'd have to get all of the launch facilities and fast or we could precipitate the very incident we fear.

Also, imho if we go that route I recommend a decapitation strike at the same time.

[IMPress Polly]

Trump has spent his time in office behaving much like Kim Jong Un: escalating the threats, the military exercises, and nuclear tests of our own (which of course our selective news coverage probably hasn't told you about), in contrast to the previous administration's policy of basically just ignoring North Korea. It's not working. Instead, escalating tensions has only accelerated the North Korea's nuclear testing and threats. It's time to return to sanity. The last time the North froze their nuclear program, it was the result of ongoing talks. With the United States. South Korea has figured that out and elected a liberal government recently that wants to restart nuclear talks. It is high time we returned to that policy as well. For all our sakes. Enough of these authoritarian leaders comparing dick sizes at the expense of everyone else.