North Korea Aiming Nuclear Test Towards US

[Nine]

I couldn't see a thread about this so I figured I may as well make one

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/...64598.html

The secretive North Korean regime has said it is planning a nuclear test and more long-range rocket launches, aimed at what it calls its "sworn enemy", the United States.

[Waratah]

Not very secretive if they keep telling everyone what they are doing.

[Something completely different]

Dont they trumpet stuff like this out every weekend?

[Nine]

Dont they trumpet stuff like this out every weekend?

Calling the US their arch enemy and telling everyone they intend to fire nuclear weapons at them is new.

[Something completely different]

Pffff.


Seems like there simply was another "failed rocketstart" in Kim`s bedroom last night.

[Nine]

Kim Jong-un is not amused.

[Jackalope]

Yeah, I can see this ending well.

[Dee Dee Ramone]

Kim Jong-un is not amused.

Food is definetly not scarce among the elite in North-Korea.

[Nine]

Somebody needs to get him to do the truffle shuffle on youtube.

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Yeah, I can see this ending well.

I was reading around and the US still has over 5000 nuclear weapons. Meanwhile North Korea is estimated to have 20-30 by 2016..

Suicide mission seems to be an understatement.

[Creed of Heresy]

North Korea...the perfect example of how religion is the worst excuse to be used for one to rule over many.

The sad thing is, is that the Missile Defense Shield using SM3s alone can neutralize the most advanced ICBMs in the world with an 81% success rate. It's worth noting that "most advanced ICBM" is not a phrase we will ever use to describe N. Korea's ICBM arsenal, either now or in the distant future and that, as Insanity pointed out, they would, in four years, have at most 30 such ICBMs whereas we currently have 113 interceptors at our disposal with the vast majority parked between North Korea and Japan [and by extension between North Korea and the US].

If North Korea truly wants to be obliterated, they may fire when ready. It will be the last act as a nation they will ever commit. We wouldn't even need to retaliate with nuclear exchanges. A single carrier group carries enough firepower to level a third-world nation to the ground...and last I checked, North Korea's a third world nation. And that is IF we fired indiscriminately. The only thing stopping anyone from burning North Korea to the ground is China because, for some weird-ass reason, China just loves North Korea even though North Korea is essentially causing them the most headaches of any other nation on the planet.