Posted on 08/10/2017 3:52:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
North Korea has been steadily assembling all the technologies it needs to put a nuclear warhead on a submarine-launched missile.
If the Pyongyang regime deploys an effective undersea nuke—and all signs point toward that eventuality—it might be able to sail a sub behind U.S. defenses on the Korean Peninsula and launch a surprise strike on South Korean cities.
The new undersea threat comes at a time of escalating hostility between the United States and North Korea. The communist country recently produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead small enough to fit inside its missiles, according to The Washington Post. Warhead-miniaturization is “a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power,” the Post reported.
In response to the report, President Donald Trump vowed to to inflict “fire and fury” on North Korea. A North Korean army commander called Trump’s threat “a load of nonsense.”
On Aug. 8, Pyongyang announced it was preparing a plan for a preemptive strike on the U.S. military base on the Pacific island of Guam. Responding to that threat, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis warned North Korea to “cease any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people.”
As the rhetoric on both sides grows more heated, North Korea is marching along the path toward a functional, long-range nuclear arsenal. Pyongyang possesses a increasing number of rockets that are presumably compatible with the new, smaller warheads it reportedly has developed. On July 4 and again on July 28, North Korea tested a ground-launched intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting the continental United States from the Korean Peninsula. Pyongyang also fields hundreds of shorter-range rockets.....
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There is no way a diesel powered sub could sneak past any US ship. Diesel engines are very loud and can be heard from miles away. The second one is detected in SK waters it would be depth charged into oblivion.
“They are calculating “
That is the problem. Their calculation is that Trump will roll over like Clinton, Bush and Barry. Unfortunately the Nork leadership is watching CNN and assume Trump is hated in America, powerless and on his way out. The president is left with no choice here. He must act. I only hope the strike will be swift and massive enough to eliminate any retaliatory force.
My main concern is our reliance on an Obamafied intelligence network. Will the Nork satellites be taken out in the first wave?
I’m not buying it either. You don’t telegraph your moves. What if an asteroid blew up over California or Alaska? Maybe a ship blow up in a major port.
North Korea just might get nuked.
Funny you should ask. Our unmanned real-high sat watcher landed after 2yrs observation of the sats in the hood. We have another trim-out package on that cruiser that seats 8 guys for actual missions.
Well just sink all their subs then. So there.
Say what? I didn’t see no sub.
Diesel subs on batteries are the quietest subs of all.
They run on batteries underwater, not diesel engines.
If I thought that we would not lose any Americans, I would be yelling, “Nuke’em”, How do we avoid loss of American lives?
NK is not going to launch anything at anyone.
It’s as they say, a storm in a teacup.
Look out below!
This is exactly how the US was attacked with an EMP in the book One Second After.
They have 70 midget subs, and 20 Romeo class subs. (Romeo's were developed in the 1950s and put into service in the 1960s.)
Ugh that book. Great book. Terrifying book. Bought it years ago after it was recommended on fr, probably by you. :)
They are excellent poker players. They are suggesting that just maybe they have an ace as a hole card. Whether they do or not is not as important as whether they can sell the other player that it’s plausible that they do.
One Second After is that silly book where all cars are immobilized by EMP...except the ones owned by roving mobs of cannibals.
Yes, cannibals.
The key is in the last paragraph...THAAD all protect against attack from the north, leaving other directions undefended.
Is that true? Or misdirection?
Sneak attack? Hardly.and we would fatten the whole worthless country.
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