Posted on 03/28/2013 11:05:07 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
Edited on 03/28/2013 11:22:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
"In a photo published in the Korea Worker’s Party (KWP) paper the Rodong, plans for a strike on the U.S. mainland are clearly –and therefore probably deliberately– visible. The newspaper is widely distributed in cities, and often displayed in public places for easy viewing..."
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UPDATE 1449KST: South Korean intelligence agencies have spotted increased activity on North Korean mid-t0-long range missile platforms, an unnamed official told Yonhap in Seoul: “We are closely watching for the possibility of a missile launch,” the anonymous government source said.
SEOUL – Kim Jong Un signed off on a plan to ready his forces to target the U.S. mainland and American bases in East Asia following yesterday’s U.S.-led B2 strategic bomber runs, the KCNA reported after the North Korean military conveyed an “emergency meeting” in the early hours of this morning.
In a photo published in the Korea Worker’s Party (KWP) paper the Rodong, plans for a strike on the U.S. mainland are clearly –and therefore probably deliberately– visible. The newspaper is widely distributed in cities, and often displayed in public places for easy viewing.
“He finally signed the plan on technical preparations of strategic rockets, ordering them to be on standby to fire so that they may strike any time the U.S. mainland, its military bases in the operational theaters in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam, and those in south Korea,” a KCNA report in English said.
In the below photos, Kim Jong Un can be seen in what appears to be a military command room, signing the ready order.
In the version enlarged by NK NEWS (below), the text reads “U.S. Mainland Strike Plan” [미본토타격계획], and a larger map towards the back of the command centre appears to show the Western coast of the United States.
A composite overlay appears to show Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Hawaii and possibly Austin as being primary targets in a North Korean attack plan:
In a second picture Korean People’s Air Force (KPAF) squadron numbers are visible, as is what appears to be a flight plans on the left side of the large map on the wall. A 21.5 inch aluminium unibody iMac is on Kim Jong Un’s desk, confirming long-held rumors of the Kim family’s passion for Apple Macs.
Given that the photo will have primarily been intended for a domestic audience, it will most likely have already served its purpose of demonstrating North Korean military capabilities internally. Most analysts agree North Korea would not be able to hit any U.S. mainland targets.
A composite of the two photos gives a better idea of the scene, although the different focal lengths distort the image slightly:
The development appears to be a tit-for-tat response to a U.S. stealth bomber training run Thursday that saw two B-2’s fly from Misourri to drop ordinance on an island in the southern half of the Korean peninsula. U.S. officials said the flights were not designed to raise tensions, but reduce them by bolstering deterrence in face of North Korea’s recent vitriolic provocations.
However, North Korea sees ongoing U.S. military drills as part of a plot to conduce a full-scale nuclear invasion of their country. This week, North Korea put its military on the highest level of alert possible and cut a second military hotline. A KCNA report published earlier today added to tensions by saying that the North Korean military was preparing to “blow up the strongholds of aggression…through precision strikes no matter where they are.”
Observers worry that, with tensions running high and two new leaders in Pyongyang and Seoul, there is significant potential for escalation in the event of military confrontation. Both Kim Jong Un and Park Geun-hye are under domestic pressure to show strong and decisive leadership in the face of each other’s threats, and a lack of direct communication between the two sides is worrying for some.
Love all those medals for a country that has not been at war in 60 years. Must be for the number of peasants he has murdered.
Surprisingly enough, apparently not! The trajectories shown are only ballistic trajectories on a planar surface projection of a sphere, such as the map shown. If launched in the directions shown, the missiles would follow great circle routes and end up south of the US.
Nobody with a high school science education was available for this propaganda project, I guess. This is not a credible threat, but "OK, THIS TIME I'M R E A L L Y GONNA DO IT! YOU'LL BE SO SORRY!!!"
and forget Berserkley and San Fransicko. =)
>>Austin, as in Texas??Why would they want bomb an ally??
Same for Washington DC and Los Angeles. I think that’s just a map that shows the distances to Dear Leader’s Faceboook friends.
It is the Top Secret attack plan.
That mental and physical midget running NK reminds me of the Knight in the Monty Python movie who keeps trying to fight even after his limbs are cut off.
That being said, I can think of no better time for some mental midget to attack the USA. With our fearless READER in charge, the chances of a successful attack with toothless retribution are much higher. NK would just be doing what the communist in chief, B.O-plenty, is trying to do to us but with weapons rather than the economy.
Obama’s cynical enough to allow Austin to be attacked, just to show people that opposing tax-payer spending is unwise.
“Hey, we told you the sequester would hurt. We only had intercepters enough for the takers, baby. Gotta head to the I-95 rest stop out of NJ, then I’m off to meet my beard, er, wife in Sun Valley.”
“Mahalo.”
Ummm...your troops are slightly larger than those vehicles..
He is just ordering lunch,
“One flum corum A, two flum corum B.”
Didn’t I see or hear something recently about the government wanting to set up an interceptor missile system or something like that on the U.S. east coast? Seems like it came out before all this talk of NK planning to bomb us.
Listening to Rush, he said maybe Austin is a target because of its large Samsung factory!
“Hey, don’t I get some medals, too?”
As long as it is LA, Berkeley, and San Francisco, I have no problem with it. I have been hoping they would fall into the ocean one day.......this merely accelerates that.
Amen brother!!
Only a fool would believe they currently have the capability.
"We have NOTHING to fear from Obama
because we BOTH support weaponized Iran."
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