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.
We didn’t do so well with that in Vietnam...Underestimating an enemy is far worse than overestimating,IMHO...
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If everyone (or even a majority) understood your point, we would have far fewer problems governing ourselves.
I was reading all the comments to see if anybody else caught on to that. Those routes on the poster are the long way around to get here.
A point I have been pondering of late. We are incapable of governing ourselves because we cannot resist the urge to govern/control what others do.
I don’t think Obama would use nukes. I also think Kim knows this.
> A point I have been pondering of late. We are incapable of governing ourselves because we cannot resist the urge to govern/control what others do.
True but I did notice that the strike map showed they were going to hit what look like Hawaii, Chicago, and DC. What can we do to really piss them off?...: )
Upon second look I may not be right about the targets. Wishful thinking I guess...lol
OTOH, once we cut off the food supply, their entire army and population will be dead of starvation in under three weeks. As the late Sam Kinison put it, “our new secret weapon — food.”
I noticed that – no 2nd and 3rd award devices. The ribbons must be for achievement, The haven’t been in a shooting war in a very long time.
That would seem to be jabbing at the hornet’s nest.
So, they manage to get a rocket to hit the US. Then what?
His supreme chubbyness seems to be writing his war plans with not a waterman or monteblanc etc .... But a Bic. Not to mention a very large Bic ....
Prolly wanted to tell his enemies he have biiiiig BIC !
Anyone notice there is only one fat person in North Korea ?
Then Obama apologizes and sends them a bunch of money we borrowed from China.
Wolverines!
FNS just reports a News Alert that NK has put their missiles On Alert with intentions to pay back the US for past ‘accounts’.
Remember this?
http://www.infowars.com/wayne-madsen-china-fired-missile-seen-in-southern-california/
This was no "airliner."
The Chinese (North Korea's master and ally) has a very real and very deadly submarine based nuclear capability.
Good thing we are decimating our own military with the Sequester.
That is enough to cause horrific casualties to our forces and the ROK forces - casualties in both number and scale not inflicted in the US military for decades.
They don't have to win. They have to hurt us, badly, and they did it in 1950-51 with lesser weapons than they possess now. And, we have not even mentioned the Chinese....who by the way.....came to their aid during the first Korean War and will probably do so again.
That assumes they don’t do a Donner party type thing.
I really liked the covers. I thought they were better than the old soviet ones. They have a bit of French styling thrown in.
I was in South Korea during one of the annual military exercises. You could literally see the North Korean forces over the border.
It is quite different from sitting at your keyboard.
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