Posted on 09/04/2017 12:15:53 PM PDT by BBell
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump agreed on Monday to scrap a warhead weight limit on South Korea’s missiles in the wake of North Korea’s sixth nuclear test, South Korea’s presidential office said.
In a separate phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin also on Monday, Moon said the U.N. Security Council should seek ways to sever North Korea’s foreign currency income, including from its workers employed abroad and oil shipments.
Under the existing missile pact between the United States and South Korea, Seoul’s warheads currently face a cap of 500 kg (1100 lb).
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I say the upper limit should be one or two megatons.
What we really need to do is to quietly restart the micro-nuke project.
hmm, ... sounds like, soon they could be using the Daughter of the MOABs.
Making those missiles into bunker busters!
Oops, could that measure make the peninsula “tip over?”
So we have arms control treaties between us and our allies, particularly when one of them (South Korea) is still in a STATE OF WAR?
What the hell is wrong with us?
I find it humliating there ever WAS an “upper limit”.
WHOSE feet are further in the fire, here, eh..?
We’d go NUTSO if the SK’s had to “authorize” us for more powerful stuff to, say, defend against MeHico.
We’d be super pissed.
agree 10,000%
We have all manner of nano-tech that should be nuclear applicable.
There should even be tiny nuclear mortar rounds, grenades....
In fact it seems to me inevitable that there will one day be such things.
Back in the 80’s I was talking to a guy who was former Army Airborne. He told me that Special Forces had nuke land mines. One of their missions was to sneak into N. Korea, set the land mines to go off via a timer and get the heck out of there. The land mines were to be placed in areas where the resulting explosions could divert the flow of rivers and streams so that they would flood the NORK’s tunnel complexes. I don’t know whether this was pure bunk or not but anything is plausible.
I’d even like to see tiny little nuclear firecrackers, for the Fourth of July.
Was war ever declared?
"American President Donald J. trump starts nuclear war!"
South Korea has had 60+ years to take care of their problem with their northern cousins.
We need to walk out of there and let South Korea handle their own affairs.
If this was available in 1950, where is the tech NOW..?
Yield of 10-20 tons of TNT, or 0.01-0.02 kilotons 1,500 of them and you'd have Hiroshima, or thereabouts
Where is the list of countries doing business with North Korea?
The engineers had back pack or suit case type nukes to forestall a Russian Tank invasion in the gap in Europe in the early 60s so this is not far fetched.
As far as I know the war never ended, just a cease fire in 1954. No peace treaty or formal end to hostilities...the main reason that border is so damn tense, and scary.
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