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Just how bad was the North Korea missile launch last night?
Hot Air.com ^ | February 7, 2016 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 02/07/2016 4:23:32 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: MRadtke

Yes, I agree with that.

China has disturbances with it’s neighbors too though.

I still say China and Russia are very stupid to aid people who are fully capable of hating them as much as they do us.


21 posted on 02/07/2016 5:42:58 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: butterdezillion

“Wipe out Pyongyang and Tehran simultaneously?”

Wouldn’t it be awesome if the NORKS launched a nuke, the guidance system was hacked and it mysteriously blew up Tehran?


22 posted on 02/07/2016 5:43:43 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (It's the apocalypse, lets have some fun!)
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To: Kaslin
Only one thing though: for the North Korean long-range missile to be actually viable, they need to put it in an underground launch silo or on a mobile launcher. The rocket they've shown can only be launched on a "soft" launch pad, requiring hours of time just to fuel up the rocket.

Their smaller rockets such as the Rodong-1 are a much more serious threat, since they are mobile-launched and now have the range to hit most of Japan with a range up to 1,500 kilometers (930 miles). As such, the North Koreans would use the Rodong-1 to specifically target US military bases in Japan with a 20-25 KT nuclear warhead, primarily Sasebo Naval Base, Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Base, Atsugi Air Base (US Navy), Yokota Air Base (USAF), Yokosuka Naval Base and Misawa Air Base (USAF).

23 posted on 02/07/2016 5:43:59 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Jim from C-Town

10,000,000 residents of Seoul would object to the probable subsequent shelling by 10,000 artillery pieces.


24 posted on 02/07/2016 5:51:19 PM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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To: DoughtyOne

You are right - Chine and NK are joined at the hip and they have been since WWII. The were the major force in Korea when the war was going on in the early 50’s.


25 posted on 02/07/2016 5:56:45 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: elpadre

Yep, and one more time, what did all that trade buy us?

Now more of the same under TPP.


26 posted on 02/07/2016 5:59:01 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: Kaslin
Have you seen China's launch center? They copied NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Here's a picture: China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center
27 posted on 02/07/2016 6:04:42 PM PST by r_barton (We the People of the United States...)
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To: Mac n Jac

What do you bring to the table?


28 posted on 02/07/2016 6:09:14 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: DoughtyOne

An EMP would cause more devastation.


29 posted on 02/07/2016 6:10:52 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Cobra64

Yes, that’s true.


30 posted on 02/07/2016 6:12:43 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: butterdezillion

I would. Bush should have taken out Mecca right after 911. The planet would be very polite today.


31 posted on 02/07/2016 6:13:09 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: ctdonath2

Maybe.

Maybe the survivors in North Korea would let out a collective sigh of relief.


32 posted on 02/07/2016 6:13:11 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: marktwain; All

Newt mentioned EMP repeatedly last go-round. He’s briefed the military and was consulted by the author of “One Second After.” People should read the book. An EMP strike is so easy, it is inevitable.


33 posted on 02/07/2016 6:18:21 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Cobra64

Take out Mecca?

Bush wouldn’t even close our border.

He shut down *our* planes but flew hundreds of Saudis out of the country.


34 posted on 02/07/2016 6:18:39 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Kaslin
Here is the launch path that North Korea used. Southernly launch to avoid overflying Japan.


35 posted on 02/07/2016 6:19:10 PM PST by r_barton (We the People of the United States...)
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To: butterdezillion

They could just put an EMP on a Scud and launch from a freighter. This, literally, is not rocket science.


36 posted on 02/07/2016 6:20:32 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: ladyjane

I know. It’s pathetic. We need Curtis LeMay thinking in a CIC. Look him up + Tokyo.


37 posted on 02/07/2016 6:23:54 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Cobra64

But would they be able to get it past our radar and anti-missile defense system? My understanding is that we’ve got pretty good defense except from the southern hemisphere, and having a satellite that could drop a bomb from the southern hemisphere is our area of vulnerability. Am I understanding that correctly?

Obama has been depleting our military when we’re facing worse and worse threats all the time, and I don’t understand how he can do all this stuff to make us vulnerable without at least SOMEBODY calling it the treason that it is.


38 posted on 02/07/2016 6:39:37 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: Cobra64

Bomber Harris works for me as well.


39 posted on 02/07/2016 6:40:45 PM PST by donozark (Bernie Sanders:I was commie when commie wasn't koo-ol!)
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To: butterdezillion

No arguments. A scud launched from a freighter 3 miles off our coast would get through. We are naive.


40 posted on 02/07/2016 6:52:49 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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