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2010-07-30 China-Japan-Koreas

Report Casts Doubt on N.Korea's Ability to Deploy Nukes

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Posted by Steve White 2010-07-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 U.S. Intelligence agencies also believed they had a rat in the Iranian nuclear program.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-30 00:30|| 2010-07-30 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 but U.S. intelligence agencies believe the North has no missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

Well, they are working on one. That'll change real quick one of these days. How about next year some time? Or maybe Iran will hand them something since they seem to be working together on this. Sorta like the moles in "Mole Basher".

Posted by gorb 2010-07-30 02:03|| 2010-07-30 02:03|| Front Page Top

#3 but U.S. intelligence agencies believe the North has no missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

The IC "didn't believe" or had never calculated that radical muslims would use US Airliners as giant suicide bombs either. Hand me the next report please, and take this one to the shredder if you will.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-07-30 06:13|| 2010-07-30 06:13|| Front Page Top

#4 With Seoul in heavy artillery range, they've never needed nukes to hold the south hostage. And a sub suicide-run into a South Korean port with a big, bulky POS atomic bomb will work as well as a SCUD.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-07-30 09:02|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-07-30 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 I call shenanigans! Didn't Pakistan get NK missile designs for their nukes? IIRC the bombs R us design is supposed to be one metric ton. Now didn't they have a missile test that staged over Japan? Did the upper stage weigh less than a ton? Get your broom!

Posted by Guillibaldo Unusing2147 2010-07-30 09:45|| 2010-07-30 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Bullshit.
The Chinese weapon design that Pakistan provided North Korea with was a 500kg missile deliverable warhead.

Posted by john frum 2010-07-30 13:39|| 2010-07-30 13:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Hasn't NK tested missile systems? I know their big missiles haven't done well in testing, but don't they have plenty of medium and smaller rockets? It's not like they have to be dead on with a Nuke. A mile or 2 off is still fine. It's all good in horse shoes, hand grendaes, and nuclear weapons.

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-07-30 14:18|| 2010-07-30 14:18|| Front Page Top

#8 The problem with small missiles is small payload. It's not easy to make small nukes. That's the reason the Soviet rockets were so big. Their nukes weighed a LOT.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-07-30 18:55|| 2010-07-30 18:55|| Front Page Top

#9 "The North has no Missles capable of carrying NUclear Warheads" > Among other, THATS WHAT SUICIDE BOMBERS = MILITANTS + "BLACK/COVERT GROUPS" are for.

As per the WORLD SOCIALIST MOVEMENT(S), the NORCOMS/NKOMS > have histically publicly supported LOCAL, STATE, CULTURAL + ETHNIC NATIONALISM + UNITY, + got into Political Power promsing same.

However, the NORCOMS ideo credibility is specifically challenged by,

To wit,

* CHINA sees the DPRK as a VASSAL STATE = "UN-ANNEXED CHIN TERRITORY", + will NOT tolerate a STRONG NUCLEAR NORTH KOREA, nor ditto SOUTH KOREA. The YELLOW SEA is deemed by Chin as one its MOST RISQUE' STRATEGIC AVENUES FOR INVASION BY FOREIGN INTERESTS [Armies].
* COMMIE NORTH KOREA = DEMOCR SOUTH KOREA > NEITHER CAMP, GOVT OR MAINSTREAM, WANT TO LOSE ANY MORE OF THEIR ANCESTRAL HOMELAND THAN THEY ALREADY HAVE.
* DPRK suffers from seemingly NEVER-ENDING, WORSENING FOOD [famine] + NATIONAL ECON PROBS.
* By most Pert accounts, Pyongyang's new FTA wid Beijing is perceived as only INTENSIFYING/
EXPANDING CHIN INFLUENCE + CONTROL IN LT OER NORTH KOREA, NOT REDUC IT.
* SEOUL per se may be the ROK's ANCIENT + CULTURAL CAPITAL, but it cannot be held hostage by the DPRK as the ROK + US have been quietly expanding their alternative Mil HQS down south.
IOW, WORSE CASE > SOUTH KOREA WILL GIVE UP SEOUL, IFF NEED BE, IN ANY SECOND OR NEW KOREAN WAR BECUZ ITS ONLY A CITY [Flexibility/Fluidity of Command]. Both the ROK + USFK-USDOD recognize that, despite any Diplomatic, Activist rhetoric to the contrary, the DPRK will unilaterally destroy Seoul regardless of its ancient links iff it means militarily destroying the bulk of ROK andor USFK Milfors in one shot. SO WILL CHINA + PLA DESTROY SEOUL FOR SAME. CHINA WILL DESTROY SEOUL + TWO KOREAS TO SAVE CHINA.

Again, IRONY > IMO it may be in THE US + ROK's interests for the NOKORS to SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH dev NUCLEAR WEAPONS. NUKE-HAPPY ISLAMIST IRAN MAY NOT BE STARVING, BUT NUKE-HAPPY NORTH KOREA DOESN'T HAVE OR CONTROL ANY VIOLENT, GLOBAL-SCOPED INTERNATIONAL TERROR = JIHADIST GROUPS.

AFAIK KIMMIE + REGIME'S ULTIMATE MOTIVES DOESN'T INCLUDE FORCIBLY IMPOSING A KOREAN GLOBAL/UNIVERSAL EMPIRE OR GLOBAL STATE.

OOOOOOPPPPPSIES .....

Or is He????

[Theme from DRAGNET here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-07-30 20:50|| 2010-07-30 20:50|| Front Page Top

#10 WMF > CHINA WILL SUPPORT NORTH KOREA AGZ NORTH KOREAN MUCLEAR WEAPONS: BEIJING NOT AGZ NORTH KOREA HAVING NUCLEAR BOMBS IFF TO "DE-NUCLEARIZE" THE ENTIRE KOREAN PENINSULA + ELIMINATE US NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN SOUTH KOREA + JAPAN + GUAM BASE, BUT NOT IFF TO BE USED BY NORTH KOREA AGZ CHINA. FINAL OUTCOME OF NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT COULD CHANGE THE ENTIRE REGIONAL, GLOBAL BALANCE OF POWER.

and

* WMF > [think-tank]SOUTH KOREAN "INSTITUTE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS" PLA EXPERT: US IS NO LONGER ABLE TO MILITARILY OR ECON DOMINATE THE KOREAN PENINSULA, INCLUDING DURING ANY NEW INTER-KOREAN WAR [DPRK versus ROK].

and

* WMF > INTERNATIONAL LAW EXPERT: CHINA MAY BE ABLE TO CLAIM THE US-ROK CARRIER, NAVAL DRILLS IN THE YELLOW SEA IS ILLEGAL UNDER INTERNATIONAL "LAW OF THE SEA" PROVISIONS FOR PROTECTION AGZ DISRUPTION OF PEACEFUL MARITIME TRADE. Only MERCHANT SHIPS + COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT, NOT Military or Mil-related, are allowed in "ECONOMIC EXCLUSION ZONES" OR "FREE TRADE ZONES" AS OFFICIALLY DECLARED OR DELINEATED BY SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES which China has done.

and

WAFF > RUSSIAN INVESIGATORS HAVE FOUND NORTH KOREA DID NOT SINK THE SOUTH'S SHIP {Cheonan] | [YouTube] KOREAN CONTROVERSY: SOUTH'S SHIP SUNK BY MINE.

VERSUS

* WMF > "DAILY NORTH KOREA" MEDIA: PYONGYANG ORDERS NORTH KOREAN ARMY TO PREPARE + BE READY TO WAGE A [Sacred] WAR OF NATIONAL RE-UNIFICATION AT ANY MOMENT OR OPPORTUNITY, + DEFEND NORTH KOREA AGZ US-LED/CONTROLLED PROXY ISLAMIST, MILITANT THREATS TO KOREA. US-ORDERED PROXY "JIHAD" AGZ NORTH KOREA IS IMMINENT/JUST AROUND THE CORNER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-07-31 00:12|| 2010-07-31 00:12|| Front Page Top

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