North Korea: When Internet Trolls Get Nukes

[GDS_Starfury]

guess what we parked nearby:



WATERS TO THE WEST OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA (March 21, 2013) U.S. and Republic of Korea Navy ships sail in formation during exercise Foal Eagle 2013. Ships from Destroyer Squadron 15, forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan, are underway to conduct exercise Foal Eagle 2013 with allied nation Republic of Korea in support of regional security and stability of the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Declan Barnes/Released)


I wonder how many ABMs are in those 2 Burkes VLS cells.  ;D

[LongBlade]

Sweet. Thanks for the update, Star.

[mirth]

Two B-2s just did a training mission over South Korea and we very publicly announced it. This is in addition to B-52 flights earlier in the month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/world/asia/us-begins-stealth-bombing-runs-over-south-korea.html?hp

[LongBlade]

I saw that. What a happy coincidence.

[Longdan]

B52's are getting kinda old.  Is Kate Peirson still hot or is she grandma'd out?

[Martok]

Two B-2s just did a training mission over South Korea and we very publicly announced it. This is in addition to B-52 flights earlier in the month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/world/asia/us-begins-stealth-bombing-runs-over-south-korea.html?hp

What fortuitous timing!  ;) 

B52's are getting kinda old.  Is Kate Peirson still hot or is she grandma'd out?

Personally, I have to disallow her.  Sorry, but she's my father's age; my mind refuses to go there. 

[Longdan]

That's the benefit of being my age the pool of eligible females is larger even if I mark my age as the top end.

[Staggerwing]

B52's are getting kinda old.  Is Kate Peirson still hot or is she grandma'd out?

Personally, I have to disallow her.  Sorry, but she's my father's age; my mind refuses to go there.

Apparently she also bats for the Home Team. FWIW.

[OJsDad]

I know there is a lot of artillery that the Norks have pointed at Souel.  How fast could the ROK and US take out most of it out.

[Staggerwing]

Probably not fast enough to keep Seoul from getting really messed up in the first hour or so.

[Longdan]

Don't worry.  I am sure they have a plan.

[jejo68]

Guys we have this everytime then norks want something. They arent stupid, so nothings going to happen

[Longdan]

They aren't stupid.  They are in a place beyond stupid.  That is why I worry.
If the US could deal with stupid the government would be under control instead of running
around loose with Mom's credit card.

[JasonPratt]

Guys we have this everytime then norks want something. They arent stupid, so nothings going to happen

Noooooo, I'm pretty sure the ability to throw nukes a few hundred miles (or any miles at all) is a new level of dakka for the Norks.

Small nukes are relatively defensive, too. All they have to do is build five or six, detonate one somewhere nearby they don't give a hoot about (like Guam), and then say, "Yo, we get what we want now or we'll start setting off the other nukes we've hidden away. The first plane or the first shell that crosses our border, boom, we detonate. We don't have to throw it with a missile, we smuggled it into place."

They don't even have to be telling the truth: they could have kept all the nukes at home to use against any invading tank corps or against a fleet on station. Send out one of their diesel subs, crump the hulls, just like with Shot Baker. Sure they'd be poisoning the land they want to claim for themselves, but to crazy minds self-defense is paramount.

[jejo68]

yeah because if they blow up a nuke in guam they are going to live more then 15 min after. No they arent stupid and they dont have a death wish