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China-Japan-Koreas
Nuclear NKorea Is No Paper Tiger
2016-03-05
[NEWSMAX] Twenty-four hours after the U.S. persuaded the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
to impose what is advertised by the B.O. regime as the toughest sanctions yet on North Korea, for its illegal nuclear and missile tests of Jan. 6 and Feb. 7, on March 3, dictator Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
responded by ordering his armed forces to be ready to use nuclear weapons "at any time" and to be prepared to make a "preemptive attack."

China's late dictator Mao Tse-tung once derided the United States as a "paper tiger," but was reminded by Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev "that paper tiger has nuclear teeth."

Western media that regularly dismisses as mere bluster Kim Jong-un's frequent threats to make nuclear missile strikes against the United States should remember -- and should report -- that the North Korean dictator is capable of delivering on his threats.

North Korea has six mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear warheads, capable of reaching the western United States, perhaps as far as reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
, according to "Military and Security Developments Involving the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea," a recent Defense Department report.

North Korea also has 50 medium-range Nodong missiles, at least some of them nuclear armed, that can reach South Korea, Japan, U.S. military bases located there, and the U.S. mainland if launched from a freighter.

Senior national security experts from the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations have warned repeatedly in articles and congressional testimony that North Korea's KSM-3 and KSM-4 satellites orbit over the United States at the optimum trajectory and altitude to evade U.S. early warning radars and national missile defenses and make a surprise electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the contiguous 48 United States.
Posted by:Fred

#9  HPMs and EMP link
Posted by: Bobby   2016-03-05 12:27  

#8  I wouldn't expect even a second of reality in this administration, gorb.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-03-05 10:33  

#7  Oh, I think the batteries in 'the football' have probably expired, Ship. The world realizes MAD is dead because we are doing it to ourselves.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-03-05 10:14  

#6  EMP again? Look, an EMP attacked is stupid tactics, it is localized (there's math involved), but still a strategic attack inviting a strategic response which likely would old fashioned thermo nuclear warheads targeted against silos and cities. We got no cell phones or radio, but you got no country and 1200 people in a mineshaft.

Counterforce is an opponents better choice, except for the Ohio factor of course.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-03-05 08:33  

#5  North Korea's KSM-3 and KSM-4 satellites orbit over the United States at the optimum trajectory and altitude to evade U.S. early warning radars and national missile defenses and make a surprise electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the contiguous 48 United States.

There is some speculation that the initial 'tumbling' of KSM-4 was actually a staged kinetic dispersal action for a plume of EMP microsats (HPM pills). An interesting addition to this 'obviously paranoid rant' is the suggestion that the EMP has been team designed to target specific Made-in-China communication components.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-03-05 02:33  

#4  If the Norks can do it then the Chinese and Russians can do it too.
Posted by: jvalentour   2016-03-05 01:40  

#3  The EMP threat has been out there for some time.

To the degree our military command and performance assets have been hardened against them, we are safe.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562   2016-03-05 00:45  

#2  The Bammer has seemingly been refraining from making statements on this, + the escalating SCS dispute wid China.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2016-03-05 00:28  

#1  Kinda makes me wonder if the 0bean administration is starting to realize the error of its ways.
Posted by: gorb   2016-03-05 00:13  

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