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| South Korea in talks with US to buy nuclear-powered submarines |
| 2017-11-08 |
| [DAWN] South Korea is negotiating with the United States to buy nuclear-powered submarines to guard against threats from Pyongyang, local reports said on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said Seoul would buy "billions of dollars" of US weapons. Nuclear-powered submarines can stay submerged for months, giving them a far greater range than their diesel-powered counterparts, and are also crucial to any seaborne nuclear deterrent. Such a purchase would redraw the balance of power in northeast Asia and could trigger a regional arms race. Japan, another US ally, does not have nuclear-powered submarines and is barred from having a military under its post-World War II pacifist constitution. And while China's increasingly powerful navy does include them in its fleet, Beijing would undoubtedly be infuriated by any such acquisition by Seoul. After a summit in South Korea with his counterpart Moon Jae-In, Trump on Tuesday said Seoul would be buying a large amount of US weapons "whether it's planes, whether it's missiles, no matter what it is". |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Just tell those nice fellas in Beijing that none of it has to happen if Kim Il Fatty slips in the shower one afternoon and whoever takes over asks us to pick up the nukes, no questions asked. This is the value proposition that Trump is selling. Deal with Pudge's nukes one way or another. Otherwise, we help SKor and Japan upgrade their war-making abilities. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-11-08 18:59 |
| #4 Just tell those nice fellas in Beijing that none of it has to happen if Kim Il Fatty slips in the shower one afternoon and whoever takes over asks us to pick up the nukes, no questions asked. But they love their little dog. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-11-08 11:17 |
| #3 I'm assuming we're talking about used nuke boats; Giving them a brand new current tech boat would place the classified stuff out of reach where anybody might look at it. I don't know why they wouldn't prefer diesel electrics or AIP, unless the SK's are gaming the notion of shooting up the South China Sea in case of a war. Diesels and AIPs are essentially portable mine fields in an open conflict; they have to be prepositioned for area denial. If they try to run far at speed they'll show up on somebody's sonar net, leading to a hunter attack. A nuke boat's chief asset is the ability to run long, hard, and deep to reach a far target at speed. Unless you're talking about boomers circling in deep water (and that implies SK ICBM's or cruise missiles), I can't see the utility, unless you're thinking about having a shootout with China (or possibly Japan). |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-11-08 09:45 |
| #2 Chinese, and probably the rest of us, will be so sorry when Japan rearms. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-11-08 06:14 |
| #1 Beijing would undoubtedly be infuriated by any such acquisition by Seoul. Just tell those nice fellas in Beijing that none of it has to happen if Kim Il Fatty slips in the shower one afternoon and whoever takes over asks us to pick up the nukes, no questions asked. So simple, yet so tough for Beijing. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2017-11-08 04:48 |