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2017-08-09 China-Japan-Koreas

North Korea Seriously Considering Strike on Guam: Reports, Citing State Media

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Guam has around 170,000 people on a little over 200 square miles of territory (Not about to sink.) North Korea spends around $10 billion on their military. They have a GDP of around $40 billion. Most of their external trade is with Russia and China. It would seem that if concessions could be obtained from China and Russia regarding trade with North Korea, the squeeze could be put on NK. Listening to Dr. Gorka now; he says this all about NK trying to obtain stuff/money from the U.S. like Iran did from the last administration.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-09 08:14|| 2017-08-09 08:14|| Front Page Top

#2 It would seem that if concessions could be obtained from China and Russia

The same Russia, 98 US senators voted to punish for interference in USA elections?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-09 08:30|| 2017-08-09 08:30|| Front Page Top

#3 That which cannot be negotiated will be extorted. Same old game, but this time with an American leader not willing to do the kabuki dance.

Loved the "fire and fury" thing. Easily translated and unambiguous. The Norks have said crap like this for a long time, and now "in their face."

We'll see where the "comes around" goes.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-08-09 08:54|| 2017-08-09 08:54|| Front Page Top

#4 They take out the capital or major air base, we take out North Korea and make an example that causes others to pay attention (with a man like Trump and not a cheese eating surrender monkey like his predecessor).

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-09 09:32|| 2017-08-09 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Say when, fat boy.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-08-09 09:52|| 2017-08-09 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 My guess is Guam was chosen because they weren't sure they could hit more distant targets. He might think that a lesser target (such as Guam) might enable him to intimidate and stay in power.

Personally I think such a strike would wake the sleeping giant and North Korea's little tin pot (and the Democrats) might not like the results.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-08-09 09:59|| 2017-08-09 09:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Time to call his bluff in a kinetic way. Sinking the USS Pueblo with a precision strike would be a perfect example of an act that was both salutary and could be described as a "decommissioning of US Property". Think FAT BOY would respond? This little turd needs a lesson in realpolitik manners.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-08-09 11:11|| 2017-08-09 11:11|| Front Page Top

#8 I hope that the plan is to turn NK into a nuclear waste dump if this is actually tried. Enough is enough.

How many threats have to be absorbed when the threat maker is an unstable mad man with nuclear weapons. Before the nukes they could be shrugged off, but now??

Posted by AlanC 2017-08-09 11:12|| 2017-08-09 11:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Do we know how accurate their missile guidance systems are? I haven't yet detected any discussion of that, and I know I liked to joke about their missiles successfully hitting the ocean.

Posted by Raj 2017-08-09 11:38|| 2017-08-09 11:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Haven't heard from our man in Guam for a while

Posted by Rex Mundi 2017-08-09 11:47|| 2017-08-09 11:47|| Front Page Top

#11 "Even if they hit one side, it could cause it to tip over"

Posted by Frank G 2017-08-09 11:55|| 2017-08-09 11:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Raj, I would expect they are as accurate as the most modern SCUD type. They may be able to get within a couple miles of Guam on a good day, which is why they want a nuke on it. Fire three nukes and two hit within 3 miles of the target.... major fires and damage.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-08-09 13:10|| 2017-08-09 13:10|| Front Page Top

#13 major fires and damage ... throughout North Korea

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-08-09 13:23|| 2017-08-09 13:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Harry Truman 1951 Korean Speech Excerpt and his Dismissal of General MacArthur. I believe that we must try to limit the war to Korea for these vital reasons: to make sure that the precious lives of our fighting men
are not wasted; to see that the security of our country and the free world is not needlessly jeopardized; and to prevent a third world war.

A number of events have made it evident that General MacArthur did not agree with that policy. I have therefore considered it essential to relieve General MacArthur so that there would be no doubt or confusion as to the real purpose and aim of our policy.

Maybe MacArthur was right.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-09 14:23|| 2017-08-09 14:23|| Front Page Top

#15 And now we hear that Obama and the IC knew of KNors mini-nuke and got the MSM to downplay it.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2017-08-09 19:05|| 2017-08-09 19:05|| Front Page Top

#16 in 2013

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