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2012-04-21 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2012-04-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ] Top

#1 As per WORLD NEWS + TOPIX , Jong-un = DPRK may be secretly stashing a second Space Rocket???

Also, SAMe > US ANALYSTS = believe that the DPRK's Missle Launchers don't work, which has led a number of MilBloggers to ask how, iff true, whose "Space Rocket" [Iran? Al-Qaeda? Other?]did the DPRK launch as its own.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-04-21 00:25|| 2012-04-21 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, it's not as if the launch were successful.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-04-21 11:51|| 2012-04-21 11:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks to its missile and nuclear proliferation to its proxies, China gets another neighbor arming itself with missiles.

Posted by john frum 2012-04-21 12:46|| 2012-04-21 12:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, and in a side note, I found this handy chart:

Distance Calculator: How Far Is It From Seoul...

Vladivostok is farther than any location in S. Korea, and still only uses half the Hyunmu-3's range.

This missile's range is almost far enough to reach Mongolia.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-04-21 12:54|| 2012-04-21 12:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Thing.
Given the geography of the region, ROK ought not keep anything in Seoul, including Seoul.
It's an interesting starting point for your exercise, but someplace in the mountains a bit further south might be safer from a commando raid by sleepers or something, or being destroyed by Nork's ten thousand gun tubes and rocket launchers in the first three minutes.
For grins, look up "redleg rumba". That rate of fire is too fast for sustained fire, but if you want steel on target and don't care about the barrel, you could put a lot of bad on a target the size of a city--which means you don't have to check and if necessary redeflect and elevate--in a couple of minutes. Ten thousand of them....

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2012-04-21 16:19|| 2012-04-21 16:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Let's just say for a lot of the interesting targets within 1500 km that won't make a whole lot of difference.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-04-21 16:26|| 2012-04-21 16:26|| Front Page Top

#7 DEFENCE.PK/FORUM > NORTH KOREA THREATRENS TO "BLOW UP SEOUL" | NORTH KOREA WARNS OF WAR AS SEOUL UNVEILS NEW MISSLE.

versus

* SAME > FAMINE SPREAD IN NORTH KOREA. 20,000 DEAD IN SINGLE PROVINCE [South Hwanghe]THIS YEAR, since Big Daddy's Jong-Il's passing last December.

And its a MAJOR NK RICE-PRODUCING PROVINCE TOO!

SHADE OF "STAR TREK":TOS' CAPT. JAMES T. KIRK > KLINGON-POISONED TRIBBLES = "IN A [Starbase] STORAGE BIN FULL OF [tasy]GRAIN, THEY STARVE TO DEATH"!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-04-21 23:00|| 2012-04-21 23:00|| Front Page Top

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