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2013-04-12 China-Japan-Koreas

N. Korea knows how to miniaturize nuclear bombs sez U.S.

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Posted by Steve White 2013-04-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 I sure the armed forces of Cold War-era East Germany + other WARSAW PACT states possessed the local knowledge + proficiency to install + dev indigenous Nukes-WMDS.

THE ISSUE IS WHOM CONTROLS = PUSHES THE LAUNCH BUTTONS, WHICH WASN'T THE EAST GERMANS OR OTHER "PACT/SOVIET BLOC" GOVTS, MILITARY ORGS.

And so it is wid NORTH KOREA - the Top Eggs-in-charge are NOT Korean, BUT CHINESE PLA COMMANDERS WHOM TAKE THEIR ORDERS FROM BEIJING, NOT PYONGYANG OR THE KIM FAMILY.

Selective Autonomy = NOT the same as "Sovereign Control" when refeering to Communist systems.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-12 01:52|| 2013-04-12 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Knowing and doing are two different things, it must be noted...

Posted by trailing wife 2013-04-12 06:37|| 2013-04-12 06:37|| Front Page Top

#3 ...as the Chinese have found out with contemporary jet engines.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-12 09:46|| 2013-04-12 09:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Tweet by Tim Siedell:

Just pass a law saying you can't have nukes unless you pass a background check. North Korea problem solved.

Posted by Matt 2013-04-12 15:26|| 2013-04-12 15:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Look what former Shuttle Houston CapCom had to say about NKor rockets and min sized bombs:

Los Angeles is 9,580 air-kilometers from Pyongyang. Chicago is 10,464 km. But we're led to believe that Chicago is unreachable. Why?

Because, I believe, someone, unable to be certain of the actual range, picked 10,000 km as a theoretical range. And that was based on the now-debunked idea that NK would not have a light warhead.

Unha 3 weighed 91 tonnes at liftoff.

Thor-Able, first flown in 1958, weighed just under 52 tonnes and could boost a 318 kg test reentry vehicle (the RV part of which was so light that it had to carry ballast) to a range of 10,137 km. It became apparent to some that Thor-Able could be made into an ICBM with even longer range (they even named it "Thoric"), but USAF quashed that idea.

If the U.S. could do that with such a small rocket in 1958, there is no reason North Korea could not do it today with more mass to play with.

- Ed Kyle

Posted by Water Modem 2013-04-12 20:23|| 2013-04-12 20:23|| Front Page Top

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