Norks Are Back To Normal
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Nd:tBF is itching for a war with us. He really is, he’s practically attacking the nearest scratching post to show us how badly he wants it.
Seriously, he’s brought out his newest and shiniest missile for a mobile display for all of his humble subjects to see. He’s like a proud Papa, showing off the kid before he even gets home from the hospital. That’s it in the photo up there.
From the article: WASHINGTON — “Where’s the war?” That’s how President Donald Trump defends his North Korea policy at campaign rallies even though he’s joined the list of U.S. presidents unable to stop the ever-growing nuclear threat from Kim Jong Un. That threat will transcend the November election, no matter who wins.
Despite Trump’s three meetings with Kim, the North Korean leader is expanding his arsenal. This month, Kim rolled out a shiny new, larger intercontinental ballistic missile during a nighttime parade in Pyongyang. (See above photo. Can’t miss it.)
Arms experts said the missile could possibly fire multiple nuclear warheads at the United States. It serves as a reminder that despite Trump’s boasts, North Korea remains one of the biggest dangers to U.S. national security.
North Korea hasn’t been a major campaign issue, though it could surface in Thursday’s debate, which is supposed to include a national security segment. Democrat Joe Biden has blasted Trump’s chummy relationship with Kim, saying that, if elected, he would not meet the North Korean leader unless diplomats first draft a comprehensive agreement. Trump, meanwhile, predicts he can get a deal quickly if reelected, citing the dire conditions in North Korea. – article
He indicates now that, after three in-person discussions with dTrump, he’s not happy with not having his way and wants no more talk. Talk no good now. Throw missiles at neighbors, upset neighbors, upset USA. No more talk.
Of course, Biden has to stick his oar into it, forgetting that even his hero Obama couldn’t get Nd:tBF to stop launching missiles at his neighbors.
From the article: Biden says that if he’s elected, he will inherit a North Korean challenge that is worse than when Trump took office.
“After three made-for-TV summits, we still don’t have a single concrete commitment from North Korea,” Biden said in a statement on North Korea. “Not one missile or nuclear weapon has been destroyed. Not one inspector is on the ground. If anything, the situation has gotten worse.” – article
No, it’s pretty much the same, except that it’s mostly parades and displays right now. I’m sure that, once winter is over and Fatty Kim da T’ird gets his mojo working again, we’ll be right back where we were in 1983 when Pres. Reagan spent some time at the DMZ with a set of binocs. Don’t get me started.
I know we’ll all sleep better at night, now that our Nork friend, who likes emmentaler cheeses, is back on his feet. In a world gone bonkers with the equivalent of a medieval plague, when some things start to go back to near-normal, it makes us all feel just a teensy bit better.
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", North Korea
(Zoom) Guided missiles (Zoom), Guided missiles (Zoom)
Guided missiles, aimed at my heart
Bound to destroy me, tear me apart
Guided kisses none of them true
Now I know the enemy is you, Cuff Links 1957 Dootone label
Just listened to that tune (title is “Guided Missiles”). Pretty standard 50s doo-wop, but the lyrics are certainly a sign of the times!
FuzeVt; If your into the music and want to get away from the standards then tune in to Hofstra University, Uniondale LI, NY on Sundays from If I remember 3-6 PM and you can hear collecters/obscure stuff on your PC. I think that Fordham University is still running the Time capsule show on Saturdays which I think it’s called something else but cant remember.
Quaker Gun
There’s no way we will ever start something in NK. If we succeeded with the most perfectly executed decapitation strike in history but the Norks got one nuke off at the ROK, whoever was President would bear that as his legacy to the end of history.
Now, if the Norks fire first, we’ll take the opportunity to genuinely F that country up. I don’t think, even then, we would do anything nuclear. The big nuclear threat there is only from the Norks.
Little Timmy has daddy’s gun at school and no one knows how to take it from him.
Excellent novel “Resurrection Day” in which during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Russians launched and we retaliated. Russia got flattened, but we became world pariahs.
First, a question?
What is Nd:tBF’s health and physical status?
Last I heard/read, he was mysteriously disappeared, presumed to be at Death’s Door, if not dead.
Second, all these saber rattling “experts”……how do they know that that “thing” rolling up and down the streets isn’t a plywood, foil, and paint mockup meant to look scary but accomplish little else?
Well, he appeared on the balcony the other day, looking just slightly less Fatty Kim than prior episodes of appearance. So he’s alive, and whatever bug it was that had him by the short horns needs to be upgraded…. although I do hear that his sister is nastier than he is.
I bet the engineers who worked on that are praying to every god they can think of that the damned thing will fly and hit, at least close to where it’s supposed to. Death by 40 Mike-Mike is not a good thought. But it may be one hell of a motivator to check that shit twice and three times. The trick is to then hand it off to a lower dude and tell him to check it also and sign off on it.
Presuming that it’s even supposed to fly, that it’s not a dummy mock up supposed to look good and little else (and not fall apart during the parade).
It doesn’t have to work perfectly. And it only has to work once. And it doesn’t have to hit a target. Twenty some odd miles above the continental US, you pop a nuke, create an EMP, and we’re toast. It’s that simple. And if the damn thing is launched from a container ship fairly close in, we have maybe 6-9 minutes to react. At the most.
Despite all of the advances in technology, the improvements in the quality of life, and the securing of freedom around the world, The USA basically has no friends. Say what you want, most of the countries in the world would look forward to this young whippersnapper of a country to getting its comeuppance and be more like them.
Odd how many folks want to come here and either take advantage of being in the Free Sh^t Army, destroy us from within, or take advantage of the multiple ways available that they could improve their lives.
Believe it or not, creating a destructive EMP is a lot harder than it sounds, and even if it managed to fuck up civilian electronics, most of our critical infrastructure and military gear is hardened sufficiently to where it would be minimally disruptive.
I think atmospheric nuclear detonations automatically create an EMP due to the Earth’s magnetic field, but I agree that military gear would likely be protected enough. TAH would be probably down, though, and that would be chaos.
Atmospheric detonations produce little EMP, putting most of the energy into blast effect. It is the exo-atmospheric ones that generate major EMP. It has to do with physics of the blast in vacuum, and the transition of that un-attenuated radiation wave into the atmosphere. That edge-effect converts it into EMP instead of shockwave/fireball. It needs to happen in hard vacuum, and have a good long run to spread before hitting atmosphere. Then you get megazorch.
To wreck widespread havoc with one shot takes two things:
1) a multi-megaton warhead
2) very high altitude, way above the atmosphere.
The effective engineering is challenging. It is not exactly easy to build a 5MT bomb, and the thing weighs 6+ tons in the early generation design. Or more. You need one heck of a big rocket to loft 6+ tons something like 200+ miles up, way over here from way over there. A freighter just off the coast reduces distance to fly, but complicates the launch greatly. Radiation hardened electronics are necessary for exoatmospheric use, or the thing will be a dud or fizzle. Also shock/vibration/G hardened.
It is not going to seriously damage our strategic systems. It won’t touch the subs, and it won’t appreciably degrade the siloed missiles. Many, even most of the bombers will still fly. The subsequent response will extinguish the attacker.
So some crazy might want to, but the number with any high degree of probability of success is low.
And anyone who helped that nutcase is likely going to catch hell for it, too.
The concern is not for the hardened military systems or our Strategic Forces per se. A portion of that may be OK. The concern is for the National power grid and the phone system. Neither of those are even semi hardened unless it has happened in the last few days. An E1 level EMP from a coupla megaton nuke over the middle of CONUS is gonna knock every phone and power substation on its ass. And not just the cell phones, a good portion of the land lines are fiber optic cables going to a digital converter box, if you will, and all of the electronics in those will fry. Some of those are semi protected by being in a Faraday Cage, but not many. There was discussion going on around the phone factory when I left last year about keeping more of the copper pairs available for back ups, but that is about as far as it went. Talk. An EMP study Commision was put together not too long after 9/11 and The Cool Black Dude dismantled it after he was sworn in. Without electricity and a supply chain working the die off will start almost immediately. Every Commercial Aircraft over CONUS will most likely crash because they don’t glide worth a sh^t. Cars and trucks that go brain dead and shut off at highway speeds will cause massive pileups. As the old folks run out of their required meds, and can’t get more, they’re gone. Food stuffs will spoil without refrigeration, but dumbasses will eat it because they’re starving. Water plants won’t send fresh water down the pipes once the back up generators run out of fuel. Just about every vehicle built since the 1970s/80s won’t crank. Estimates, even when I was in the nuke business decades ago and there was a lot less electronics/grid, were running in the 60-80% rate. Major cities and places like FL and NM/AZ with the large retirement population were 90% +. Heat will take out a bunch. Most people don’t think about how dependent we are on the power grid. Ex-PH2 made… Read more »
And then the folks who did it get an extinction-level nuclear event. They cease to exist, and everything immediately downwind is SOL. And whomever helped them do it also gets extinguished.
And we recover and go on.
Those doomsday predictions generally assume perfect maximum-order maximum-effect enemy action and total headless-chicken US response. Never happens that way. But the scenario sells books, and consulting gigs.
In practical terms, it can’t destroy us, and it can’t disarm us. But it could make us very, very angry.