More News from Norkiland…
… and I guess we’d better take Fatty Kim da T’ird (aka ND: tBF) seriously. Per this article from BBC News, the Norks have launched four (4) ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Sunday evening at 22:36GMT, or whatever your time zone is.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39175704
No, this is not a good thing. They were launched from Tongchang-ri near the northern Nork border and went about 1,000 KM (620 miles) before dropping into the ocean. There’s a map with the article, and I will update this if there is anything new on Monday. He seems to be improving his missile systems exponentially.
It’s obvious Fatty Kim da T’ird wants to be the Big Cheese in the koi pond, but he’s making his neighbors to the South quite nervous, never mind what he’s doing to the Japanese who are certainly not his enemy. Someone needs to sew his ass shut, in my opinion.
His dad must be so proud.
Category: Breaking News, North Korea
That’s some mighty fine shooting there, NDtBF! Hit the ocean, every time.
Maybe China will annex North Korea after they clip Fatty Fat Fuck.
He’s getting a tad too frisky for my taste.
And extremely unstable.
We should sleep well, Lars says we have nothing to fear.
It’s well past time the little pervert made his exit. He cannot be dealt with rationally. His power is based on a regional military force… AND EVER EXPANDING NUCLEAR REACH.
Why his own inner circle doesn’t deal with him is a mystery. And why Russia gives him a pass, despite bordering his country with it’s main Asian port, Vladivostok within striking distance of his nukes, is equally mystifying.
“North Korea is barred under U.N. resolutions from any use of ballistic missile technology. But six sets of U.N. sanctions since Pyongyang’s first nuclear test in 2006 have failed to halt its drive for what it insists are defensive weapons.
Last year the country conducted two nuclear tests and numerous missile launches in its quest to develop a nuclear weapons system capable of hitting the continental U.S.”
Tokyo calls North Korea’s latest missile launch a ‘grave threat to national security’
Six sets of UN sanctions….
As every good parent knows, there is a time to stop saying “Don’t do that” and a time to paddle the miscreant’s hindquarters.
A round of Nuke da Kim ought to be a good start.
Word.
So a UN sanction is basically the equivalent of a restraining order against an abusive ex-husband.
Indeed, right after they kill some Japanese citizens someone may get around to doing something about something…it won’t help the dead at all, but it will look like something….
As long as it isn’t just a strongly-worded response….
Great analogy, Martinjmpr.
You know, as I sit here on CP Hovey, in the northern most US combat unit in the ROK, it occurs to me that I shouldn’t have to read the international news or get frantic emails from family back home telling me when lil Kim and NorKs do something lie this.
Seems like this is the sort of thing we should be kept aware of here. The first missile was fired an hour and a half before morning formation. Not a peep from the CSM.
I mean if they want us to project a calm ‘business as usual’ approach to the northern nut, just to annoy him by our lack of response, we can totally do that. But it would still be nice to be informed and aware of the situation.
A month ago we did at least have a super indepth E&E powerpoint. Summarized it went something along the lines of “If you accidentally find yourself in North Korea, escape and evade your way south. But don’t look like you are escaping and evading” I shit you not.
~Apache 2~
A/1-4 Cavalry “Quarterhorse”
CP Hovey is now THE farthest Northern U.S. installation over there? Well, I was there 92-93 when they first moved 2ID HQ from Camp Casey to Red Cloud in Uijongbu and we still had Camps Liberty Bell and Greaves North of the Imjin River.
It is indeed. The majority of Casey/Hovey is shutting down within the year. All US Forces are moving out of Area 1. Majority going to Humphreys.
THAT’s gonna be a huge blow to the business community in TDC if it hasn’t been already! Do they still have the big Garrison in Yongsan? I still look back at some of my party escapades in Itaewon and wonder how I’m still alive…
They do. Most of the area around here is already a ghost town. They are gentrifying it though as supposedly they are building a university here in Dongducheon.
Damn fat fingers, reported my own comment. Disregard TAH gods.
I’m sure that “Slicky Boy” is still a major case of heartburn when you’re in the field over there, he was for us during my time!
Honestly I have no idea what that means API.
“Slicky Boy” was the term used to describe the Koreans that would sneak into a field location and literally steal everything but your Weapon and in some places he’d even cut locks off of vehicles to go on a ripoff spree.
No, Smitty, you should not be getting this news from family or from TAH.
It does appear to be a test firing. Three of those missiles fell into the Sea of Japan. However, Japan is visibly annoyed over this, as are South Korea, the Kremlin and (so far) France.
Stay tuned. There may be more to come.
Smitty,
That truly sucks ass. Ummm if I remember correctly…isn’t the Cavalry supposed to be out front, looking for the bad guys, verifying intelligence estimates, being the speed bump for the evil red hordes and all the good jazz? At least that’s the kind of thing I remember training for in my own Cav days. Well that and a whole bunch of other Army stuff.
Don’t shoot at the “Zero’s”, this time the Japanese will mostly be on our side.
I’m sure your battalion S-2 knew about it, as did the Brigade S-2 and Division G-2.
I don’t know what it’s like now, but when I was there the ROK did not have what we would have considered a “free press.” So as for what’s disseminated publicly to the troops, the issue there may be that if the information hasn’t been approved by the government of the ROK for release to its own citizens, you can’t distribute it to Private Snuffy, because Snuffy might just have a Yobo or two down in the ville. 😉
NDtBF has done one sensible thing He hasn’t done the obvious and went full bore and invaded South Korea.
His moves are all about standing up to the US and posturing in front of his public.
Pretty sure South Korea would stomp a mudhole in any Nork Forces that came south.
It would be bloody as hell though. The North Would suffer a vast majority of the casualties but the South would have tens of thousands of casualties as well, in all probabilty innocent civilans.
I can’t help but think that if Lil Kim gave the order to attack the South, a cohort of his generals would arrange for Kim to be hospitalized for his obvious mental condition.
The North Korean military may be led by fanatics but I don’t think it’s led by idiots.
North Korea is tremendously strong – in a DEFENSIVE posture, meaning that any South Korean or US attack Northward from the MDL would be costly, bloody and slow.
But OFFENSIVELY the North Korean military is badly equipped, poorly trained and lacking in just about everything except revolutionary zeal.
Furthermore, South Korea is at least as strong defensively as the North, probably more. Unless they’ve dismantled the obstacle belts that go across the peninsula, any attack – in either direction – would hit “Stalemate” status pretty quickly and at that point it would be up to the politicians to decide.
By “Obstacle Belts” you mean things like the “Rock Drops” and Anti-Tank Obstacles I saw all over the place when I was over there?
Yup. Back in the 80’s/90’s the plan was for at least 4 successive obstacle belts that would stretch across the entire peninsula. They would be called FEBA A, B, C and D. When I left in 92, FEBA A was complete (The farthest north), and B was under construction. I don’t know if they ever finished it or if they scrapped the plan but they did have some impressive rock drops, tank traps and mine fields.
I was there 92 – 93 and saw plenty from the Imjin Gang (River) down to just past Seoul.
FYI, for clarity, nK shot rockets
For clarity? FYI, Norkiland is working on producing a small enough nuke for delivery by missile. I believe that’s called a nuclear MISSILE, not a nuclear ROCKET.
If Wikipedia is correct, the difference is whether the projectile was guided at any point during flight or whether it was simply pointed and fired.
If it was guided during a portion of its flight it would be considered a missile. If it was simply pointed and then fired, without subsequent guidance, it is a rocket.
I think they were actually guided, as in using a set of coordinates, but I have no details on that.
The Rodong has an inertial guidance system, if that is what they launched.
I believe the article says that they were using SCUDs and NoDongs.
They are one and the same, also known as a Scud-C too. 🙂
Here are the latest in updates.
This article repeats most of what happened, with some additional copy.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSKBN16C0YU
Meantime, per this quote from Reuters News: “Moscow is seriously worried about North Korea’s latest missile drills, which saw Pyongyang fire four ballistic missiles into the sea off Japan’s northwest, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
“Definitely, we are seriously worried – these are the sort of actions that lead to a rise in tension in the region and of course in this situation, traditionally, Moscow calls for restraint from all sides,” Peskov told a conference call with reporters.”
And the French are condemning the action, per Reuters: “France on Monday condemned North Korea’s firing of four ballistic missiles into the sea off Japan’s northwest.
A French foreign ministry statement said Paris would consult U.N. Security Council members on the issue.”
That’s all I have right now. I think the appropriate thing to do would be to do a flyover that whacks the Pueblo where it sits now, just to let them know we can… but that would upset that cheesey little basterd Fatty Kin Da T’ird.
…What they need to do is send over a B-2 with an INERT Mk84 and a precision guidance package. Two thousand pounds of steel and concrete going through the deck of the Pueblo will also go out the bottom, and she’ll sink in minutes. The evidence will be buried in the river bottom, and if we have the good sense to sanitize the bomb body and guidance package first, they won’t be able to prove a thing, even if they recover it.
One way to deplete their capability…encourage more splash downs.
They are working on producing 3 to 10 kiloton yield warheads now. I’d say aim carefully and confirm the splash down.
Another update from Norkiland, thanks to the BBC. Per the linked article, the four missiles launched were either SCUDS or NoDongs. (snerrkkk!)
Both are medium-range, capable of carrying a small warhead.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39184216
Not meaning to belabor this point, but ND:tBF is begging for a smack up side the head. Perhaps it’s time he got a taste of his own medicine. After all, Norkiland is one of those blank spots on the ‘Earth at Night’ NASA shot: no lights at all. Should be that hard to find the Pueblo and blow it to bits in the daylight.
Oh, while I’m at it, here’s a report that B52s are delivering some messages to the ISers. This is from January 2017. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/01/20/more-than-100-core-al-qaeda-fighters-killed-in-u-s-strike-in-syria.html
Another follow-up: the US is sending a THAAD system to South Korea to boost its defense against Nork missiles.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-white-house-idUSKBN16D2EQ?il=0
“The UN Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting for Wednesday after a request by Washington and Tokyo to discuss additional measures following the launch.”
All is well now, the UN is having an emergency meeting. Whew.
North Korea missiles ‘drill for strike on US bases’: KCNA
Oh, that makes me feel SO much better!
The UN is on it, boys and girls!
Nothing to see here! Move along!
Oh – uh, should I stay up on watch all night over this ? I could make a batch of cookies. Chocolate chip, extra vanilla.
Cookies, where at?
My kitchen table.
Milk?
2%, there’s a gallon in the fridge. Also, hot tea and hot cocoa. It’s a mite chilly this morning.
OH, so the United Nothing will now send fatty ‘lil NDtBF ANOTHER LETTER telling him about their disapproval? YEAH, that’ll make him straighten up.
UPDATE: In the ongoing squabble between Norkiland and Malaysia over who is who and what is what in the murder of Kim Jong-Nam last week, Norkiland is now holding prisoner any and all Malaysian citizens within its borders, and Malaysia is doing likewise. By ‘prisoner’, it’s defined as preventing them from leaving.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39189381
So herein lies the question? are the Norks really Orcs, and is Norkiland actually Mordor, or just a wannabe?
And another UPDATE: It seems that the Chinese (Beijing) are upset about the US’s sending a THAAD defense system to South Korea, because the system’s radar can read ‘deep into Chinese territory’, meaning we can sneak a peek at what they’re really doing.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39188826
Well, Beijin shouldn’t be upset about it, because they forget the Norks might do something really stupid and fire a few missiles at them. Just wait ’til those 3 to 10 kiloton** warheads are up to snuff.
**10KT was the yield of the bombs that wiped out Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Remember those?
Nope, I think Fatty Kim da T’ird needs to be smacked down good and hard, just like the rest of you do, but unless he actually pops a few at Japan or Seoul or a US military base, it has to be viewed mostly as posturing, just like the Iranians are doing.
Anyone think Avon’s Skin-so-Soft would work on these annoying bugs?
Now they are threatening “actual war”.
North Korea warns of ‘actual war’, U.S. calls it ‘pariah’
I love this part:
“During the 90-minute session, envoys from more than 20 countries, including North Korea’s main ally China, as well as Britain, France, Russia and the United States, condemned North Korea’s test-firing of four ballistic missiles on Monday.”
I am glad to know that China is getting testy about Fatty Kim da T’ird, because he is just as capable of launching a few strikes at them as he is likely to send to South Korea and Japan.
The Chinese could have smacked him down hard when they had the chance. Now, everyone has to deal with it.
Latest update, and then we’ll have to wait until morning to get more news unless that idiot has fired off more of his toys. It appears that Mr. Trump will have to deal directly with this nuisance, after all. I think he should call a meet among XiPing, Vlad and himself, and agree to stop this before it goes any further. If the little basterd wants a war, give him what he’s asked for.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-trump-analysis-idUSKBN16F08O
And this:
North Korea preps new missile test as THAAD arrives in South Korea
In addition to another missile test, Fatty Kim da T’ird has ‘banned Malaysian citizens from leaving North Korea’. In other words, he’s taking hostages.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-malaysia-kim-idUSKBN16E0FE
The UN is ‘urging’ China and Norkiland to ‘settle their differences diplomatically’.
And now, China is presenting ‘an offer’, asking that the US/South Korea cease their joint defense exercises.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39202088
China makes a lot of stuff used/sold in the US. Maybe we could find another country, like – say, Vietnam, who could use the jobs. My jeans are made in Mexico. Check the ‘made in’ labels on your collection of personal stuff.
Gee, maybe we could just bring all that stuff home??? Now, there’s a thought.