North Korea’s Missile Launches Were Failing Too Often

Post by tim333 » Wed, Mar 08, 2017, 9:07 PM UTC

mc32 wrote: post #32

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Apparently, the prevailing theory is a program to cyber-sabotage the launch systems[0]. [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/north-korea-mi...

I wonder if they could go the next step and make it fall back on Mr Kim's compound --then he'd suspect one of two things, his own people were trying to get him or-- as adversary had critically compromised his systems. Both scenarios would be equally devastating for his goals. Scuttling them at sea is nice and all --having them go up and straight back down would present the regime with quite a problem.

That would be an interesting solution to the North Korean problem if the missile was armed.

Post by tiatia » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 3:16 AM UTC

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"In retrospect, invading North Korea in 2003 would have been a far better choice than Iraq." Yeah. Sure. With Seoul in range of NK artillery and poison gas grenades. By the way, do you know why NK still exists and will exist for a very long time? Because it has 2 boarders with superpowers, China and Russia. And both powers have zero interest that the US soldiers, stationed in SK, move close to their boarders. Invadin…

> Do you know why 2 Korean states exits at all? It was not the North Koreans that brought the US army to halt. Obviously. The Chinese and Russians wouldn't engage in direct combat with the US in this day and age, though. Proxy war or no proxy war. They would of course provide material support for any resistance, assuming there would be one. However, I suspect the North Korean populace's forced reverence for Kim Jong-…

"Is that sarcasm? I genuinely can't tell. Direct conflict with the US is a terrible idea, and both countries know that."

The US has not enough soldiers in South Korea to face CN or RU. RU could probably take out US carriers and planes "at will" with their unmatched rocket technology. The last thing I heard was that RU jamming technology is also far ahead of the curve. And they have a nuclear arsenal to match the US. At the same time, RU has a boarder with NK while the US supply lines would be far stretched.

By the way, it was the end of the German Empire when the king decided to "kick the Serbs in the nuts"

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