Breaking: DPRK Has Polaris Missiles

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Hot tea... still working

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Their air force was conspicuously absent sans the one little fly over of a group of jets in formation.

[Hoodat]

A madman with nukes and we have a president poking him....this ought to end well.

Missiles are not nukes.  It is the warhead that matters.  And as of now, I see zero evidence that North Korea is capable of producing one, much less detonating one.  I am sure very soon they will have another cave test where they fill a cave with TNT, detonate it, and then announce to the word the success of their nuclear test just as they did a few years back.

I am reminded of Pakistan and their successful test.  Right afterwards, India conducted their own show of power by detonating five warheads.  Pakistan followed by detonating five more of their own, just to show India that their process was legit and that they had no shortage of fissile material.

And lastly, a despot is not going to jeopardize having his kingdom destroyed.

[bigheadfred]

I don't think the possible nuclear threat from NK is nearly as bad as that little "problem" called Fukushima. Fukushima may kill us all yet. And so far, there is nothing that can stop that. Pop a nuclear cap in lil' kim's butt and be done with him.

[driftdiver]

Missiles are not nukes.  It is the warhead that matters.  And as of now, I see zero evidence that North Korea is capable of producing one, much less detonating one.  I am sure very soon they will have another cave test where they fill a cave with TNT, detonate it, and then announce to the word the success of their nuclear test just as they did a few years back.

I am reminded of Pakistan and their successful test.  Right afterwards, India conducted their own show of power by detonating five warheads.  Pakistan followed by detonating five more of their own, just to show India that their process was legit and that they had no shortage of fissile material.

And lastly, a despot is not going to jeopardize having his kingdom destroyed.

He will take the world down with him. 

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When you realize your military parade is more a twitter meme than it is an intimidating display of power #JucheFest2017 #NorthKorea #DPRK pic.twitter.com/FRBhOrzEAw

— Joshua C. Fiveson (@perezjudicata)

April 15, 2017

[bigheadfred]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When you realize your military parade is more a twitter meme than it is an intimidating display of power #JucheFest2017 #NorthKorea #DPRK pic.twitter.com/FRBhOrzEAw</p>— Joshua C. Fiveson (@perezjudicata)

April 15, 2017

Don't think lil' kim gives a flying RA what you think there, Josh.

[NavyCanDo]

The TV show What On Earth  season 3 episode 15 shows a satellite image of large submarine in a North Korea port capable of firing these. I checked myself using Google Maps/satellite, and indeed there is a large sub where the tv show claimed.

[geronl]

Polaris is a brand and those aren't it.

It's North Korea, it'll be called something like Wet Dong Went Boom or something

[catfish1957]

Polaris is a brand and those aren't it.

It's North Korea, it'll be called something like Wet Dong Went Boom or something

Hole-EEE Crap.  Amrazon get damn order ray wrong again.

[Joe Wooten]

I don't think the possible nuclear threat from NK is nearly as bad as that little "problem" called Fukushima. Fukushima may kill us all yet. And so far, there is nothing that can stop that. Pop a nuclear cap in lil' kim's butt and be done with him.

No it won't, so you can stop the panic act.

Fukushima is a problem for Japan, not for everyone else. The bananas on your kitchen counter give you more radiation dose than the leaking reactors at Fukushima do, and that is only if you live on the west coast by the ocean. Inland from there, you are perfectly safe and those bananas are by far the biggest threat to you.

[EC]

I'm going to have some faith that our military has a plan and what you are seeing is that plan in action. NK has caused enough suffering. It needs to end.

The military has plans. Binders full of them, if you'll forgive me borrowing that phrase.

Does the civil authorities? That's the real question.

[driftdiver]

The military has plans. Binders full of them, if you'll forgive me borrowing that phrase.

Does the civil authorities? That's the real question.

The real question is whether our military has the tools it needs to do the job.   Sequestration has saved so much money ya know

[bigheadfred]

No it won't, so you can stop the panic act.

Fukushima is a problem for Japan, not for everyone else. The bananas on your kitchen counter give you more radiation dose than the leaking reactors at Fukushima do, and that is only if you live on the west coast by the ocean. Inland from there, you are perfectly safe and those bananas are by far the biggest threat to you.

Right. No need to worry about the radiation in Japan. No need to worry about the radiation in Pyongyang.

[TomSea]

Right. No need to worry about the radiation in Japan. No need to worry about the radiation in Pyongyang.

I was amazed what I found doing a websearch and bing news search on BigHeadFred's comment last night on Fukushima.  Maybe some of what I found was alarmist but I'd encourage all interested to read and research it for oneself.

[TomSea]

The North Korean leader in this case, stood down it appears to me.

A slight consolation, even CNN yesterday had their guests commenting on how many nukes NK could have in a few years. A situation to watch.

[driftdiver]

I was amazed what I found doing a websearch and bing news search on BigHeadFred's comment last night on Fukushima.  Maybe some of what I found was alarmist but I'd encourage all interested to read and research it for oneself.

Trouble is much of what you read on it is written by alarmists.  Either antinuke or ignorant.

[bigheadfred]

Trouble is much of what you read on it is written by alarmists.  Either antinuke or ignorant.

They are talking 40 years to clean it up. They can't get a camera in there long enough to get a true assessment before the radiation degrades it. How much of a seismic event in the next 40 years will it take to crack that baby open wide? Something to be aware of.

[TomSea]

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Well, this photographer went into the town and took pictures, see at link.

[driftdiver]

They are talking 40 years to clean it up. They can't get a camera in there long enough to get a true assessment before the radiation degrades it. How much of a seismic event in the next 40 years will it take to crack that baby open wide? Something to be aware of.

Yeah the earth could open up and swallow it.  C'mon it's a local problem.   The vast majority of the bad stuff was contained within the reactor.  Not perfect but it's not going anywhere.  Biggest concern is keeping it cool

[driftdiver]

For insight into the NK culture watch this. 
https://youtu.be/AlJUGZPanB8

It's a natgeo documentary on a German doctor who went there to help blind people.  At the 47:20 you can see their reaction to his surgery.

[Hoodat]

For insight into the NK culture watch this. 
https://youtu.be/AlJUGZPanB8

Wow.

[Fishrrman]

DB wrote:
"All of NK's subs should tracked and quietly sunk. Ideally in deep water. And no one should say a word about doing it. Simply vanished one day."

Full agreement.
They should just quietly "disappear".
Should this happen to just a few of them, gonna be hard to persuade the crews of those that remain to keep going out...

[sneakypete]

They are fakes. There is no way in HELL the NK's got that technology without the aid of the Chinese and/or the Russians,and neither is about to let them have ICBMs.

I'm betting the NSA has been doing tests on trailer and trucks with identical tires to see how much the weight of an actual ICBM that size would bulge out the sides of the trailer tires.

Kim doesn't really have to fool anybody but his own people.

[Joe Wooten]

They are talking 40 years to clean it up. They can't get a camera in there long enough to get a true assessment before the radiation degrades it. How much of a seismic event in the next 40 years will it take to crack that baby open wide? Something to be aware of.

And you can still stop panicking. Fukushima is not a threat to anyone more than 200-300 miles away at most. We in the western hemisphere are safe from the effects of that plant. You need to let go of all that old KGB anti nuke disinformation propaganda. It and Chernobyl are not going to doom the planet.