North Korea

[BloodOmen]

China just ordered every single one of North Korea's businesses in its country to close

 

[Raven]

Pretty obvious that China would cooperate.

Money vs an ideology nobody cares about any more.

China are pretty much capitalist without troublesome democracy now anyway.

 

[BloodOmen]

Even if this doesn't escalate to military conflict, I'd say NK is pretty fucked anyway financially.

 

[caLLous]

Where can North Korea's missiles reach?

 

[Raven]

I can throw further than they can reach with a viable nuclear warhead.

Don't get yourself all worked up yet.

It's a mistake a lot of excitable people are making on social media. Just because they blew a bomb up in a tunnel underground does not mean they have one small enough to fit onto a warhead, nor does it mean they have the means to detonate it (They don't detonate on impact for starters)

What they do have is a cicra 1960s bomb (not warhead) which they propose to strap to a 1970s rocket.

We are a loooong way from them being a threat to anyone but themselves.

 

[Gwadien]

I can throw further than they can reach with a viable nuclear warhead.

Don't get yourself all worked up yet.

It's a mistake a lot of excitable people are making on social media. Just because they blew a bomb up in a tunnel underground does not mean they have one small enough to fit onto a warhead, nor does it mean they have the means to detonate it (They don't detonate on impact for starters)

What they do have is a cicra 1960s bomb (not warhead) which they propose to strap to a 1970s rocket.

We are a loooong way from them being a threat to anyone but themselves.

You keep saying this, but I'm not entirely sure you're a weapons inspector.

 

[Raven]

No, I'm not. But I think pretty much everyone who has read anything ever and not just listened to panicked idiots on the internet will tell you, a viable nuclear warhead is a very different beast to a test bomb in a tunnel.

Also, these rockets that they have are defunct, old tech that they bought on the cheap, like the rest of their military. 1970s/1980s soviet crap.

I mean, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to realise that if you attach something the size of a volvo to the front of a rocket then it will travel about 20 metres before nose diving into the ground. Detonating a nuclear weapon isn't just a case of attaching a fuse and lighting it... The reaction has to happen properly or its just a dirty bomb.

I am sure you can drum up something that says they have a warhead though, maybe you know something the western military and governments don't?

 

[Scouse]

You do like to belittle other people whilst asserting your "superior" appraisal of situations don't you @Raven.

I am sure you can drum up something that says they have a warhead though, maybe you know something the western military and governments don't?

Hmmm. One cursory search later...
"North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment."

Maybe the Defence Intelligence Agency, who are, apparently, "committed to excellence in defence of the nation", is just made up of those "panicked idiots on the internet" eh?


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