Yahoo reporting N.K. claims to have ~100 nukes aimed at U.S.

Miles Teg · Post by **Miles Teg** » 2003-05-05 12:43am

I rolled across this http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... 0504052449 earlier today, and I thought it was interesting. If N. Korea is bluffing (which is measily the case), then they probably just screwed themselves. I doubt Bush would allow such a threat to go unanswered.. Everyone ready for Korean War II?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-05-05 12:59am

The NK government's people must really love dancing the line of suicide.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-05-05 01:03am

I will let my more military minded bretheren explain how the Pyongyang is, as usual, utterly full of shit.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-05-05 01:59am

This can only get funner...

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2003-05-05 06:47am

I doubt that they have 2 nukes..they havent tested one that i know of.
Kim ill Jong is Full o Shite

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-05-05 06:52am

There is no way North Korea could have tested a nuclear bomb, we'd see the flash or detect the sesmic tremors. As for their stockpile, they've got less then ten at most unless they managed to run their reactor secretly, which is effectively impossible.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-05-05 06:54am

OK, then, we've been working on ABM since the 1950s, and have scored
SUCESSES dating back to the 1960s (gotta love nuclear tipped ABMs),
now tell me: why the fuck don't we have a working NMD system?

That said, it's time for Mr KJI to meet Mr B-61

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-05-05 07:17am

I have 10,000 nukes! I dont have an economy, research team, or, indeed, a country, but I have 10k nukes in my backyard aimed at you right now!

now give me some food.

plz?

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2003-05-05 07:28am

Enforcer Talen wrote:I have 10,000 nukes! I dont have an economy, research team, or, indeed, a country, but I have 10k nukes in my backyard aimed at you right now!

now give me some food.

plz?

Kiss my ass.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-05-05 08:43am

Not only have they not tested any nuclear weapon, they don't have NEARLY the required delivery vehicles capable of making that threat anything except utterly full of crap.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-05-05 08:51am

Stuart Mackey wrote:
Enforcer Talen wrote:I have 10,000 nukes! I dont have an economy, research team, or, indeed, a country, but I have 10k nukes in my backyard aimed at you right now!

now give me some food.

plz?
Kiss my ass.

. . . will that get food?

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2003-05-05 08:55am

Enforcer Talen wrote:
Stuart Mackey wrote:
Enforcer Talen wrote:I have 10,000 nukes! I dont have an economy, research team, or, indeed, a country, but I have 10k nukes in my backyard aimed at you right now!

now give me some food.

plz?
Kiss my ass.
. . . will that get food?

nope...shiny nuggets....or fecal porn, however you term it, right in the kisser.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-05-05 09:54am

Sea Skimmer wrote:There is no way North Korea could have tested a nuclear bomb, we'd see the flash or detect the sesmic tremors. As for their stockpile, they've got less then ten at most unless they managed to run their reactor secretly, which is effectively impossible.

I believe that the assertation that NK is making is that they supplied Pakistan with missile tech and Pakistan supplied them with Nuclear Tech. Which, one assumes, includes schematics on how to build one.

All that is left is to do some 'cold tests' to see whether their ignition system works, and there's your Nuke. Cold tests are just the tests on an inert object, just to see if you 'implosion' wiring of HE is working properly. There is no real war to detect it.

The rest is just the processing of spent Nuclear fuel, which requires complex machinary. Which the US was accusing NK of buying from Pakistan. Assuming that they have the processing equiptment, and that they have the design to produce a bomb, and that they have 'cold tested' their design and it is succesful, then they don't really need to actually carry out a live test.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-05-05 10:10am

Vympel wrote:Not only have they not tested any nuclear weapon, they don't have NEARLY the required delivery vehicles capable of making that threat anything except utterly full of crap.

Against the US you are correct. However against the South they have ample delivery systems. The Soviets fit a nuke the SCUD decades ago and the North can likely match that level of warhead design. Firing 50 or so Scud’s with bio chemical warheads at Seoul to expend all the Patriot ready rounds while also bombarding the city and its missile defenses with conventional artillery would be fucking bad. But when a nuke comes spiraling down a half hour later things get really fucking bad. And there’s nothing like artillery fire on the roads to keep away rescue workers, the yield of any device would be small enough that the vast majority of the city would be intact beyond its windows.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-05-05 10:58am

Does NK think that anyone actually believes them? I think that they have gotten themselves to the point that the international community just kind of says 'Yes, that's nice, now go back in your hole.'

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-05-05 04:59pm

We have 1000 nukes pointed at Junior Bush! I will show you IN ONE HOUR! Praise Allah! God willing, tomorrow we will have a million nukes! There are no American troops in Pyongyang! I triple guarentee it!

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-05-05 05:38pm

Howedar wrote:We have 1000 nukes pointed at Junior Bush! I will show you IN ONE HOUR! Praise Allah! God willing, tomorrow we will have a million nukes! There are no American troops in Pyongyang! I triple guarentee it!

So THAT's where Mohommed Sahaf has found work!

I keep seeing a mental picture of Kim Jong Il with a huge field set up with little plastic army men toys set up on it, and he strolls around with dirt clods, chucking them and making 'wheeeeeee-- POW!' explosion noises... then he jumps up and down, waving his fists in the air, saying,
"I kill many Yankee dog!"

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-05-05 05:43pm

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-05-05 06:18pm

IMO, I think Mr. Bush should let it be known that Pyongyang is full of shit, then declare war on NK just for the fucking hell of it!

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-05-05 06:19pm

I'm guessing it's just Kim Dong Small being an attention whore yet again.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-05-05 06:31pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:IMO, I think Mr. Bush should let it be known that Pyongyang is full of shit, then declare war on NK just for the fucking hell of it!

And then we watch Seoul and Pusan be devastated and world economies thrown into chaos by their conventional artillery and chemical weapons. The south doesn’t have much in the way of nuclear deterrence, but they already have an effective force using their bio and chemical weapons and even long-range conventional artillery.

XPViking · Post by **XPViking** » 2003-05-05 08:38pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:IMO, I think Mr. Bush should let it be known that Pyongyang is full of shit, then declare war on NK just for the fucking hell of it!

Why can't you just shut up you 5000-miles-away Armchair Critic(TM)?

XPViking

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-05-05 08:58pm

100 nukes that quickly? Someone's god-modding.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-05-05 09:03pm

Shit, he's done with Iraq, he's not as distracted, I'm so fucked if I don't come up with something. I KNOW! I'll threaten him a bunch of nukes I don't have, I can't see how thats not a bad idea.

(a long phalic shadow with wings appears over Kim's Head)

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-05-05 11:43pm

Look at it this way:

A man standing 5km away phones you and says:

"I have 1000 longbowmen with bows drawn next to me and ready to shoot you."

You look through your binoculars at how far away they are and say:

"And?"