North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S. analysts say

Re:North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S... by etaty on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:32PM (#14960231)

Well, with so much effort to isolate North Korea and bring them on the path of war with repeated threat, I would not expect less from them. And knowing the past history of the USA in deescalating conflict, I would expect war at some point.

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Re:North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S... by throwasehasdwi on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:41PM (#14960341)

Well, North korea has been working on nukes for like 40 years and there hasn't been a war yet so I don't think the US is as eager as you think.

You don't see anything wrong with a madman in a country always on the edge of collapse that's constantly threatening to turn the USA into a crater having nuclear weapons?

Kimmy is over there threatening to bomb out the US and Japan and put everyone's heads on pikes pretty much weekly. I don't recall even our crazy fucker president Trump saying anything remotely close to that.

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Re:North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S... by philipodonnell on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:07PM (#14962711)

Yeah, but they're always just threats, that's kind of the point for him. Its always for the audience at home.

Prevailing wisdom seems to be that Kim treats nuclear weapons as an important deterrent from invasion, not a first-strike weapon. The US doesn't have much appetite for invasions atm, so the chances the missiles will ever be fired is pretty remote even if he does have them.

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Re:North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S... by bitL on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:17PM (#14960835)

It's different if you have baby nukes you can't launch, and if you have MIRV ICBMs with mastered launch from submarines; i.e. one submarine capable of wiping out the whole west coast. There was recent noise that NK is testing (so far unsuccessfully) submarine launch for their new ICBMs; once they are successful, it stops being kindergarten stuff but a global issue.

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Re:North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S... by throwasehasdwi on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:32PM (#14963582)

They have nukes and working ICBM's... It's not that hard to put the two together.

Submarine launch is harder and the warheads must be smaller, but ICMB's are already considered unstoppable so it doesn't matter.

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Re:North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S... by malnourish on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:42PM (#14960355)

The question is will it be much of a war?

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Re:North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S... by throwaway91111 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:44PM (#14960382)

It will be to South Korea. Millions would die.

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Re:North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S... by gehwartzen on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:08PM (#14960712)

Which is why I think South Korea should ultimately be the one to decide if there should be a strike/war. The US is probably more protected based on distance and that the US has shown (granted provisionally) that it can shoot down an ICBM.

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Re:North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S... by throwaway91111 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:54PM (#14961237)

While the nuclear weapons are in flight, north korea could level Seoul.

Furthermore the citizens in north korea have a right to not be summarily executed because they had shitty leaders.

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Re:North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S... by jonknee on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:47PM (#14960413)

The effort to isolate North Korea is mutual. They're not exactly itching to join the global community.

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