North Korea fires missile over Japan

Re:North Korea fires missile over Japan by kabdib on Monday August 28, 2017 @08:39PM (#15121314)

I'm less worried about NK missiles than I am about a boat with an NK nuke on board, detonated in a harbor. A "smugglers war".

I'm assuming the US Coast Guard is all over this kind of threat, but I don't know how hard it is to detect a bomb hidden aboard in some cranny, shielded by multiple layers of inches-thick steel.

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Re:North Korea fires missile over Japan by boomboomsubban on Monday August 28, 2017 @09:52PM (#15121574)

>I'm less worried about NK missiles than I am about a boat with an NK nuke on board, detonated in a harbor

How does North Korea benefit from an attack like that? The regime isn't suicidal, every move they make is to strengthen their own position.

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Re:North Korea fires missile over Japan by pcurve on Monday August 28, 2017 @10:15PM (#15121647)

That's assuming it can be traced to NK after detonation.

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Re:North Korea fires missile over Japan by boomboomsubban on Monday August 28, 2017 @11:51PM (#15121966)

What is the benefit in that situation? They know any attack will make the US more hostile, whether they're involved or not.

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Re:North Korea fires missile over Japan by treetoppin on Monday August 28, 2017 @08:50PM (#15121370)

Im not privy to the nitty gritty of the Coast Guard's Maritime Safety ans Security Teams (MSSTs) operations, but finding a nuclear weapon on a vessel is fundamentally a needle in a haystack problem. The best way is going to be intel driven - it is just too easy to hide from a physics standpoint.

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Re:North Korea fires missile over Japan by fastball on Monday August 28, 2017 @09:59PM (#15121600)

  inches-thick steel

Lead would probably work better.

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