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Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test by CapricornNoble on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @11:13AM (#25138472)
>>I wouldn't be surprised if it's all mapped out be the US/SK and would be taken out in the first 5 minutes of a conflict by targeted missile attacks.

Sadly no. There are so many UGFs (underground facilities) on the JIPTL (Joint Integrated Prioritized Target List) and we don't have anywhere near enough ordnance of the right types staged to hit them all before Seoul is a smoking crater. I've participated in 5 or 6 of the big Korean Theater exercises[1][2], working at a Corps-level HQ. The entire country is a reinforced underground fortress. Remember how we shelled Iwo Jima for several days and still barely scratched the defences on Mt Suribachi? NK is like that, but worse. They've had 60 years to dig in, and instead of a small island a few miles wide, the fortress is the size of Indiana.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Resolve [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulchi-Freedom_Guardian

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Re:US Navy destroyer shoots down an ICBM in milestone test by SEJeff on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @04:18PM (#25142568)
And we don't have enough B2s in Seoul to make a real dent using MOAPs either I take it? Thanks for the links, that is really interesting. Hopefully neither of us see "war with NK" in our lifetimes.
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