Mine is bigger than yours!

What riding the bomb may look like.

I'd really rather not get into a pissing contest with NK. This is kinda scary so I'm going to go look at pictures of puppies and rainbows instead.
/Denial isn't just a river, ya know
/cue "The Day After" pics

Are Barry's balls finally starting to descend?

Geologist: What riding the bomb may look like.



Came for this, leaves fulfilled

and the dick waving has begun

He's just a little intimidated by the big floating golf ball we're sending over (SBX).

I was in the USAF stationed in Korea a few years back so I am getting a kick...

In you face Kimbo!

/Its all about face
//aboutface

Oh this'll be fun...

*unfazed glaring hatred*

That's not a knife...
Now that's a knife!

Political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

Geologist: What riding the bomb may look like.

Kim Jong-Il looked through his arsenal to see if there was anything that could take out the U.S., but found that there was slim pickins.

ecmoRandomNumbers: What a détente from North Korea may look like...



Kim Jong Il is a nutjob and would risk nuclear annihilation for his subjects. They live in a reality completely detached fromt he rest of the world.

The second he sends 1 missile out of NK, we need to put 10 megatons of nasty right on Pyongyang.

I'm sure we have plenty of options calculated and ready. At this point I pity those who live in NK and are trapped there, esentially.

We can't attack North Korea without sacrificing South Korea. The moment any aggressive action is taken toward the North, they'll obliterate Seoul.

"Dear North Korea, thought you'd like to know our ICBMs still actually work. See you soon, the US Air Force"

Just a minor correction..

ohhhhh THOSE missles...
Well played Obama.. Well played

from having served in Korea, I for one am rather worried that that crazy assed Kim is willing to let his people be annihilated because of his shiat talking. Sad really, there's a nation that could use a little regime change but alas, no monetary gain from it so the fine noble people of North Korea get bumpkus.

ecmoRandomNumbers: Kim Jong Il is a nutjob and would risk nuclear annihilation for his subjects. They live in a reality completely detached fromt he rest of the world.

I think he lives in a bubble, surrounded by only people saying what he wants to hear. He might be crazy and misinformed enough to try something.

I think if he does, it will be over within in a week. I don't think we will fark around.

Well the ICBMs still work. Whether the warheads themselves still work is something I guess we'll find out soon enough.

Super Chronic: Geologist: What riding the bomb may look like.

Kim Jong-Il looked through his arsenal to see if there was anything that could take out the U.S., but found that there was slim pickins.

farkingatwork: I'm sure we have plenty of options calculated and ready. At this point I pity those who live in NK and are trapped there, esentially.

Exactly. I feel sorry for those people too. They are just caught in the middle.

But if the nut job tries something the US needs to have quick and decisive action.

You want to know what's scary about this whole thing?

I don't think Kim Dong is worried about winning a war. I think he wants to be remembered as the guy who farking nukes America.

Who cares if he is obliterated, he farking nuked America, and he would be remembered for that.

I think that's what he is going for.

jbar19: Political power comes from the barrel of a gun.


When all the fluff is stripped away, yep, that's what it basically comes down to.


foo monkey: We can't attack North Korea without sacrificing South Korea. The moment any aggressive action is taken toward the North, they'll obliterate Seoul.


Thus, the thing to do is whack nuclear capable sites in NK first, then they attack SK, then they get beat on and take heavy losses via far superior US of A air power, then they get no help from an already irritated China, then they have a coup and unseat Nutbag. Tada!

kim jon the illest

I had the chance to be on Kwaj for a MM-III flight test a few years ago. The RVs came in around midnight, burning their way through the cloud layer. It was awesome.

The event in question:

ecmoRandomNumbers: we need to put 10 megatons of nasty right on Pyongyang.

I just did that last night. With your mom.

/did I do that right?

ecmoRandomNumbers: What a détente from North Korea may look like...



Kim Jong Il is a nutjob and would risk nuclear annihilation for his subjects. They live in a reality completely detached fromt he rest of the world.

The second he sends 1 missile out of NK, we need to put 10 megatons of nasty right on Pyongyang.

that will sure show them. those 3,255,387 people whose only real crime is living there.

From what I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. has gathered it looks like it could be 9/11 times 100...

Yes, 91,100...

Basically, all the worst parts of the bible.

3skin: In you face Kimbo!

/Its all about face
//aboutface

What About Face may look like.



/hot, like prog-blues guitar licks

Glass parking lot rice paddies?

foo monkey: We can't attack North Korea without sacrificing South Korea. The moment any aggressive action is taken toward the North, they'll obliterate Seoul.

And that's why the two countries just can't be reunited. North Korea ain't got the same Seoul.

ecmoRandomNumbers:
The second he sends 1 missile out of NK, we need to put 10 100 megatons of nasty right on Pyongyang.

Corrected...

foo monkey: We can't attack North Korea without sacrificing South Korea. The moment any aggressive action is taken toward the North, they'll obliterate Seoul.

Right on the money

Those launches are cool. Used to watch them in person from 1989-1992, when I was stationed there.

That is an awsome military base also. There are not many bases where you can go on a 50 mile bike ride and not be going in circles. It's a beautiful base.

It's where I met my wife also. Those are some fond memories.

Drakin020: You want to know what's scary about this whole thing?

I don't think Kim Dong is worried about winning a war. I think he wants to be remembered as the guy who farking nukes America.

Who cares if he is obliterated, he farking nuked America, and he would be remembered for that.

I think that's what he is going for.

Agreed. He's got his whale to slay, the life of his countrymen, his family, and himself be damned.

Just out of curiosity since I can't seem to find it elsewhere, how do those minutemen III missiles work anyhow? I saw they have multiple warheads.. does that mean they separate out and do something like a cluster-bomb or what? Just what kinda area would be fubarred if one of those went off?

Like.. are we talking Rhode Island, Texas, or Alaska?

"He said it carried three unarmed re-entry vehicles that hit their targets near the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, some 4,200 miles away."

When the USAF fires missiles 4200 miles, it's to make sure we can still hit the second bedroom window of a specific house and not wake the neighbors. When NK fires missiles half that distance, they hope it doesn't explode on the launch pad.

foo monkey: We can't attack North Korea without sacrificing South Korea. The moment any aggressive action is taken toward the North, they'll obliterate Seoul.

Doubtful.

As much as I can't stand Hopey, this was a good move.

foo monkey:
We can't attack North Korea without sacrificing South Korea. The moment any aggressive action is taken toward the North, they'll obliterate Seoul.

Not so much, apparently. Sure, they have a lot of artillery tubes within range of much of the city, and a lot of rockets they can fire in that general direction, but the "Seoul Goes Boom" scenario assumes that the North Koreans will smoothly move all of their weapons out of their shelters in a very short period, that the South Koreans won't fire back, and that the USAF and South Korean air forces have forgotten how to drop cluster bombs over the few square miles that the Norks have their weapons parked in.

No to mention, of course, the high possibility of a series of well-placed airburst nukes all over the North Korean artillery zones if they fire off a nuke of any kind, in any direction.

ecmoRandomNumbers: Kim Jong Il is a nutjob and would risk nuclear annihilation forof his subjects.

FTFY

FTA
"On clear mornings, missile launchings from Vandenberg can be seen as far away as Los Angeles, 140 miles to the southeast, but fog along the coast made Monday's launch difficult to see even in the immediate area, Geoffroy said."

Man what jerkwad spells his name with roy at the end? Dose that make his name Geoff-Roy rather than Geoffrey? not that I take personal issue with this at all!

jimhill: I had the chance to be on Kwaj for a MM-III flight test a few years ago. The RVs came in around midnight, burning their way through the cloud layer. It was awesome.

The event in question:

I'm trying to convince my wife that doing a rotation on Kwaj would be great. All I have to do is say yes and I have an accompanied slot waiting on me. Unless that slot got cut too! I'm getting sick of all these DoD related lay-offs. I've already been told to start looking for a new job by my boss.

/threadjack over

Super Chronic: Geologist: What riding the bomb may look like.

Kim Jong-Il looked through his arsenal to see if there was anything that could take out the U.S., but found that there was slim pickins.

YEEEAH HEEEWWWWWW!!!!

Man On Fire: ecmoRandomNumbers: What a détente from North Korea may look like...



Kim Jong Il is a nutjob and would risk nuclear annihilation for his subjects. They live in a reality completely detached fromt he rest of the world.

The second he sends 1 missile out of NK, we need to put 10 megatons of nasty right on Pyongyang.

that will sure show them. those 3,255,387 people whose only real crime is living there.

Shut up Man On Fire, you appeaser

Just curious... is there a strategic or realistic way for the US & S. Korea to address all the munitions/weaponry aimed at S. Korea? I'm sure we know where lots of them are..... how fast and accurately would we be able to neutralize them? How many could we knock out of commission in a short period of time? How would we do it?

/no, I am not Dear Leader trying to get a heads up...

Nanan: ecmoRandomNumbers:
The second he sends 1 missile out of NK, we need to put 10 100 megatons of nasty right on Pyongyang.

Corrected...

Ummm, I think that might actually take out part of Russia and China. Not really the best idea.