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Coligny wrote:Sooo... it's that same guy again !!!
An internal White House review of strategy on North Korea reportedly includes the possibility of direct military action or regime change to counter the hermit kingdom's nuclear threat.
Deputy national security adviser K T McFarland held a meeting with other officials ot discuss the US response to a fresh series of provocations from the North, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Mr McFarland requested for all options to completely overhaul American foreign policy towards Pyongyang, including for the country to recognise North Korea as a nuclear state and the possibility of a direct conflict.
The proposals are now being vetted prior to review by President Donald Trump.
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North Korea has condemned the start of annual US-South Korean military drills with fiery rhetoric, threatening to "mercilessly foil the nuclear war racket of the aggressors with its treasured nuclear sword".
A spokesman for the General Staff of the North Korean People's Army said the North's reaction will be the toughest ever, but did not elaborate.
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matsuki wrote:
If they already know where all the nukes and launch sites are....
matsuki wrote:If they already know where all the nukes and launch sites are....
wagyl wrote:Is there a wound to rub salt in to somewhere?
North Korea bans Malaysian citizens from leaving.
Military authorities in South Korea, Japan and the United States confirmed the launch of four projectiles, which traveled almost 1,000 kilometers (620 miles). US officials said they were extended range SCUD missiles.
A fifth missile was also fired but failed.
Coligny wrote:Sunday in a supermarket we heard the muuup alert tone wondering whyt it was all aboot...
certainly zee missile launch wurnang. But there was nothing on the yahoo alert app... which usually report anything down to every raccoon sighting on a 300 km radius...
Is there a better app for this ?
Grumpy Gramps wrote:Missiles are moenai gomi and need to be disposed of in the appropriate bags. So these Japanese are a very good role model.
Anyway better if Kim drops his missile gomi somewhere over land, where it can be collected and processed than littering an already overgomi'd sea.
wagyl wrote:Getting to the slightly serious answer to Russell's questions, the Oga peninsula is famous, including on this site, for ogre culture. Other peninsulas jutting out into the Japan Sea have a similar culture, and it is well established that this folklore has origins in raids from the Korean Peninsula terrorising the communities. If only some communities are going to have a drill, these are the communities to do it. The other slightly serious answer, which everyone embedded in a rural community will know viscerally, is that if they don't double up the fire drill with the communal de-clogging of the irrigation canals with the softball play-off with the community meeting, then an event will end up being scheduled every fucking Sunday morning at 6 a.m. It is perfectly reasonable to get everyone practicing hobbling to the community hall in the drill, and then use that opportunity where everyone is together to then split them up into "village beautification teams." It saves destroying next weekend too. Or at the very least keeps next weekend open for the tug-of-war competition.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:wagyl wrote:Getting to the slightly serious answer to Russell's questions, the Oga peninsula is famous, including on this site, for ogre culture. Other peninsulas jutting out into the Japan Sea have a similar culture, and it is well established that this folklore has origins in raids from the Korean Peninsula terrorising the communities. If only some communities are going to have a drill, these are the communities to do it. The other slightly serious answer, which everyone embedded in a rural community will know viscerally, is that if they don't double up the fire drill with the communal de-clogging of the irrigation canals with the softball play-off with the community meeting, then an event will end up being scheduled every fucking Sunday morning at 6 a.m. It is perfectly reasonable to get everyone practicing hobbling to the community hall in the drill, and then use that opportunity where everyone is together to then split them up into "village beautification teams." It saves destroying next weekend too. Or at the very least keeps next weekend open for the tug-of-war competition.
Still beats the good old days when they used to eat down airman liver.
Part of the beauty of a "left-of-launch" attack, said Lance Gatling, a defence analyst and president of Tokyo-based Nexial Research Inc, is that the North Koreans cannot be sure that any imported electronics have not been deliberately permitted to evade sanctions because they are infected with malware. Similarly, when a launch fails they are also unable to determine what brought the missile down.
"There are many things that can go wrong with a missile launch, but it would be impossible to tell from outside if something had affected the internal guidance or control systems", Mr Gatling told The Telegraph.
Mr Gatling referred to reports in the press of "left-of-launch" attacks targeting the North: "It has been openly mentioned that there is a possibility that the North's supply chain for components has been deliberately infected, and they might never know."
"It is quite possible that parts that they are importing are intentionally faulty because, through history, there have been similar attempts to sabotage an enemy's capabilities," he said, citing Allied efforts during the Second World War to infiltrate agents into Nazi Germany's programme to develop V2 rockets.
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