Outlaw Yogi wrote:Work's up the $#!+ so I knocked off early ...
Just read and was about to re-post;
North Korea says U.S. 'declared war' warns it could shoot down U.S. bombers
http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/nor ... ocid=wispr
North Korea's foreign minister said on Monday President Donald Trump had declared war on North Korea and that Pyongyang reserved the right to take countermeasures, including shooting down U.S. bombers even if they are not in its air space.
Ri Yong Ho said a Twitter message by Trump on Saturday in which the president warned that the minister and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "won't be around much longer" if they acted on their threats amounted to a declaration of war.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Saunders on Monday denied the United States had declared war, calling the suggestion "absurd."
Speaking earlier in New York, where he had been attending the annual U.N. General Assembly, Ri told reporters: "The whole world should clearly remember it was the U.S. who first declared war on our country."
"Since the United States declared war on our country, we will have every right to make countermeasures, including the right to shoot down United States strategic bombers even when they are not inside the airspace border of our country.
"The question of who won't be around much longer will be answered then," Ri added.
... but it seems Warrior's onto it already.
Well there's still a functioning dozer at my place, maybe it's time I built a bunker.
How'z this for a plan?
We knock off one of N Koreas mini subs, arm with a Russian Shivkl missile, man it with S Koreans pretending to be N Koreans on the coms, sink one of China's 2 aircraft carriers, and let China annexe N Korea. .... Yeah OK, that probably only works in James Bond movies.
The thing is North Korea for all it's bluster is NOT going to do anything that will cross a line with the U.S.
The ONLY way that might happen would be by mistake as North Korea knows perfectly well a few nukes will NOT prevent a massive U.S. Invasion if North Korea does cross that line.
Thus North Korea enjoys making threats but what the North simply does not understand is the fact the U.S. will NOT put up with North Korea actually having Nuclear ICBM's as regardless of what North Korea has claimed it has not yet developed a viable Nuclear Tipped ICBM that can reach the U.S. or one of it's territories.
The U.S. Military is well aware every single North Korean ICBM it has launched has not been launched with a fake warhead equal to the weight of what a Nuclear Warhead might weigh as well North Korea most likely has NOT yet developed a nuclear warhead small enough and light enough to be delivered by one of their extremely primitive ICBM's.
U.S. Detection methods have determined that so far all North Korean ICBM launches have tumbled upon reentry from space and that if these NK missiles had actual real or dummy warheads the added weight would be prohibitive to achieving a strike anywhere close to an actual intended target.
BUT.....the problem the U.S. and Canada face is that if and when North Korea actually does develop a nuclear warhead it can place a top one of it's missiles North Korea could just simply launch the missile towards North America where it very well could detonate a nuke somewhere upon the Continent IF....IF...IF.....the U.S. Military Missile Defense somehow missed downing that missile something that is HIGHLY unlikely.
Fat Kim is well aware if he was to attack the U.S. or Australia or any U.S. ally which would most likely result in the U.S. downing the NK missile but even still if Fat Kim was to launch an attack the result would be the United States absolutely wiping North Korea off the map.
Because of this reality one that Fat Kim is well aware of....it is highly unlikely in the extreme Fat Kim will cross that line.
Most likely scenarios include a U.S. Military Decapitation Strike as the U.S. has Worldwide Hypersonic Delivery Systems which along with Satellite Targeting can hit and destroy any target or person located anywhere in the world within a VERY short period of time.
U.S. and South Korean Special Forces could also be used in a NK Leadership Decapitation Operation as well so could U.S. Stealth Aircraft and Stealth Drones.
The United States has a number of new Stealth Robotic Self Autonomous and Human Controlled Attack Drones which can loiter over and around a target for 36 to 72 hours as well as their ability to be refueled in air.
It would be VERY EASY for a USAF or CIA Stealth Attack Drone to fly at high altitude completely undetectable by North Korean radar for long periods of time just waiting for it's Target of Opportunity that being FAT KIM and I am fairly certain we already have such drones FLYING NOW over North Korean airspace just WAITING for a signal to strike.
As well the U.S. Navy has converted from it's nuclear role Ohio Class Subs refit to fire (SLCM) Cruise Missiles which are highly accurate in the extreme and such a launch from off the coast of NK would be undetectable by North Korea.
But BY FAR the one weapons system Fat Kim is deathly afraid of is the USAF B-2 Stealth Bomber.
Just ONE USAF B-2 never mind a number of them could easily slip into North Korean airspace and destroy a large number of targets at will and when the U.S. flew two B-2's to South Korea North Korea absolutely freaked out.
North Korea cannot detect the B-2, or the F-22 or F-35.
North Korea was not even capable of detecting the B-1B and the four F-15's that flew along with it east of North Korea off shore just recently thus the U.S. Military has to actually ANNOUNCE it had flown that mission as after the mission was flown North Korea did NOT EVEN KNOW IT HAD HAPPENED!!
Warrior.