North Korea’s Nuclear Missile Threat

Gatestone Institute:

The mainstream media and their stable of “experts” consistently underestimate North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapon capabilities. The gap between how the media report on the North Korean nuclear missile threat and the reality of the threat has become so wide as to be dangerous.
In the aftermath of North Korea’s latest nuclear test on January 6, 2016, for instance, and its launch of a mock satellite on February 7, 2016, the American people were told that North Korea has not miniaturized a nuclear warhead for delivery by missile nor could the missile strike the U.S. with any accuracy.
Mirren Gidda, for example, writing in Newsweek, inexplicably claims “International experts doubt that North Korea has manufactured nuclear weapons small enough to fit on a missile.”
Yet this commonplace assertion that North Korea does not have nuclear-armed missiles is simply untrue.

h/t Adrian

12 Replies to “North Korea’s Nuclear Missile Threat”

The thing I wonder is how long until Iran buys the technology from NK. I’m assuming they’re waiting for the sanctions to be lifted and then they’ll make the deal.

Buying probably wasn’t written in to the deal

he said, she said
I have my doubts, as this would be of great interest to both Israel and India, neither of whom I’v read an article from about this

“…nor could the missile strike the U.S. with any accuracy. …”
The U.S.A. isn’t as big as Canada, but it’s a lot bigger than N.Korea. I don’t think it would be that hard to hit. So what if they can’t pick one particular city and hit centre? They aren’t going to be launching counterforce surgical strikes. It’s a political lever, a terror weapon, and a without ever using it, a demonstration that anyone can defy the U.S.A. and that N.Korea does.

There’s a long history of collaboration between North Korea and certain Middle Eastern countries. For example, the Scuds that Saddam Hussein used 25 years ago came from North Korea and were based on a Soviet design.

We should shoot some Timbits at them with slingshots!

I’m thinking that the fool who paid one buck for Newsweek got taken to the cleaners.

I asked someone in the know while living in South Korea.
A North Korean invasion would work out thusly (at the time): Seoul would be shelled and the US Army would re-group in Busan. Japan would receive its third nuclear payload.
Now, Kim Jong-Un may up the ante because he is mad but if I lived in Seoul, I’d consider moving.

Food supplies must be getting low in N.Korea. Every time that happens, the boy-Commie rattles his nuclear Arsenal at the West. He does this until someone increases their aid. He learned this shakedown tactic from Jesse Jackson. If he ever launched a nuke, his country would be turned to glass (unless Obama was still president).

an EMP weapon would be a really cheap way to clobber the USA and in all likelihood depending on its strength would affect southern i.e. populated areas of Canada.
retaliation would indeed finish off n korea buuuuuut . . . . .
otoh, considering the long history of American meddling in the internal affairs of the world, why hasn’t there been some move to finally neutralize the whackos running the place? maybe the ghost of Neville Chamberlain is the consultant on this.