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byrvw ( 755107 ) writes:
I just read those two lines under that nice picture.
Some analysts say the half-dozen missiles showcased at the military parade were fakes.
So the ones they showed in a parade are fakes. Now how smart do you have to be to decide to use fakes in a parade? I mean, you have maybe only two of them working, maybe only one, or maybe even six in good condition. Why take the risk that something happens while showing them off? Showing them in a parade means they are not ready to use if the US or the South attacks. (How unlikely this might be to us, they have a different perspective.) The decoys might b
bySockatume ( 732728 ) writes:
The whole point of the parade was to demonstrate that they had the weapons, though. Why hold the parade just to show off obvious fakes?
"We have matched your capabilities with papier mache and toilet roll tubes. Resistance is futile."
bywhoever57 ( 658626 ) writes:
The whole point of the parade was to demonstrate that they had the weapons, though. Why hold the parade just to show off obvious fakes?
You ignore the target of the message. They were not trying to show the US that they had missiles, they were trying to show their own population that they had missiles.
bySockatume ( 732728 ) writes:
Precisely my point. As far as we know - and I'm inclined to believe - they don't actually have working missiles yet. They have a PR exercise.
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byTWiTfan ( 2887093 ) writes:
Oh, they definitely have them. It's just a question of how well they work and what their range is.
byNatasRevol ( 731260 ) writes:
How many of these 'definite' working missiles have they launched in the last 20 years?
In any capacity - proof of concept, testing, threat posturing, attack.
I can't recall anything but words actually being launched from North Korea.
byMoses48 ( 1849872 ) writes:
A google would have told you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_Korean_missile_tests [wikipedia.org] 6 in the last 20 years. Their range is "likely" able to hit hawaii, but not mainland US if we go by their missile launch records. Whether they have nukes small enough to fit into a missile warhead is another question we don't know.
byNatasRevol ( 731260 ) writes:
Sorry, it looks like they had one set of successful tests, in 2009, of any missile/rocket launches in the last 20 years.
The rest ended in failure, most less than 60 seconds into flight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_Korean_missile_tests [wikipedia.org]
bySecurityTheatre ( 2427858 ) writes:
You're only talking about LONG range missiles (capable of hitting the US).
They have had at least a dozen successful tests of a short-range missile based on the old SCUD design that could hit parts of Russia and Japan (as well as S Korea and parts of China, obviously).
They are even said to have exported this design to Iran and Pakistan.
Here is a history of North Korean Scud missile designs and mentions a number of successful tests:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud#North_Korea [wikipedia.org]
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byCrimsonAvenger ( 580665 ) writes:
what are the capabilities for a N.K. submarine based nucleur launch?
Zero. Assuming, for the sake of argument, that they have such a missile, they do not have a submarine capable of launching such a weapon.
And the lack of submarine to test the SLBM from means that even if they have the missile, they've never actually tested it, and are in no position to test it in the foreseeable future.
And an untested ballistic missile is about as much of a threat as another statue of the Dear Leader (or whatever the la
byHognoxious ( 631665 ) writes:
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Hi Dubya, long time no see.
bySecurityTheatre ( 2427858 ) writes:
They are fairly adept with short-range missiles. During the Iran/Iraq ware, Iran was actually purchasing missile technology and production-ready missiles from North Korea. A number of these were launched and fell on Baghdad and other cities.
Their range, however, is short and would be barely capable of striking Japan (though S Korea is obviously in range).
byAnonymous Coward writes:
They launched that satellite not long ago and utterly failed to put it into orbit. If I recall correctly, the entire launch trajectory was way off, as if they just slapped together some parts, pointed the rocket up and launched with no prep. That's about the limit of their ability.
bytchdab1 ( 164848 ) writes:
Of course, you don't need a missile to deliver a nuke to a place where it can do a lot of damage - as evidenced by nearly every nuclear test ever done.
And you don't need a nuclear explosion to disperse enough radioactive stuff in a populated area to do a lot of damage, as evidenced by Fukushima or Chernobyl.
So why is everyone hung up on the missile capabilities of North Korea?
byHognoxious ( 631665 ) writes:
Of course, you don't need a missile to deliver a nuke to a place where it can do a lot of damage - as evidenced by nearly every nuclear test ever done.
Are you suggesting they send the warhead via FedEx?
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