gofaster: Can a nuke be strapped to the belly of a MiG-17? I know our A-4s could carry small nuke warheads. I assume the MiG-17 has hardpoints for drop tanks and conventional bombs. Anybody know?
They have a highly developed missile technology.
They do not really have to nuke South Korea - the 6 million population of the SK capital is withing a range of 12,000 of the NK artillery pieces. They could wipe it out in a matter of seconds.
They could kill few million japanese and cause death of half a billion chinese with a handfull of well-placed nukes, whatever happens to them after launch.
They could certainly keep US fleets off their coasts.
Dead Man Flying: I'd like to think that North Korea displays at least a minimum level of rationality in that they use any nuclear arsenal as a deterrent to keep America and other regional competitors from engaging them in a conventional war.
I believe they are quite rational. They justrealised - maybe even in time - that the Non-Proliferation Treaty (which promises defence to a non-nuclear country in case of an attack by a nuclear country abiding to the IAEC regulations) is worthless after Israeli's 81 bombing of an IAEC-monitored reactor and US invasion of Iraq.
miko
