Author Topic: North Korea appears to have gone ahead and done it... (Read 7599 times)

BTW · « **Reply #105 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:17:21 PM »

Don't we have an energy bomb/device that can take out all electric equipment in a certain radius? Aside from the unlucky few with pace makers, that might be an option. That's if it exists. I forget where I read about it.

Chairboy · « **Reply #106 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:17:43 PM »

Second explosion detected.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20554779-1702,00.html

Chairboy · « **Reply #107 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:18:51 PM »

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Originally posted by BTW
Don't we have an energy bomb/device that can take out all electric equipment in a certain radius? Aside from the unlucky few with pace makers, that might be an option. That's if it exists. I forget where I read about it.

Weapons are easilly protected from EMP, the threat you describe.

dmf · « **Reply #108 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:19:54 PM »

All jokes and comments aside, some of us are actually a little nervous about this. Its scary to think what would happen if sombody actually used a nuke.

Masherbrum · « **Reply #109 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:22:50 PM »

I'm not scared nor worried.

dmf · « **Reply #110 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:27:11 PM »

I am, the only thing I know about Nuclear power is when they explode its bad.

BTW · « **Reply #111 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:49:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
Weapons are easilly protected from EMP, the threat you describe.

Yea but the rest of North Korea would be in the dark. It destroys (or severely damages) the electrical equipment. I think it would send North Korea back on it heals. Could North Korea replace all the electronics in its infrastructure? The point is, the 1960's cold war was a war of visible weapons. Now its a cold war of visible and *invisible* weapons. I don't think North Korea appreciates this. They are pretty much isolated and dumb. They're gearing up for a war 40 years old. Their "units" may be outdated. They're no good if they don't fly. Unless they fall back on sewerciding North Korea.

Other than the energy device, there are biological weapons not designed to kill but bring great weight on a country. North Korea is pretty much isolated and could not support that weight. No, North Korea is all about showing off their weapons. They have no idea what they face.

vorticon · « **Reply #112 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:54:44 PM »

"Could North Korea replace all the electronics in its infrastructure? "

a hell of a lot easier than you could, at any rate. being next door and on friendly relations to a very large manufacturer of well, everything helps a lot...

BTW · « **Reply #113 on:** October 09, 2006, 07:58:19 PM »

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Originally posted by vorticon
"Could North Korea replace all the electronics in its infrastructure? "

a hell of a lot easier than you could, at any rate. being next door and on friendly relations to a very large manufacturer of well, everything helps a lot...

You're absolutely wrong on that. North Korea is pretty much isolated.

RedTop · « **Reply #114 on:** October 09, 2006, 08:06:21 PM »

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Originally posted by Masherbrum
I'm not scared nor worried.

Me either. NK having a nuke....doesn't worry me personally at all. It sure worries the policy makers though. And I find that to be the one funny thing in a screwed up mess we call the U.S. Government. They all make up the tail on a huge wagging dog.

My 1 vote this election season , will not be the one that wins anyone anything. Nor will it be the one that the U.N. considers when kissing yet anothers *** in this world. Nor will it gain any assurances from any politician about doing GOOD things while in office , instead of spending their whole term trying to get re-elected.

It will not be anything to do with disarming Iraq , Bin Laden , Hezzbooloo's , Taliban , NK , Iran , Insurgents in Iraq. It will not make one difference in my belief is religeon , abortion , stem cell research , the death penaly , taxes , fair play in anything.

So...I'll vote and know that it was no more than a cleansing of the mind knowing all I had was that and I exercised it.

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #115 on:** October 09, 2006, 08:32:10 PM »

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byebye is using up all his bait in one fishing trip.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #116 on:** October 09, 2006, 08:47:09 PM »

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Originally posted by BTW
You have a guy in a crowded bar with an ak47. You can walk into the bar with 3 ak47's and kill the guy and probably a lot of innocent people. You can also walk in the bar with an ice pick (or screw driver) and just kill the guy with the ak47. The answer is in diplomacy. Diplomacy gets you close. Then you just need something sharp.

Diplomacy = Icepick...

Tony Soprano for UN General Secretary!

cav58d · « **Reply #117 on:** October 09, 2006, 09:10:15 PM »

its so funny how many anti government conspiracy theorist we have on this BBS..

anyways, I thought I heard something about US and Korean guards on the border all having a mininum height prerequisite? something like over 6 foot? Can anyone expand?

lukster · « **Reply #118 on:** October 09, 2006, 09:13:30 PM »

NK having a nuke isn't an immediate threat to the continental US but it most definitely is to our allies living next door to them. Having a nuke may embolden the north to invade the south. That will certainly mean war for the US on a large scale.

Brenjen · « **Reply #119 on:** October 09, 2006, 09:20:43 PM »

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Originally posted by cav58d
its so funny how many anti government conspiracy theorist we have on this BBS..

anyways, I thought I heard something about US and Korean guards on the border all having a mininum height prerequisite? something like over 6 foot? Can anyone expand?

All the U.S. personel have that minimum height requirement for guards at Panmunjom (not sure about the R.O.K. soldiers) The reasoning behind the decision was because the N.K. soldiers are rarely tall & it gave the U.S. guards at the shared site a commanding presence. Violence & deaths are not an uncommon occurence there. At one time, more soldiers were dying at the DMZ in Korea than in Vietnam on a daily basis.

Edit: Here's an interesting read on the DMZ during a "hot" period

Hot DMZ