CIA says North Korea can hit US

[Kevmaster]

but because they are smarter, and because the none the less have nukes, we cant get them backed into a corner and they have a HUGE negotiating piece at the table

[Rooster]

They don't have the warhead technology to actually arm said missle, and they don't have a the guidence to garuntee a meaningful hit.

Its time to be concerned, but not paniced

[edweird]

its been a while since I chimed in again here... but for you accuracy naysayers; A guidance section is a guidance section...

take it from the guy that knows airmunitions. If they have a rocket booster that can loft it high enough the guidance is the easy part. Even if they did launch it vs us we would not wait for it to dud out before launching our own return volley of mixed munitions, regardless if the North Korean warhead was nuclear or full of stuffed animals.

At least with the arms race with the old soviet union we were both "superpowers" with much to lose. Nuclear Deterance works, but North Korea is running out of reasons not to instigate MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) on Big Brother USA

[battlegroup]

Unfortunately MAD requires enough nukes to detroy the whole country. It will take NK many, many years to come up with that many nukes. We on the other hand could nuke the entire world several times over!

[Kevmaster]

Originally posted by Rooster
They don't have the warhead technology to actually arm said missle, and they don't have a the guidence to garuntee a meaningful hit.

IF a warhead landed anywhere on the west coast it would be catastrophic. Hell, if it was "lucky" enough to strike within 20 miles of LA, Seattle, SF, SD, Oakland, Sacramento, Portland or many other places, there would be millions of casualties. If it were to just strike the open CA land, there would still be ten times as many deaths as WTC

[einhander619]

I'm with mag-hatter on this one. It's a good thing I'm not president, because if I was all the countries he listed would be smoldering craters. All this slap-and-tickle we've been playing with NATO, the UN, and even liberal left wing america has seriously undermined america's ability to "flex nuts," so to speak. Now don't get me wrong, I'm against the war that will happen in Iraq(but not the war that NEEDS to happen.) But in this age, diplomacy is dead, negotiations should be carried out down the barrel of a gun. I'm afraid a whole lot of people are going to die before the rest of the world gets the message. I live in Portland, so the idea of being nuked doesn't sit well with me. I'd hope that if they shoot so much as a bottle rocket in our direction that W(who is only unintelligent to the unintelligent) presses the button.

[battlegroup]

Originally posted by Kevmaster


IF a warhead landed anywhere on the west coast it would be catastrophic. Hell, if it was "lucky" enough to strike within 20 miles of LA, Seattle, SF, SD, Oakland, Sacramento, Portland or many other places, there would be millions of casualties. If it were to just strike the open CA land, there would still be ten times as many deaths as WTC

I'm not sure of the strength of Korea's Nukes. I don't know if they are kilo-ton, or mega-ton but I know they aren't as strong as ours. A 20 mile hit will cause major problems But not as many deaths as you might think. It'll still be bad though.

[Kevmaster]

I know they arnt as strong as our nukes, but the suburbs of those citys extend so far. I haev to imagine that those hits would damage is irreprably