Why Are We Defenseless Against A NORK Nuke Missile Attack?

[wacojoe]

Who is responsible? This might give a clue —

...When President George W. Bush came to office, he revitalized missile-defense efforts and withdrew from the ABM treaty. Democrats were more upset than the Russians. Sen. Joseph Biden declared, “The thing we remain the least vulnerable to is an ICBM attack from another nation,” adding, “This premise that one day Kim Jong-il or someone will wake up one morning and say ‘Aha, San Francisco’ is specious.”...
http://nypost.com/2017/09/09/how-dem...urce=flipboard

The quote is but one example of the Democrat infamy associated with the history of how they foiled various missile defense programs. They have more than the notorious fool, Biden, in their coterie. They are still there even after recent events prove their stupidity.

[Dave Grubb]

Not to argue about who screwed the pooch but this is a far more complex problem than missile defense---which we do have. The larger problem here is that because of the proximity of Seoul to NK and the limited ability to immediately neutralize a conventional artillery attack there are more than 10 million people at risk within minutes of the beginning of hostilities.

[wacojoe]

The viability of our current missile defense is theoretical and test results are uneven.
The real threat to the continental United States is an EMP attack, which also is theoretical at this point, but ample evidence exists to fear one in the extreme. Only one device needs to get through for a devistating EMP attack over a huge area.

Nothing much we can do about South Korea except promise annihilation of the North.

[Polly Goodnight]

Not worried about NK nukes (at this time)... it's bio terrorism using infected humans to deliver a cocktail of pathogens such as Marburg and Yersinia pestis into the general population...

[mgrist]

Not worried about NK nukes (at this time)... it's bio terrorism using infected humans to deliver a cocktail of pathogens such as Marburg and Yersinia pestis into the general population...

The way people and materials move the bug would be world wide within a week more than likely, probably before we even knew we had it.
Just a guess on my part but I remember when the news did a thing on how the flu spread, it doesn't take long.

[Independent Voter]

Another missile test over Japan. Another nuke test in the near future [ if reports are correct ]. Just when are the Pols in charge going to wake up.

Sure, there is no denying that there will be an unacceptable number of deaths if a war were to start.

BUT, the longer the wait, the greater the number of deaths. The fat kid is not going to be deterred by sanctions.

There are, at this point, only two options. China takes the ball and gets rid of him or, a unified allied strike gets rid of him.

The longer it is put off worse it will be.

[Polly Goodnight]

Why war??? Why not go the cheap route....drop a billion fake Won notes, the result would see their economy collapse, and their trading partners would go away. Add on a 500 million dollar bounty on the fat kid's head which could well see the start of an internecine war

[Independent Voter]

I could certainly live with that.

[TxMusky]

I noticed on the news videos of him reviewing his troops just this week, so he does appear in NORK public from time to time. A limited-yield nuke at the next parade would be acceptable to me.

Takes care of some of his fighters as well. Sometimes you just have to get down on their level, to make them understand respect.

[wacojoe]

Why war??? Why not go the cheap route....drop a billion fake Won notes, the result would see their economy collapse, and their trading partners would go away. Add on a 500 million dollar bounty on the fat kid's head which could well see the start of an internecine war

That would have a certain degree of irony due to the fact his regime has been buoyed by large counterfeiting of our currency for decades. However, despoiling the currency of a total dictatorial regime would most likely have little effect internally as a new dictat and currency issue is easy enough for him to effectuate. These are Commies after all and have no reverence for capitalist relics such as currency. The Soviets periodically made their currency invalid beyond a certain date to ineffectuate its use and continuing value just to make its surfs more dependent on the state and broaden its control. The state giveth; the state taketh away.

I see little recourse except to assasinate the mook and as much of his grinning circle as we can find in one place. I noticed on the news videos of him reviewing his troops just this week, so he does appear in NORK public from time to time. A limited-yield nuke at the next parade would be acceptable to me. Call it a massive Cluster F**k.

[Independent Voter]

While a nuke is no more devastating than a big bunch of conventional weapons, I dislike the thought of opening that particular box. Why, I don't know because as I said conventional weapons will create the same amount of destruction if used in sufficient numbers.

I do agree with the theory that if you chop off the head, the body dies. It's just that sometimes you have to continue the chop, chop until you get far enough into the body to be effective.

[mgrist]

If we kill him we'll still have to destroy the nukes, I'm betting there is some kind of contingency plan in place regarding that exact thing. Insane, crazy what ever you want to call him he and his can't be stupid. They have been in power for three generations?? is that right? If just killing him or his dad before him would have solved things I'd think we wouldn't be having this conversation.

[Phillbo]

We should shoot down anything he launches. Boom... done.

[wacojoe]

We should shoot down anything he launches. Boom... done.

Our missile defense systems are unreliable, and if we shoot and miss things get worse. That is why no attempt has been taken.

Read the original post to whom such failure should properly be attributed.

[wacojoe]

Some thoughts on whether we can shoot down NORK missiles, or the consequences of past D'rat dithering on missile defense —

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...orean-missiles