"North Korea's Balance of Terror" Topic
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Tango01 | 27 May 2015 11:07 p.m. PST |
"Kim Jong-un's expanding arsenal of nuclear weapons is ushering in a dangerous new era of strategic instability. Many assume that despite decades of North Korean brinkmanship, bluster, and provocation, that deterrence remains fundamentally intact. But the barrier to the outbreak of renewed war may not be as impenetrable as previously believed. Increasingly, officials and experts are waking up to the realization that we may already have entered a period marked by unstable deterrence on the Korean Peninsula. Kim regime claims to have mastered compact nuclear technology are the most trenchant indicator of a brave new world in which deterrence is based more on fear than certainty. Pyongyang's words are spectacularly cheap. But these recent words were preceded by repeated U.S. assessments warning that North Korea was on the verge of mastering the dark art of warhead miniaturization. This alleged technological feat makes more ominous North Korea's 2012 demonstration of long-range rockets and noisy efforts to field mobile missile launchers on land and at sea…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
Legion 4 | 28 May 2015 7:33 a.m. PST |
The Norks are going to do something stupid someday, and it's going to cost them Big time … |
Mako11 | 28 May 2015 2:23 p.m. PST |
I hope it costs them more than it costs us. An EMP detonated at the right (wrong) altitude, depending upon your perspective, could ruin your whole year, if not more. |
Legion 4 | 29 May 2015 11:17 a.m. PST |
I'm pretty sure it will … |
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