Report: US could destroy North Korea's nuclear site this weekend

[OddTrader]

Report: US could destroy North Korea's nuclear site this weekend

By Anna Giaritelli (@anna_giaritelli) • 4/13/17 7

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/r...eas-nuclear-site-this-weekend/article/2620262

The U.S. is well-prepared to respond with military action to any hostile behavior or serious threat from North Korea, including launching missiles at the nation's nuclear test site, U.S. intelligence officials said on Thursday evening.

While North Korea is warning of a "big event" in the near future — possibly by the weekend — Pentagon officials have mobilized resources to hit back at the dictatorship.

 

[OddTrader]

North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site: Primed and Ready

By 38 North
12 April 2017

A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. and Jack Liu.

Commercial satellite imagery of North Korea’s Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site from April 12 shows continued activity around the North Portal, new activity in the Main Administrative Area, and a few personnel around the site’s Command Center.

 

[OddTrader]

MOAB

Afghanistan tunnels targeted by US GBU-43 bomb, biggest non-nuclear weapon ever used

Updated April 14, 2017
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-...ll-bombs-in-afghanistan-pentagon-says/8444628

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33284...b-mother-of-all-bombs-isis-afghanistan-trump/

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, aka, the ‘Mother Of All Bombs’

The GBU-43/B heads towards its target carrying 11 tons of explosives

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb, aka, the ‘Mother Of All Bombs’




https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...s-were-falling-afghans-reel-from-moabs-impact

Smoke rises from the mountains following an airstrike in Achin district, where the US deployed its largest non-nuclear bomb used in combat on Thursday.

The explosion of a MOAB when it struck the Achin district of the eastern province of Nangarha, Afghanistan

 

[lawrence-lugar]

Easter weekend...religion brings out the best in all of us -- We're all hypocrites and fakes and inherently evil;

We just take it up to make ourselves feel temporary good and spiritual and a sense of enlightened positive purpose.

 

[OddTrader]

Easter weekend...religion brings out the best in all of us -- We're all hypocrites and fakes and inherently evil;

We just take it up to make ourselves feel temporary good and spiritual and a sense of enlightened positive purpose.

Easter weekend ... To ensure its impact to the financial markets would be minimum!

 

[Visaria]

Only killed 36 baddies though...

 

[OddTrader]

Only killed 36 baddies though...

That figure must be a make-up. Nobody could be able to know, check or verify the actual number.

39 or 41 might have a better meaning.

Map of North Korea with Pyongyang highlighted
Coordinates: 39°1′10″N 125°44′17″E


Q
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punggye-ri_Nuclear_Test_Site
Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site (Korean: 풍계리 핵실험장) is North Korea's only known nuclear test site and is located in Kilju County, North Hamgyong Province. Based on currently known satellite imagery, Its exact location is 41°16'47.87"N, 129° 5'10.51"E. The site is where the 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2016 North Korean nuclear tests took place.
UQ

 

[OddTrader]

What Would Happen in the Minutes and Hours After North Korea Nuked the United States?
https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/korea-bomba

Not that they would, but it's good to game these things out.

If you weren't paying attention to North Korea throughout 2016—a year when major nuclear powers like Russia, the US, the UK, and China were all competing for the geopolitical spotlight by doing crazy shit—it was easy to forget that the hermit kingdom keeps on threatening to nuke its enemies.

And maybe you've been hearing that threat for so long that it sounds like empty bluster, but North Korea has also been working hard in 2016 to manufacture and test the related technologies that prove that its threats are credible, especially the very impressive Kwangmyongsong intercontinental ballistic missile. A missile that, in February, we found out is capable of hitting Los Angeles.

Recent analysis suggests that in 2020, North Korea will have a "reliable" nuclear armed missile that could hit US soil. But according to Rodger Baker, lead North Korea analyst at the Austin, Texas-based military intelligence firm Stratfor, it's not a question of when their missiles become reliable. "They're probably now capable of striking the United States," he said, and added that analysts within the US military are now "operating under the assumption that North Korea has the capability, even if it's not fully demonstrated."

 

[OddTrader]

To be fair, imo, the nation which could encounter most damages among all nations in case of any serious war in the Korean Peninsula should have the strongest saying during this period of time.

That means it should be South Korea. Rather than the US, China, North Korea or anyone else.

The tunnels under the Korean border that were built by North Korea could be prepared/used for transporting not only soldiers but also nuke bombs (perhaps already resting in some of the tunnels) to destroy South Korea fairly easily.

China Warns of ‘Storm Clouds Gathering’ in U.S.-North Korea Standoff

By GERRY MULLANY and CHRIS BUCKLEYAPRIL 14, 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/world/asia/north-korea-china-nuclear.html

HONG KONG — China warned on Friday that tensions on the Korean Peninsula could spin out of control, as North Korea said it could test a nuclear weapon at any time and an American naval group neared the peninsula in a show of resolve.

“The United States and South Korea and North Korea are engaging in tit for tat, with swords drawn and bows bent, and there have been storm clouds gathering,” China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, said in Beijing, according to Xinhua, the state news agency.

“We urge all sides to no longer engage in mutual provocation and threats, whether through words or deeds, and don’t push the situation to the point where it can’t be turned around and gets out of hand,” Mr. Wang said after meeting with his visiting French counterpart, Jean-Marc Ayrault, according to Xinhua.

“No matter who it is, if they let war break out on the peninsula, they must shoulder that historical culpability and pay the corresponding price for this,” Mr. Wang said.

His comments were the bluntest this week from China, which has been trying to steer between the Trump administration’s demands for it to do more to stop North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and its longstanding reluctance to risk a rupture with the North, its neighbor and longtime partner. In a phone conversation with Mr. Trump on Wednesday, China’s president, Xi Jinping, also called for restraint.

 

[Arnie]

They have enough artillery to destroy Seoul