NK promises nuclear strikes

[dannyboys]

The hilarious thing is if the little pervert attempted to mount a nuclear bomb on a rocket he better be visiting N. China.
The fucking creep is going to blow up his own country and annihilate all the fucking mentally insane zombies in it before he's finished.
N. Korea threatens pre-emptive nuclear strike on South, US

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - dem Russkies is always instigatin' sumpin...

Report: Russia allowed North Korea nuclear scientists to conduct research
Oct. 3, 2016 - A former member of the U.N. Security Council’s North Korea sanctions committee says there’s evidence Russia violated international sanctions.

Moscow may have allowed several North Korean nuclear researchers to work at Russian nuclear sites, including a scientist who is under United Nations Security Council sanctions. The North Korean nuclear scientists were allowed to engage in their research in Russia until early 2015 when Pyongyang stopped paying an annual membership fee to the Russian government, Japanese news agency Jiji Press reported Monday. Katsuhisa Furukawa, who served on the U.N. Security Council's North Korea sanctions committee, said the group has evidence the North Koreans were allowed to conduct studies at Russian nuclear facilities in violation of international sanctions.

Russian authorities had said the North Korean scientists' work was "not related to nuclear weapons research," but Furukawa said the researchers were working at a major nuclear research institute where North Korea was one of 18 countries in representation. The Japanese official said the Russian policy is a violation of international sanctions, adding the research center may have also hosted Ri Chae Son, a North Korean nuclear scientist under U.N. sanctions since 2009.

Russian authorities had said Ri was banned from the country after he was placed under sanctions, but Furukawa said Russian officials did not give the U.N. committee access to immigration records, which casts doubt on the authenticity of the claims. The sanctions strictly forbid U.N. member states from engaging North Korea on nuclear-related activities. Furukawa served on the committee from October 2011 to April 2016, and was in charge of investigating North Korea sanctions violations.

Report: Russia allowed North Korea nuclear scientists to conduct research

 

[waltky]

Uncle Ferd don't think Crazy Kim gonna blink...

North Korea's Nuclear Program: Are We Heading for a Showdown?
5 Jun 2017 | Joseph V. Micallef is a best-selling military history and world affairs author, and keynote speaker. Follow him on Twitter@JosephVMicallef.

If North Korea didn't exist, it would be hard to imagine it except as some futuristic dystopia in a sci-fi thriller. Marijuana is legal in North Korea. Indeed, its distribution is a government monopoly, while possession of pornography will get you shot or, worse yet, sentenced to a prison labor camp. Haircuts are tightly controlled. All North Koreans must adhere to one of 28 approved haircuts. Failure to do so may result in having police give you an on-the-spot haircut -- or much worse. Women have a choice of 14 hair styles, while men can choose from between 10. Best strategy: sport whatever haircut the Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has and you should be OK.

Judges, on the other hand, have free rein to decide how to execute prisoners, including using 50-caliber machine guns or having a pack of ravenous dogs tear apart and consume a victim. Moreover, criminals (a concept that has a rather expansive definition in North Korea) are subject to the "Three Generations of Punishment" rule. Commit a crime and not only will you go to prison, but so will grandma and your kids. Pyongyang boasts the world's largest stadium, capable of seating 150,000 people and, at 105 stories, one of the world's tallest buildings. Little sport is played in the stadium, however, and the futuristic-looking skyscraper is unfinished inside and sits empty. North Korea has also built a Potemkin-style, uninhabited village, Kijong-dong (Peace Village), along its border with South Korea to tempt defectors from the south with North Korea's idyllic lifestyle.

People walk by a screen showing the news reporting about an earthquake near North Korea's nuclear facility, in Seoul, South Korea​

That idyllic lifestyle means that the average North Korean is two inches shorter than his southern counterpart. Much of the population suffers from a lack of food, and one-third of children are malnourished. Neither of which prevented Kim Jong-il from spending three quarters of a million dollars on imported French Hennessy Cognac every year, about 800 times the average per capita income of a North Korean. North Korea claims 100 percent literacy, one of the few nations in the world to make that claim, although schoolchildren spend hundreds of hours learning the biographical history of the glorious Kim family. The country has its own calendar, year 1 being the birth of Kim Il-Sung in 1912, and its own time zone. We are currently in Juche (year) 105. On a more serious note, North Korea boasts the world's fourth largest army. At 1.2 million soldiers, it is only slightly smaller than the 1.4 million personnel in the U.S. armed forces. The military reports directly to Kim Jong-un, who at 34 is the youngest leader of a state, and who also has no military training or experience.

Pyongyang has tested five nuclear devices between 2006 and 2016, and is rumored to be readying a sixth test. In addition, it has developed a range of short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles that it claims can carry a nuclear warhead, and boasts that it will soon have intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) capable of hitting the U.S. mainland. To be considered a credible nuclear power in the 21st century, you need three things: a nuclear device capable of being fitted onto a missile, sufficient range on that missile to carry it for some distance, and a guidance system that will allow you to deliver the warhead to its intended target. Where does Pyongyang stand on each of these prerequisites?

Developing Nuclear Devices

 

[waltky]

Think tank says Fatboy got almost a couple dozen nuclear warheads...

North Korea can make 10-20 nuclear warheads, think tank says
July 3, 2017 -- North Korea has enough fissile material for about 10-20 nuclear warheads, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Quoting figures from January 2017, the Sweden-based think tank stated in a report issued Monday that North Korea is "estimated to have enough fissile material for approximately 10–20 nuclear warheads, an increase on the estimates for previous years." The report added North Korea "carried out an unprecedented number of flight tests of different missile systems in 2016 with mixed results."

But SIPRI stated it is unlikely North Korea has developed a sufficiently compact nuclear warhead capable of reaching the continental United States. "North Korea appears to have made technical progress in its military nuclear and ballistic missile programs and may have built up to 20 nuclear warheads," the report stated. "However, there is no open-source evidence that North Korea has produced nuclear warheads that can be carried on ballistic missiles." The report also noted North Korea is increasing its reserves of weapons-grade plutonium annually, and advancing the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Military vehicles carrying missiles believed to be North Korean KN-08 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles are paraded during the 'Day of the Sun' festival on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea​

But North Korea's ICBMs are still under development, according to SIPRI's analysis of the recent North Korea military parade on April 15. Global nuclear weapons trends indicate the total number of nuclear warheads is on the decline. The United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea possess a total of about 14,935 weapons in January 2017, down from 15,395 in early 2016.

Reductions, however, do not imply a decrease in spending. "The data show that while the overall number of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline, all of the nuclear weapon-possessing states are in the process of modernizing their nuclear arsenals and will not be prepared to give them up for the foreseeable future," the report states. The United States could spend up to $1 trillion over the next three decades for nuclear weapons modernization, the report states. Russia and the United States account for more than 90 percent of all nuclear weapons.

North Korea can make 10-20 nuclear warheads, think tank says

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North Korea launches unidentified missile on July 4
July 3, 2017 -- North Korea launched a ballistic missile early Tuesday, local time, into the waters along the eastern coast of the peninsula.

Seoul's joint chiefs of staff stated the missile launched from Panghyon, North Pyongan Province at around 9:40 a.m., could not be identified. "The president [Moon Jae-in] has been immediately notified," the joint chiefs said.

North Korea may have recently engaged in a rocket missile engine test, according to U.S. officials, but it has not conducted a rocket test since June 8, when the Kim Jong Un regime fired four anti-ship cruise missiles, according to a Pentagon official who spoke to CNN. The firing of the surface-to-ship missiles was confirmed by South Korea's joint chiefs of staff and by officials in Tokyo, Japan.

The Kim Jong Un regime launched a ballistic missile on July 4, local time.​

The missiles were launched after the unanimous adoption of a new sanctions resolution at the United Nations Security Council. The sanctions include a travel ban, an asset freeze on four entities and 14 North Korean officials, including the chief of North Korea's overseas espionage operations. North Korea also launched a short-range missile on May 29 that flew 280 miles.

South Korea may be preparing for a transfer of wartime operational control, also known as OPCON, currently under the U.S. Command in South Korea. Seoul's military is being "swiftly reorganized" following the first summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, South Korean television network MBC reported Tuesday.

North Korea launches unidentified missile on July 4

 

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[Picaro]

The hilarious thing is if the little pervert attempted to mount a nuclear bomb on a rocket he better be visiting N. China.
The fucking creep is going to blow up his own country and annihilate all the fucking mentally insane zombies in it before he's finished.
N. Korea threatens pre-emptive nuclear strike on South, US

Making such threats is more than enough reason to wipe out the Mad Midget's little village, and he's been making them for a long time. there is little reason to keep tolerating the vermin.