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originally posted by: noscopebacon
a reply to: Ghostsdogood
Taiwan and the CCP is a WHOLE different ball of wax than Japan and the CCP
we are on the edge of peace or a MAJOR conflict that will make WWll look like the US civil war as far as the jump in tech and the new weapons we don't even know exist or cant imagine.
Taiwan was under British control for along time and back in the late late to early 2000's the UK gave it back to china.
so in that case there is more of a legit claim to Taiwan as it did belong to them, it's clear no one wants to be under Chinas rule.
the real problem is all these weak world leaders including Biden bow to Xi.
IF Biden told the fleets and ground and air forces to stand down when japan was getting HAMMERED i think Biden would lose control of the military as it would be an illegal order, Biden and hid family haven been bought and paid for.
The choice of location has two implications. Tongch'ang-dong is about 114 kilometers (70 miles) northwest of the capital Pyongyang, and about 47 kilometers (30 miles) south of the border with China. It provides North Korea with a southern launch corridor that avoids direct over-flight of neighboring South Korea and Japan.
originally posted by: noscopebacon
a reply to: fromunclexcommunicate
that's if the launchers care if their booster or whatever hit other sats.
maybe that's the goal.
imagine NorKor detonating a few neutron bombs in orbit creating mass chaos and now defunct sats would create a debris field to take out masses of sats.
why use one ASAT missile when you can use one nuclear tipped asat to take out whole orbital bands of satellites.
originally posted by: noscopebacon
a reply to: JBurns
the crazy thing is a lot of the people BELIVE the BS, like truly believe it.
that's what makes NorKor scary, the leadership of NorKor are hardliners and if the US or Japan even did tactical strikes to take out the leaders or nuclear sites they would respond by leveling Soule
NorKor has SOOOO many artillery pieces sighted in on a Soule with a population close to 10 MILLION people and they have found tunnels that go UNDER the DMZ
the claimed amount of warheads they have is around 15-20, depending on now pig they are imagine a team moving a medium kiloton range(2-400KT) in the city, most of Soule would collapse into a radioactive crater dumping fall out on the survivors that for a good amount of time would have to fend of them self.
and after that knowing the US/UK/AUS/JAP/NATO are coming to remove the power structure of NorKor they would use all of the nukes and artillery to destroy as much of they could, and open passages in the DMZ to clar mines and other man made obstructions
and if you think the leaders wouldnt order their NoKor armed forces to march into deadly fallout, i have a bridge to sell you.