9-27-17

“Effective Communicator” President Trump said the U.S. Armed Forces are “totally prepared” to respond to North Korea, one day after the regime threatened to shoot down American warplanes.

Donald Trump warns North Korea ‘if we have to take military action we will’ as war of words continues. The US President said military force would be “devastating” for Pyongyang although it is not his preferred option.

The crux of the matter is that unlike Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan, a war with North Korean will be a race against time. Giving North Korean chance to retaliate will result in catastrophe. Traditional warfare methodology with boots on the ground will not be an apt option. Keeping this in view US will have to bring in the big weapons from the very beginning including possible use of tactical nukes. The war will be swift and will be fought at lightning pace.   (continued after the videos)

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Russia fires HUGE missile as North Korea nuclear crisis sparks WW3 fears RUSSIA has conducted a successful test launch of the RS-12M Topol ICBM missile as global tensions with North Korea threaten to boil over.

Russia a Bit Nervous Flex Nuclear Muscle

Source Israeli News Live

Russia fires HUGE missile as North Korea nuclear crisis sparks WW3 fears – DAILY NEWS

Sources Daily News

US will take ‘devastating military option’ to end Kim & Russia launches ICBM & More news!

-Trump warns US will take ‘devastating military option’ to end Kim -Matter of very short time’ before N. Korea has capability to send nuke to US -READY TO STRIKE: North Korea moves warplanes into US bombers’ flight path after warning Trump they’ll shoot down any American jet they see -China says situation on Korean peninsula very dangerous -NATO practices shooting North Korean nukes out of the sky in Scottish war games – North Korea threatens electromagnetic pulse attack -Russia test-fires ‘Topol’ ICBM with new advanced warhead

Source Evangelist Dina Amelia Kalmeta

WHY A POTENTIAL CONFLICT BETWEEN US AND NORTH KOREA WILL BE VERY SHORT

North Korea’s foreign minister has accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war on his country and said Pyongyang had the right to shoot down US bombers. Ri Yong-ho said this could apply even if the warplanes were not in North Korea’s airspace. The White House dismissed the statement as “absurd”. The Pentagon warned Pyongyang to stop provocations. A UN spokesman said fiery talk could lead to fatal misunderstandings.

Source Defense Updates

Trump says potential military action would be “devastating for North Korea”

Major Garrett reports

Source CBS This MOrning

Does North Korea have capability to shoot down US bombers?

White House: ‘Absurd’ to claim US declared war on North Korea; insight from Rebeccah Heinrichs, Hudson Institute fellow

Tensions in Mideast after Kurdish independence referendum

Neighboring countries threaten economic and military responses; Benjamin Hall reports from Irbil

Sources Fox News

Trump warns North Korea ‘if we have to take military action we will’ as the war of words continues

IMPORTANT!

Continued from Defense Updates

CHEMICAL WEAPONS North Korea is known to possess chemical weapons (CW). While assessing CW stockpiles and capabilities are difficult, the DPRK is thought to be among the world’s largest possessors of chemical weapons, ranking third after the United States and Russia. In 2012, the South Korean Ministry of National Defense estimated that the DPRK possesses between 2,500 and 5,000 metric tons of chemical weapons. North Korea is believed to be capable of deploying its stockpile of chemical agents through a variety of means, including field artillery, multiple rocket launchers, FROG rockets, Scud and Nodong missiles, aircraft and unconventional means. This situation will warrant the use of lethal force with possible use of tactical nuclear weapons.

ARTILLERY While North Korea’s massive forces are largely primitively equipped, Pyongyang possesses the capacity to launch a devastating artillery strike on the city of Seoul. The opponents’ capitals are just 120 miles apart, with Seoul within 35 miles of the border. Most of the North’s artillery pieces—numbering in the thousands—are already in place camouflaged and dug in. North Korea’s artillery pieces include the 170 mm Koksan, which has a range of about 25 miles (40 km), using conventional projectiles. However, the Seoul is well within range of the Korean People’s Army rocket-assisted shells—which have a range of around 40 miles (60 km), if the guns are stationed near the border region. An artillery barrage will result in huge civilian casualty apart from loss in property and destruction of infrastructure. This scenario will again force US to use military option that can subdue the North Korean forces quickly, and this is potentially possible with use of tactical nukes.

NUKES WITH ICBM North Korea tested intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) named HWASONG-14 on that has the range to hit major US cities. North Korea has tested this ICBM twice in July and both times the test was successful, marking a major milestone for the country. This is the first time North Korea has demonstrated the capability to strike US homeland. A missile is as destructive as its warhead, which is why North Korea is running missiles and nuke program in parallel. In total North Korea has conducted 6 nuclear tests till now. The first nuke test was conducted by North Korea on Oct. 8, 2006. As per the United States analysts, it had a yield of less than one kiloton of TNT. Blasts have become more powerful since then. The device tested by the North recently had a yield of more than 100 kilo tons of TNT. In case of a conflict, US has no option but to take out the North Korean nukes and missile sites. This is only possible with the use of lethal force, which includes precision bombs as well as tactical nukes to destroy hardened underground storage facilities.

CONCLUSION The crux is that unlike Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan, a war with North Korean will be a race against time. Giving North Korean a chance to retaliate will result in catastrophe. Traditional warfare methodology with boots on the ground will not be an appropriate option. Keeping this in view, the United States will have to bring in the big weapons from the very beginning including possible use of tactical nukes. The war will be swift and will be fought at lightning pace. The US cache of tactical nukes has the potential to shorten the war like what happened in World War 2. The B61 nuke is one of the weapons that can play a major role. The B61 is a variable yield, kiloton-range weapon. Tactical versions can be set to 0.3, 1.5, 5, 10, 45, 60, 80, or 170 kiloton explosive yield and the strategic version has a yield of 340 kilotons. Trump’s words, threatening to meet North Korea’s threats with a “fire and fury like the world has never seen” were the starkest warning of a nuclear strike from any U.S. president in modern times. Also Trump in his UN speech said, referring to the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un : “No nation on Earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles. The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.” The tone and language does indicate that th Trump administration is open to using nukes.

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