10-7-17

A top CIA official for the Korean Peninsula warned Wednesday that the U.S. should be ready for a new provocation by North Korea on Columbus Day on Oct. 9, which coincides with the anniversary of the founding of the political party that governs in Pyongyang.

“Stand by your phones,” Yong Suk Lee, deputy assistant director of the CIA’s Korea Mission Center, said while speaking at a conference organized by the agency at The George Washington University.

Lee did not speculate what North Korea might do, though it frequently carries out missile launches or nuclear tests on major state anniversaries, such as the birthday of leader Kim Jong Un or other dates associated with the lives of his father or grandfather.

As this situation escalates, Defense Updates looks at a NON-NUCLEAR OPTION THAT U.S HAS WHICH CAN SWIFTLY BRING NORTH KOREAN MILITARY TO IT KNEES. 

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MOAB:NON-NUCLEAR OPTION THAT CAN SWIFTLY BRING NORTH KOREAN MILITARY TO ITS KNEES

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North Korea Preparing for Long-range Missile Test, Russian Lawmaker Says

North Korea will soon test another intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the United States, according to a Russian lawmaker who returned Friday from a four-day visit to the reclusive country. James Valles reports.

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US focus on N. Korea in line w/ wider Pacific strategy

The US has nearly 800 military bases spread across more than 70 countries. At the end of the Cold War, Neo-Cons in the Pentagon drew up a new global strategy, the “pivot to the Pacific.” But US officials are still sketchy on the details of how to implement this plan. RT America’s Joseph Ricci has more.

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What Is Trump’s “Calm Before The Storm”?

Donald Trump now says “We’re in the calm before the storm?” what could he be talking about?

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NUCLEAR FALLOUT The US, Russia, China, and other countries have set off more than 2,000 nuclear test blasts since 1945.

INCEPTION: It is nick named Mother Of All Bombs. MOAB actually stands for Massive Ordnance Air Blast. The bomb is officially known as a GBU-43B. The GBU-43B is the largest non-nuclear bomb is US arsenal. The basic operational concept of MOAB bears some similarity to the BLU-82 Daisy Cutter, which was used to clear heavily wooded areas in the Vietnam War. Decades later, the BLU-82 was used in Afghanistan in November 2001 against the Taliban. Its success as a weapon of intimidation led to the decision to develop the MOAB. It was designed by Albert L Weimorts Jr, in the Air Force Research Laboratory in 2003. The bomb was primarily developed as part of Iraq War’s ‘Shock and Awe’ strategy. MOAB was first tested on 11 March 2003, on Range 70 located at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. It was tested again on 21 November 2003. On 13 April 2017, a MOAB was dropped on an ISIL-Khorasan cave complex in Achin District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. It was the first operational use of the bomb

WORKING: MOAB is thermobaric weapon. A thermobaric weapon utilizes oxygen from the surrounding air to generate an intense, high-temperature explosion. The blast wave typically produced by such a weapon is of a significantly longer duration and more powerful, than that produced by a conventional condensed explosive. The MOAB is designed to hit targets such as surface facilities, tunnel entrances and troop concentrations. MOABs are delivered from C-130 cargo planes, inside which they are carried on cradles resting on airdrop platforms It is pushed out of the rear of the aircraft it’s launched from and uses GPS to guide it. It is purposely slowed down by a parachute. Shortly after launch, the drogues are released and bombs fall unretarded. The bomb explodes in the air, creating air pressure that can make tunnels and other structures collapse.

POWER: The bomb weights at about 21,500 pounds, which translates to about 9,500 kg. For comparison, 9500 kg is what 2 full-grown African Elephants weigh, roughly. Since it is so large, it has to be dropped from rear of cargo plane. The MOAB, has a light 2,900 pounds aluminum casing surrounding 18,600 pounds (8,500 kg) of explosive composition H-6 material. The blast yield is equivalent to 11 tons TNT. It is designed to explode 6 feet above ground and has enough power to obliterate anything in 1000 m radius. For comparison, Hiroshima’s “Little Boy” bomb had a yield of 13-18 kilo tons whereas Nagasaki’s “Fat Man” bomb had a yield of 20–22 kilo tons of TNT. Compared to nukes of today, even the smallest of the US military’s atomic arsenal, the B-61 at its minimum configuration, has an explosive yield roughly 30 times that of the MOAB.

COST: According to experts, MOAB costs around $16 million per unit. So far the U.S. military has spent $314 million on the production of these. USA has 14 of these ready of use anytime. Since the bomb is based on relatively modest technological concept, a large number of these can be quickly manufactured.

CONCLUSION Kim Jong Un’s media machine reported this week that 4.7 million people offered to enlist in the North Korean armed forces in the days after President Donald Trump promised to “totally destroy” the rogue state—and the new recruits would more than quadruple the size of the nation’s already mammoth military. With 1.1 million people in the armed forces, North Korea already has the fourth-largest military in the world. But nukes tend to have long-term environment impact, which may result in them not being a favored option. In this scenario, MOAB could be a viable option for the US military planners.

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