Oh fuck. North Korea moving missiles now.

[PearliePoo2]

Hang on people!

[PearliePoo2]

1. Satellites detected movement. nt

[PCIntern]

2. Linky? Nt

[PearliePoo2]

3. CNN just led with it.

[JoeStuckInOH]

4. Has there even been confirmation that NK has nukes small enough to be installed on ICBMs?

It's one thing to have Nukes. NK definitely has nukes. They also have ICBMs (in testing phases).

It's entirely another to have a nuclear warhead miniaturized to the point of being able to be carried as a payload on an ICBM.

[ProudLib72]

5. Here is CNN's international correspondent on Twitter

Link to tweet

[Oneironaut]

6. They seem insistent on giving the US a free pass to turning their army into ashes.

Kim Jong Un is either a troll or the biggest dumbass on earth.

[lpbk2713]

7. There doesn't seem to be much point in it.

Not if our eyes in the sky can see every move they make.
But Kim is always full of little surprises like this.

[FLPanhandle]

8. North Korea must feel like they aren't getting enough attention after Charlottesville

They always pull stunts like this to get attention with the end game of a UN negotiation giving them aid/food.

Everyone should just ignore them.

[maryellen99]

9. You all know the Russians are helping them right?

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-ukraine-factory.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

[NightWatcher]

10. Kim has got to understand that we are ruled by a nut

we will vaporize him. Kim's "legacy" is that he will be amongst the several million killed in the worst catastrophe in the history of the world.

[EX500rider]

14. Several million comes no where near the worst catastrophe in history.

WWII had around 60 million dead, which was about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion).
That would be around 225 million of our current 7.5 billion.

[rainbow4321]

11. Did drumf head back to D.C. to hide in a bunker?

Just read how he just returned early to D.C. "from his vacation".
You know damn well he didn't return because of the Nazi terrorist attack...

Doubt there are nuke bunkers at the golf resort. Have all the Trump klan returned/arrived in DC?

[Flaleftist]

13. I don't think any bunker can withstand a direct hit.

From what I have read, they have not demonstrated the ability to successfully hit the US with an ICBM, anyway. If they could, the safest place would probably be in the sky on AF One.

[EX500rider]

15. Cheyenne Mountain Complex most likely could...

....the complex was built under 2,000 feet of granite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Mountain_Complex

[Saboburns]

12. I am a nuclear bomb ICBM geek

First, there is no proof that NK can shrink a nuke to fit it on a missile. This is something that took the US 12 years to achieve using the smartest people on the planet and hundreeds of millions of dollars to achieve. And dozens of nuclear tests.

Secondly, there is no proof that they have got a re-entry vehicle for a nuclear bomb. This also took 10 years, the smartest people on earth, hundreds of millions of dollars, and dozens of re-entry missile tests. Re-entry ain't easy, in fact it is very, very difficult. No suitable re-entry vehicle, no boom at the end.

NK is not going to launch a nuclear missile anywhere. It would gaurentee, guarentee their destruction.

If you want to worry, worry about NK's thousands of good old fashioned artillery pieces that have been lined up along the DMZ for 60 years. Now those can reach 20 million South Koreans with just a pull of a lanyard.

[EX500rider]

16. If the Pakistani's figured it out, I think the N Korean's will too.

They did set off their 1st nuke 11 years ago. But you are right a untested nose cone/re-entry vehicle will be iffy.

[Saboburns]

17. Actually the Pakistani's don't have ICBMs

Pakistan has nuclear bombs yes. But like NK they do NOT have the capability to launch one atop a very powerful rocket.

India does have that capability.

The only nations who have nuclear ICBMs are US, Russia, France, Israel, India, and China. Its harder than you think to launch a large payload into space, fly it halfway around the world, re-enter into the atmosphere without coming apart ala Columbia, and have it land where you want it to.

Not even Great Britain has these weapons, they use US ICBMs and SLBMs (Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles).

Not to mention the difference in orders of magnitude between smallish fission weapons like NK has, and thermonuclear bombs.

Its all just bluster. The US has 6,000 thermonuclear weapons we can land on any part of the Earth's surface in 40 minutes. And the only way the US would launch one is if somebody launched one first.

NK has the capability to kill a lot of people in South Korea very, very quickly. But it won't be by using nuclear weapons. It will be with 155mm artillery pieces that can reach into Seoul right now.

[EX500rider]

18. The Pakistani's have some of theirs on IRBM's, that still requires a small warhead.

As of 2011, Pakistan possesses a wide variety of nuclear capable medium range ballistic missiles with ranges up to 2500 km.[182] Pakistan also possesses nuclear tipped Babur cruise missiles with ranges up to 700 km. In April 2012, Pakistan launched a Hatf-4 Shaheen-1A, said to be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead designed to evade missile-defense systems.[183] The Babur cruise missile range can also be extended to 1000 km or more. These land-based missiles are controlled by Army Strategic Forces Command of Pakistan Army.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#Infrastructure

[Saboburns]

19. Yeah

IRBMs don't actually reach space altitude so no re-entry vehicle needed. If NK is dtermined to strike something with a nuke they can put it on a bomber and fly it there.

To be classified as an ICBM it needs to travel at least 5,500 miles.