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OnlinePoker

(5,720 posts)
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 10:44 PM Aug 2017

Missile alarm: US satellites observe North Korea moving missiles into position, Mattis warns high al

Source: news.com.au

KIM Jong-un may have hidden a secret message to the United States in his blustering boast that he is now ready to lob missiles at Guam. But can President Trump understand it?

This morning North Korean media stated the president had been briefed by his Missile Command on completed plans to test launch missiles and ‘bracket’ the US Pacific territory of Guam.

But Kim stated he would watch the “foolish and stupid conduct of the Yankees” a little more before deciding whether to give an order for the missile test.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/missile-alarm-us-satellites-observe-north-korea-moving-missiles-into-position-mattis-warns-of-high-alert/news-story/ff9e0926f948b56c660b718e949993fa



They did say they would launch on Tuesday and it is Tuesday now.
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Missile alarm: US satellites observe North Korea moving missiles into position, Mattis warns high al (Original Post) OnlinePoker Aug 2017 OP
Kim Jong Un may be an idiot bearsfootball516 Aug 2017 #1
He may think that he can test missiles by firing into international waters lapfog_1 Aug 2017 #2
"But one has to wonder if their navigational control is all that good. " Still In Wisconsin Aug 2017 #6
There are plenty of directions to point a missile that are not Guam if you are not attacking Not Ruth Aug 2017 #7
Depending on Trump's intelligence is a fool's errand n/m bagelsforbreakfast Aug 2017 #3
Ah, Fuck! Catmusicfan Aug 2017 #4
Hopefully kim isn't that stupid. SweetieD Aug 2017 #5

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)
1. Kim Jong Un may be an idiot
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 10:47 PM
Aug 2017

But he can't be stupid enough to actually shoot something at the US. He knows that in an actual war, he would be reduced to dust.

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)
2. He may think that he can test missiles by firing into international waters
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 10:51 PM
Aug 2017

around Guam.... much as he has tested them in the past into the Sea of Japan.

But one has to wonder if their navigational control is all that good.

And if there would be test warheads (conventional).

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
6. "But one has to wonder if their navigational control is all that good. "
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 12:06 AM
Aug 2017

Actually, from what I have read one does not have to wonder. Navigational control of NK missiles seems to vary somewhere between poor and non-existent. Just what I've read.

 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
7. There are plenty of directions to point a missile that are not Guam if you are not attacking
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 12:59 AM
Aug 2017

Bracketing Guam is an attack.

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