North Korea launches rocket

MATT DAMON

 

Doctor.

 

Shouldn't that be "Raunches Locket"?

 

I believe "Raunch Rocket" is what Bobby Petrino called his motorcycle.

 

"You only cover us when we're sending rusty cans of soup 150 feet into the air!"

 

Compuserve ...

 

IF it worked, the NK missile would be roughly comparable to the Atlas we launched in 1953.

Yes, if NK had a usable ICBM they could theoretically take out a US city (the intercept rate for our ABM systems is not real good), but if they ever tried it they would never see the missile land -- by the time any NK missile landed in the US there woudn't be anything left of NK, border to border, bigger than a bottle cap.

 

If I'm the Secretary of State (or, in other words, God help us all), this is my response:

 

But enough about what Mr. and Mrs. Clemens do behind closed doors ...

 

And blanket all of South Korea and healthy-sized portions of China and Japan with fallout in the process. We'd anger two allies and a tenuous business partner with a far better nuclear presence than North Korea's. Oh, and Russia has a business interest in North Korea ... and, 20 years after the end of the Cold War, thousands of ICBMs and SLBMs still pointed at us and allied countries.

If we retaliated the way you suggest, I doubt the rest of the world would universally go "well, enough of that nasty business, then"

 

Premature explosions? Whistling sound as pieces fall to earth?

This fellow is wondering what the fuss is all about as he reads from the same company catalog the North Koreans apparently used to buy their rocket parts.

 

1. South Korea wouldn't have shit to say about it. They are among the littlest of all our little brothers. What ever the US does, they will STFU and like it.

2. If NK lobs a nuke at ANYBODY, most likely the first nuke to wipe them off the planet would come from Japan (who has them of course although they'll never admit it).

3. As the two other members of the global superduperpower club, Russia and China are just as committed as the US to the concept that minor nations simply cannot launch identifiable WMD attacks on the big boys without immediate and utterly catastrophic retaliation. If NK nuked out Honolulu or Seattle or LA and nothing was done about it, a month or two later they would be threatening to do the same thing to Shanghai or Vladivostok if they didn't get what they wanted.