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Consider the following scenario: Kim "Porky Pig" Jong Un builds up this nuclear arsenal, getting everybody real worried. The west begs him on bended knee "Please stop! Just stoppit!", like a whimpering bitch. Now Kim has to know that if he actually nukes anyone, he's gonna get cooled off with extreme prejudice. Even if he doesn't know, his generals do, and they likely don't wanna be reduced to a cloud of flying bones. (Also, I think China is gonna have a plan B in the form of one or several (or most) of the generals in their pay- six feet from this shameless glutton at all times- with orders to clock him out with a 9 milli to the sconce if he actually tries to push the button.) So then- Kim Jong Un builds up this lunacy to a fever pitch, playing to the media, who greatly amplify the tension, and then suddenly announces to world+dog, "I'm so solly, I'm gonna give up arr the nukes right now. I am a man of peace. I have come to my senses" The result? Everybody unclenches,and a grateful world drowns him in money ( still much cheaper than a war), food, cheese and cognac, paves the streets of Pyongang with gold, he gets the Nobel Peace Prize, and is a hero. And all those starving people finally get fed. ... I tells yah, it fits like a glove. It's his obvious escape route. I mean, this whole thing seems like a badly written movie. Kim is like a Hollywood parody of a screwball egotistical rear end in a top hat. He can't possibly be real. It's basically a ransom scam. Unless he is actually a nutcase, in which case Plan B, and his successor gets the Peace Prize and does the talk show circuit. E: Now that I think about it, Fatass has been the author of so very much carnage and misery that he is quite unlikely to die a natural death, and sure and he knows it. Looks like Plan B after all. He's got worse press than Hitler at this point. zimboe fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Sep 10, 2016 |
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I am sure China has penetrated his security and government. They are not going to allow some guy to play with nukes on their southern border without some kind of emergency kill switch, as it were. Strategic considerations require they have control over any nukes that close to the homeland. They are fools if they don't, and the Chinese aren't fools.
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North Korea is a metaphorical flaming sack of dogshit left on China's front porch. China's just gonna let it burn rather than get geopolitical poo poo all over their shoes. That is, whoever takes down Nork will be left with the lovely task and cost of repairing the nation and it's people- and the people are as ruined as anyone on earth. Only Pol Pot's Cambodia is comparable i modern times, I think. It will take generations for the demos to heal. (These are known as the "Flaming Sack" and the "You break it, You buy it" metaphors, respectively.) ... Much cheaper to just wait for Kim to have his heart attack or "catch a cold" (in the Russian sense) then proceed as in the OP. E: Pardon the silly language but this is a Zimboe thread after all. Don't wanna dissapoint ya, chums zimboe fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Sep 12, 2016 |
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Hopefully Darpa has a few toys in the attic special-built for certain scenarios For instance: There's been a lot of interesting work recently with fiber lasers. The 100kw lasers they have already were made simply by coherently combining the outputs of many regular commercial-off-the-shelf fiber laser heads used in laser cutters. 3 upto 10 kW each. (Note: a major manufacturer of these is called Trumpf.)They can cut 1 1/2 carbon steel quite nicely and sheet metal at many feet per second. Link: http://www.us.trumpf.com/en/products/machine-tools/products/2d-laser-cutting/laser-cutting-machines/trulaser-5030-5040-5060.html The beam directing optics already exist. The lasers exist. Vastly better than that ridiculously complex oxygen-iodine chemical laser that filled an entire 747. Five megawatts, though. Small enough for a drone, maybe. ... Maybe one day Kim will go outside and get a really sudden case of Pink Steam Explosion Syndrome. Or it may just explosively ablate the top few centimeters of flesh facing the beam. Like maybe the top of his skull. zimboe fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Sep 12, 2016 |
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Shbobdb posted:Both China and South Korea are actively propping up North Korea because neither one of them wants to deal with the refugee and humanitarian crisis that will happen when the regime finally falls. Right now, it is better for all parties involved to keep the horrific humanitarian crisis contained to a (semi) stabilized North Korea. Exactly. You break it, you buy it.
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Ratoslov posted:Why the gently caress would they do that? If you're gonna assassinate a head of state through a drone, why bother using a weird experimental weapon instead of something off-the-shelf and reliable, like a missile? Mainly for burning his birds but still- just for the kicks of frying this greasy-chinned glutton where he stands would scare the poo poo outta these guys. they wouldn't dare go outside ever again. There's such a thing as Force with Style, yah know. And the precision of picking out just one guy in a crowd instead of blowing up everything. Precision is its own reward. It's ... The fiber laser is an amazingly elegant piece of solid state optical technology. It's like something from the future that fell through a wormhole opening 30 years from now. I's gonna be a disruptor. megawatt CW power ought to be doable. It's tunable too. I know this is true, I was a laser jock back in the 80's and 90's. I worked for Ortel, who invented the first erbium-doped fiber laser and fiber amplifier for cable TV repeaters, and Quantum Radiation Corporation (Quantrad) where in my lab the first argon-ion laser was built in 1967, and Xerox EOS, where we built the first laser copiers. And we had an early ion drive in a big vacuum vessel in the High Bay that had been life testing for three years. You could look through the window and see that gorgeous Xenon blue exhaust. zimboe fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Sep 12, 2016 |
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