North Korea's Air Force and The Bomb

All 36 airports should have the runways destroyed.
All power plants and switching stations that send power to
their nuclear factories should be bombed, you can't produce
nuke fuel without electricity.
All naval vessels in their harbors should be sunk.
All military depots, ammo dumps and warehouses should be
bombed.


On the second day we can offer the Iranians a deal.




"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ps.com...
| Since I'm tired of reading questions about the development
of
| anti-matter-powered Beechcraft ejection seats, I thought
I'd toss this
| topic onto the newsgroup's platter: North Korea.
|
| In pondering why we (the US -- and the World) haven't
responded more
| forcefully to the North Korean nuclear tests, which seem
to confirm our
| greatest fears, I found the following tid-bits of
information:
|
| - That tiny country (smaller than the state of
Mississippi) has an air
| force comprised of 1,620 combat aircraft, and 274
helicopters!
| - They've got over 8,800 anti-aircraft guns
| - They're fielding a 1,000,000-man military force, with a
population of
| just 23 million
| - They have just 36 paved-runway airports
| - Their GDP is just $40 billion per year -- far less than
Bill Gates is
| worth, personally.
| - Some of their planes are stationed just 6 minutes'
flight from Seoul
|
| Their pilot training is apparently abyssmal, thanks to
fuel and spare
| parts shortages. (One estimate shows that their pilots
are flying just
| 7 hours per YEAR.) However, they have fielded an
incredible fighting
| force, at the expense of virtually all else. They have
suffered 11
| straight years of food shortages, and are able to feed
themselves only
| because of outside aid -- yet they persist in developing
incredibly
| expensive weapons systems, like missiles and atomic bombs.
|
| In short, these folks are truly, really scary. I honestly
didn't think
| much of them, until recently, but I now fully understand
their "axis of
| evil" designation -- and why we're hesitating to react.
|
| Here are some decent sources of more information:
|
|
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...k/airforce.htm
| https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications...k/geos/kn.html
|
| So what should we do? Nothing? That seems to be the
United Nation's
| current "strategy"...but I don't see much hope in that
approach.
| --
| Jay Honeck
| Iowa City, IA
| Pathfinder N56993
| www.AlexisParkInn.com
| "Your Aviation Destination"
|