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"
|

"Matt Whiting" wrote:


I think pre-emptively attacking Iran has proven to be a huge mistake and I
believe that North Korea would love nothing more than to sucker us into
something similar there. The folks that have a dog in this fight are
China, South Korea, Japan, etc. Let them police this one.



Amen.

--
Dan

"Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife
that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a
whale."
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:56:58 -0700, "NW_Pilot"
wrote:

I will not believe anything the news media and government tells me about how
bad another country is untill I see it for myself. The U.S. government said
Beirut Lebanon is a bad place and that the "Muslims" all want to kill all
Americans hahahahaha...

You must have been hallucinating. Nobody in the government said anything
of the sort. In fact your President has gone out of his way to praise
Islam as a peaceful religion, which it most certainly is not.


But what do I know!!! I just keep my eyes open look, I wonder and I think
for Myself.

You also make **** up.




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Lots of aerial photographs of British Columbia at:
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On Oct 15, 7:23 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
So what should we do? Nothing?

Nuke 'em... Awh, **** it, nuke all those ****in' communists and
socialists... After nuking North Korea, declare plural marriages legal
over there and next thing you know, it will be repopulated by
Mormons...



--
Hmmm... Let's see... Does anyone feel left out in my insults? I can
try to be more inclusive next time...

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:27:51 GMT, Matt Whiting wrote:

I think pre-emptively attacking Iran has proven to be a huge mistake and
I believe that North Korea would love nothing more than to sucker us
into something similar there. The folks that have a dog in this fight
are China, South Korea, Japan, etc. Let them police this one.


I'm not too worried about North Korea. You can trust atheists to not
want to die, even if they are somewhat unhinged. Iran is another story.
Their fundamental belief system says that life is meaningless and
anything that happens is the will of god. I think they will be far more
dangerous once they have nuclear weapons.





randall g =%^) PPASEL+Night 1974 Cardinal RG
http://www.telemark.net/randallg
Lots of aerial photographs of British Columbia at:
http://www.telemark.net/randallg/photos.htm
Vancouver's famous Kat Kam: http://www.katkam.ca

Jay Honeck wrote:

In pondering why we (the US -- and the World) haven't responded more
forcefully to the North Korean nuclear tests,

in the whole story there are two things that keeps me thinking:

on the one hand, we have the gvt of North Korea who has
every motivation of bluffing the test (easy: big conventional
explosives, and then vent some radioactive material); their
whole nation is bankrupt and they need that kind of attention
both domestically -- great propaganda -- and internationally
(considering the aggressive US foreign policies, I am surprised
that Lichtenstein hasn't started testing nukes yet); on the
other hand we have our gvt who has every reason -- regardless
of the facts -- of pretending to believe the bluff because this
is something scary -- and fear has proved to be an excellent
political tool -- happening with perfect timing (right before
the elections and at an embarrassing time for the party in
power) is the best thing that could happen to them.

May be the rest of the world knows something we don't (twouldn't
be the first time, would it?)

--Sylvain

The best thing about President H. Clinton
is that only a Democrat will get any cooperation from the rest of the
world.

I haven't checked lately, but I think Hillary skews more negative with
most voters than even Bush did at his lowest point.

It seems you either love her or hate her.

So enjoy your flying while it is still possible (ie we have both the
healthy economy and freedom of action necessary to support it). It is
only in the Anglosphere that private pilots like me can fly at will
(without being stinking rich). I hope this state of affairs will last a
few more years yet, but eventually our enemies will set off some nukes
and put the world into a severe depression.

This is why I'm surprised that we've done nothing -- this is a "clear
and present danger" and should be dealt with in some way.

It's why I'm even MORE surprised that China has done nothing. An apt
parallel would be for us to imagine a nuclear-armed Cuba or Mexico --
and I can't imagine we would sit still for that now any more than we
did in 1962.

I wonder what China is *really* doing right now?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

When did we attack Iran?
Attacking Iraq got Libya to surrender several ship loads of
nuke weapons materials to the USA. It is better to strike
preemptively than to wait till they can put up a "fair
fight" the object is victory and not stalemate.



"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...
|
| "Matt Whiting" wrote:
|
|
| I think pre-emptively attacking Iran has proven to be a
huge mistake and I
| believe that North Korea would love nothing more than to
sucker us into
| something similar there. The folks that have a dog in
this fight are
| China, South Korea, Japan, etc. Let them police this
one.
|
|
|
| Amen.
|
| --
| Dan
|
| "Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told
his wife
| that he was three days late because he had been swallowed
by a
| whale."
| -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
|
|

Matt Whiting wrote:
snip

I think pre-emptively attacking Iran

We attacked Iran? Granted, I haven't watched TV for a few days,but....

Jay Honeck wrote:

This is why I'm surprised that we've done nothing -- this is a "clear
and present danger" and should be dealt with in some way.

you can cry wolf only so many times...

--Sylvain