S Korea fears nuclear test by N Korea

[beijingwalker]

S Korea fears nuclear test by N Korea
Seoul, Dec 14, 2012,

North Korea will likely conduct a third nuclear test following its successful launch of a long-range rocket in the face of global condemnation, a top South Korean official said on Friday.

“A nuclear test is highly probable, and judging from analysis of intelligence, significant preparations have been made,” Unification Minister Yu Woo-Ik told a parliamentary committee, without elaborating.

“North Korea has a track record of conducting nuclear tests following missile launches whose aim was to develop a delivery system for nuclear warheads,” Yu said. The North’s previous nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 were both carried out within months of long-range rocket launches. Pyongyang insists Wednesday’s launch was a purely scientific mission aimed at placing a polar-orbiting earth observation satellite in space, but most of the world saw it as a disguised ballistic missile test.

The UN Security Council has condemned the latest launch and warned of possible measures over what the US called a “highly provocative” act. Another nuclear test would prompt a much stronger reaction, including from China which is the North’s only major ally and main economic benefactor.

 

[SinoChallenger]

South Koreans always cry to mama. That's why they were ruled by China for 800 years. Japan for 100 and USA for 60 years.

 

[Type 055]

South Koreans always cry to mama. That's why they were ruled by China for 800 years. Japan for 100 and USA for 60 years.

Quoted for truth.

 

[beijingwalker]

N.Korea has the ability to totally destroy and wipe S.Korea off the face of the earth within hours.and that is not an exaggeration.

 

[gambit]

N.Korea has the ability to totally destroy and wipe S.Korea off the face of the earth within hours.and that is not an exaggeration.

No, it is YOUR exaggeration.

 

[beijingwalker]

No, it is YOUR exaggeration.

How North Korean Artillery Could Level Seoul In Two Hours
MAP OF THE DAY: How North Korean Artillery Could Level Seoul In Two Hours - Business Insider

North Korea Flatten Seoul - North Korea’s Weapons Capabilties

When North and South Korea trade artillery rounds, as they did this past Tuesday, killing four and injuring at least 16, some panicked hyperbole is understandable. First, there's the unfortunate geography—the opponents' capitals are just 120 miles apart, with Seoul within 35 miles of the border. The numbers only get worse, with estimates of as many as 13,000 artillery pieces positioned along that border, many of them within range and presumably aimed directly at Seoul, one of the world's most densely-populated cities. Factor in the rate of fire of all those suspected artillery batteries, and throw in the potential launch of hundreds of missiles, and it's easy to conclude that if North Korea is pushed hard enough, the result could be, as the New York Times put it yesterday, "the destruction of Seoul."

The more common term for the potential fate of the South Korean capital, casually dropped on recent radio and television news reports, as well as in two separate AOL news op-eds from earlier this year, is that it would be "flattened." Analysis from Time magazine in 2003 went so far as to gauge how long this would take: "Its conventional artillery capability would allow North Korea to flatten Seoul in the first half-hour of any confrontation."

North Korea Has 70,000 Cannons Targeted at Seoul
Nov 28, 2010 10:17 GMT; Last Modified: Nov 28, 2010 10:31 GMT

As the US South Korean naval exercise begins, North Korea deployed surface to surface missiles in the Yellow Sea, and also moved other missiles further south. The North Koreans have vowed that any trespassing of their borders, through land, air or sea, will meet a strong response.

And even without these latest movements, North Korea has a massive artillery array of 70,000 cannons pointed to Seoul – South Korea’s capital, which is very close to the border. A full utilization of this artillery could destroy Seoul withing hours.

 

[gambit]

How North Korean Artillery Could Level Seoul In Two Hours
MAP OF THE DAY: How North Korean Artillery Could Level Seoul In Two Hours - Business Insider

Seoul is not all of South Korea.

Without a nuclear first strike, the North Korean military will be defeated or at least severely degraded within days of a shooting war. The South Korean military is better trained, equipped, and have much more varied experienced in cooperating with other militaries, of which an alliance is inevitable lead by the US. In air combat, which is pretty much a mano-a-mano affair, the South will decimate the North. For the navies, North Korean ships will be either sunk or trapped by US subs. That leave the mostly starving and physically stunted North Korean land troops to face overwhelming air and sea assaults.

 

[beijingwalker]

Seoul is not all of South Korea.

Without a nuclear first strike, the North Korean military will be defeated or at least severely degraded within days of a shooting war. The South Korean military is better trained, equipped, and have much more varied experienced in cooperating with other militaries, of which an alliance is inevitable lead by the US. In air combat, which is pretty much a mano-a-mano affair, the South will decimate the North. For the navies, North Korean ships will be either sunk or trapped by US subs. That leave the mostly starving and physically stunted North Korean land troops to face overwhelming air and sea assaults.

Seoul is almost like everything of S.Korea,once seoul falls,within hours the whole S.Korea will cease to exist.

 

[gambit]

Seoul is almost like everything of S.Korea,once seoul falls,within hours the whole S.Korea will cease to exist.

This can only come from someone with no military experience. But since you are a conscript reject, it is understandable. In a war, national command structure is decentralized to safeguard the leadership. Buildings and cities can be rebuilt, but not the human intelligence that created and can rebuild those cities. Those people and their knowledge are dispersed in other cities and here is a list of them in South Korea...

List of cities in South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lay off the Party's propaganda. It rots your brain.

 

[Zabaniyah]

Seoul is almost like everything of S.Korea,once seoul falls,within hours the whole S.Korea will cease to exist.

South Korea is not one of those countries where almost all economic development are centered in its capital.

 

[beijingwalker]

This can only come from someone with no military experience. But since you are a conscript reject, it is understandable. In a war, national command structure is decentralized to safeguard the leadership. Buildings and cities can be rebuilt, but not the human intelligence that created and can rebuild those cities. Those people and their knowledge are dispersed in other cities and here is a list of them in South Korea...

List of cities in South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lay off the Party's propaganda. It rots your brain.

that's your understanding of war,not N.Koreans,those people are armed to the teeth and now got their hands on nukes and found the ways to deliver them,and unlike other nuclear players ,this one is so eager to use their nukes and S.Korea is too small to do what you listed above,they simply don't have the time and space.

 

[gambit]

that's your understanding of war,not N.Koreans,those people are armed to the teeth and now got their hands on nukes and found the ways to deliver them,and unlike other nuclear players ,this one is so eager to use their nukes and S.Korea is too small to do what you listed above,they simply don't have the time and space.

And that is why the North Korean military will be defeated. Spectacularly.

 

[beijingwalker]

South Korea is not one of those countries where almost all economic development are centered in its capital.

pretty concentrated cause it is a very small country,half the size of a mid size Chinese province,it can be overrun in a blink of eye if a war breaks out.

And that is why the North Korean military will be defeated. Spectacularly.

they shelled S.Korean island and sank S.Korean submarine,the South dared not to do anything other than crying foul,there is a deep fear among S.Koreans toward the North,that's no denying of it.

 

[gambit]

they shelled S.Korean island and sank S.Korean submarine,the South dared not to do anything other than crying foul,there is a deep fear among S.Koreans toward the North,that's no denying of it.

You confused restraints with fear. I can also argue that since North Korea has nuclear weapons but South Korea continues to exists, it mean North Korea is fearful of being wiped out by an angry South Korea.

 

[beijingwalker]

You confused restraints with fear. I can also argue that since North Korea has nuclear weapons but South Korea continues to exists, it mean North Korea is fearful of being wiped out by an angry South Korea.

I'm not confused,see the title of this report.