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On February 10 2016 09:34 micronesia wrote:
Artillery is not guided... it is just a projectile like a golf ball. Ballistic missiles are only guided during a short period of time during their flight. Guided missiles are aerodynamically controlled for their entire flight.
there is gps guided artillery
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On February 17 2016 20:31 ImFromPortugal wrote:Show nested quote +On February 10 2016 09:34 micronesia wrote:
Artillery is not guided... it is just a projectile like a golf ball. Ballistic missiles are only guided during a short period of time during their flight. Guided missiles are aerodynamically controlled for their entire flight. there is gps guided artillery
source and they're a quarter million dollars a shell... wow war wastes a lot of money... each shell is a new ferarri..
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United States24761 Posts
You can add gps to anything. GPS is hardly a functional requirement for artillary, but I'll admit they can be combined.
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Wow, this is very... very strange.
Basically a student from the states gets sentenced to 15 years of "hard labour" in North Korea after he took down a political propaganda from his Hotel. He says he was manipulated into doing so but the story is worth taking a look. It's not clear to me how or why this happened exactly. N.K. mentions the CIA a University and other parties are involved in the actions of this student but these parties have denied any association with his acts.
What. is. going. on? Did this dude just mess up really bad or is there something else behind this ?
CNN source.
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United States24761 Posts
On March 17 2016 09:44 Paybacktime wrote:
N.K. mentions...
Trusting anything that NK says is probably a mistake. There is very little I can't say I wouldn't put past NK at this point.
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A few factors are probably true about it:
-He messed up
-He's a 21 year old and was forced or coerced into thinking admitting/apologizing would resolve his personal situation
-The DPRK is exploiting what happened because they never miss a chance to create an international incident
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Who would even go to north korea. Its so dangerous, I wouldn't trust their officials leaders not to think I'm a secret spy or what not, and then sentence ME to the gulag. Feel sorry for the person, but I do wonder what made them think this trip was worth it.
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On March 17 2016 10:26 radscorpion9 wrote:
Who would even go to north korea.
Dennis Rodman would. 
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On March 17 2016 10:26 radscorpion9 wrote:
Who would even go to north korea. Its so dangerous, I wouldn't trust their officials leaders not to think I'm a secret spy or what not, and then sentence ME to the gulag. Feel sorry for the person, but I do wonder what made them think this trip was worth it.
A friend of mine has been there and I've seen a few school organized tours before too. I think for the most part it is safe to go as long as you make liberal use of common sense, but by virtue of the nature of the country you never know what can happen.
Whether or not you actually want to go and financially support the government with your tour money is a different story though.
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That would hardly be a world war.
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I find it continually amazing that an entire country is led by someone with the emotional maturity of a baby
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Remember when missiles were guided by pigeons sitting in the front inside the warhead? Me neither.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would not use nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is infringed by others with nuclear arms, in a speech broadcast on Sunday, and set a five-year plan to boost the secretive state's moribund economy.
The North "will faithfully fulfil its obligation for non-proliferation and strive for global denuclearization", Kim said on Saturday at the rare congress of the ruling Workers' Party, although the speech only aired on Sunday on state television.
Pyongyang was also willing to normalize ties with states that had been hostile towards it, Kim said.
Isolated North Korea has made similar statements in the past, although it has also frequently threatened to attack the United States and South Korea, and has defied United Nations resolutions in its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
The first party congress in 36 years began on Friday amid anticipation by the South Korean government and experts that the young third-generation leader would use it to further consolidate power. Kim became leader in 2011 after his father's sudden death.
North Korea's economy is squeezed by U.N. sanctions that were tightened in March following its latest nuclear test, and Kim's five-year plan to boost economic growth emphasized the need to improve North Korea's electricity supply and develop domestic sources of energy, including nuclear power.
He laid out the blueprint in an address highlighting his "Byongjin" policy of jointly pushing forward economic development and nuclear armament.
On Sunday morning, foreign journalists were told to dress presentably and were brought to the People's Palace of Culture, where dozens of black Mercedes-Benz sedans, with the 727 number plates reserved for top government officials, were parked.
However, after a one-hour wait in a lobby outside large wooden doors with frosted glass, the journalists were taken back to their hotel without having met any officials.
While the North Korean capital has been tidied-up as part of a 70-day campaign of intensified labor ahead of the congress, the 128 members of the foreign media issued visas to cover the event had yet to be granted access to the proceedings as of Sunday afternoon.
www.reuters.com
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Why would they call China an enemy? Isnt China the only thing that keeps them alive?
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China has been much less friendly to North Korea in the past few years than before. Has a lot to do with their provocative attacks in the recent past.
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It appears that North Korea has successfully tested it's most powerful nuclear weapon yet. The U.S. Geological Survey said it detected a magnitude 5.3 quake in the vicinity of DPRK's previous test sites, later saying it was an explosion. It's estimated to be around 10 megatons, slightly less than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The North Koreans are claiming that they have miniaturized the technology to fit on a missile.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/08/asia/north-korea-seismic-activity/
I have to say I find this very alarming. If they were to fire off a nuke even into the ocean they could start one hell of a war.
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Zurich15364 Posts
Kilo, not mega
Korea setting off a 10 megaton device would be felt around the world, almost literally ...
Personally I think all the alarmist talk is waaaaay to early. Seems like everyone is just assuming that the NKs can now deliver a nuke by missile without much evidence at all.
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I think the problem is that their technology sure as hell isn't going to get worse as time passes. And sooner or later something needs to be done about NK.
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