Business Insider: North Korea's new ICBM looks and works an awful lot like a Russian ICBM, experts say
* North Korea tested its new Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile last month.
* The new IBCM uses "solid-fueled" technology, elevating the threat posed by North Korea.
* Experts say that Russia likely provided the technology to make it happen.
North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile is its most threatening yet, and it likely has Russia to thank, experts say.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, DC-based international affairs thinktank, said in a recent report that North Korea's July 12 Hwasong-18 ICBM test launch was "likely the result of technical cooperation sourced to Russia."
North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un hosted Russian and Chinese officials in July, showing them its arsenal of missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The North Korean Hwasong-18 ICBM was among them. It is a nuclear-capable missile that the country developed in defiance of the UN's attempt to regulate North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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26 comments:
Nothing wrong with this, Nato can expand their alliance so does Russia.
Precisely
Russia is not expanding their alliance. They were already allies with North Korea going back 7 decades.
Russia is going more all-in with a country that the US is at war with.
In other news a backfire was waxed.
Russian rocket technology takes you straight to the moon. Apparently, right into the moon
4:08. I don't see the problem. They aimed at the moon, launched and hit the moon. They're all good.
On a serious note. helping advance NK's military effectiveness is like The US arming ISIS or Pakistan. At some point there will be a price to pay.
When did the US arm ISIS?
Helping Pakistan was the trade off to getting land access to Afghanistan
Getting to Afghanistan was imperative after the Tollybon (as Obozo like to pronounce it) refused to extradite Osama.
So Russia is helping the most repressive regime on the planet to advance their nuke capability, and is also a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council. Makes perfect sense. Ain't globalism great?
Russia and
china aided N.Korea way back in 1950
4:40
sigh. sorry to upset you but Russia on security council and invaded a sovereign nation. Now check your house and see how many goodies you own via globalism. Why are you helping to advance that which you abhor?
4:27
It has been mentioned several times in the last 6 months on this blog.
You need to read about Operation TIMBER SYCAMORE.
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Either Trump goes to prison or the Bidens. there is no cease fire, truce or burying the hatchet.
Democrats have gone to far and have committed too many crimes.
Very Lame Mr. Nobody. Lame in the extreme.
The CIA did not give weapons to ISIL. Weapons were siphoned off to ISIL by people we armed. Now get on your soap box and give us your holier than thou speech on if an operation is not 100% perfect it should not proceed.
Could it be the problem is not the CIA, but the squeamish politicians? Would they allow the CIA to head shot someone siphoning weapons or would they put them in GITMO for doing it?
There were groups we gave weapons to ISIL, when ISIL leaned on them. What were they going to do? Fight ISIL with 5 to 1 odds against? You wouldn't. You would knuckle under faster than them.
The only time politicians are tough is when Democrats go after Republicans (The Washington Generals).
I will note that the 'operation' started under Obozo (D) and was ended in the 1st 6 months of the Trump presidency.
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Banana Republic
If all you can do to give evidence is badmouth an entire party then you are not going to be believed in what you say.Name names. give evidence. show proof. That is, something that would stand up in a court of law and not simply spouting crap.
The entire party is that bad. I reckon only 5% to 10% are worth saving. The rest have to be booted out of power.
I reckon less than 33% of the Republican party is worth saving.
The proof is boundless and you will quibble for awhile and then you will run like you always do.
First and foremost, the party foisted a memory care patient on the nation. Before that the Joe Biden sold US foreign policy out for 20 or 30 million dollars or more. Instead of admitting fault, the party is circling the wagons around the Bidens. Their latest explanation is that Hunter is a really good consultant and he "earned" that money (Lie #1).
Let's take the Democrat talking points lie at face value. Hunter "earned" that money. so why is he giving so much away to his relatives?
So lets take that at face value. He gave money to his relatives out of the goodness of his heart. He did not pay a gift tax on it. Whenever you give som0oene 12,000 (more nowadays), you are liable to pay a gift tax to the IRS. He did not (lie #1A).
Then there is the Squad. The squad is anti-Semitic and the Democrat caucus does nothing about it.
So there you Russki or should I say village idiot. I can look up the # for security. It abuse to let you aimless wander and twaddle.
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Hunter's lawyers threatened the Feds.
A Democrat president is too big to fail no matter how corrupt. So nothing is done.
Bottom line 643. those weapons went to your Obama "JV" buddies. We supplied them to get rid of Assad. Then those head choppers turned against the USA and took over most of Iraq.
Not the first Neocon / CIA screw up. Won't be the last.
Obama is not a neocon. There is no conservative bone in Obama's body.
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and others would be supplying fundamentalists regardless of the US position. Saudi Arabia could be persuaded to desist, but not while the Left is waging war against MBS and sucking the Ayatollah's nether regions.
Getting rid of Assad is a good thing. He helped kill Americans.
When some weapons were found to be going ISIS that was dialed back before it was ended. If you believe in metaphysics and I do, it is impossible not to have a side reaction in chemistry or politics. What makes a good chemical engineer is they can minimize the side reaction and thus the unwanted chemicals and maximize the needed or wanted chemical.
BUT MR. nOBODY WANTS PERFECTION WHEN EVEN HIMSELF COULD NOT PROVIDE IF HE WERE IN A POSITION OF POWER
No 914. you are not tracking here.....
A. Obama is a neocon, just like nulland and Krystal are..... party affiliation does not matter here.
B. THE SAUDs AND Qataries WERE supplyingTHE HEAD CHOPPERS. Because ASSAD is an Allwite and aligned with Iran.
C. GETTING RID OF ASSAD IS NOT A GOOD THING WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHO THEY WANTED TO INSTALL ....THE HEAD CHOPPERS.
D. Don't get metaphysical on me here. This is not Hegal or KANT, time .....and not that hard to understand.
The US sent those weapons to ISIS , who were under the patronage of Saudi Arabia to get rid of Assad. IT was not a mistake. It was clearly intentional. But their operation went sideways when ISIS started to drive their own game and decided to build a Caliphate.
I cannot believe you are defending Obama and Hillary. and the rest of those neocon dimwits.
You have a great day.
A) Necocon has a specific meaning and applied to a specific group of people.
"Neoconservatism is a political movement that began in the United States during the 1960s among liberal hawks who became disenchanted with the increasingly pacifist foreign policy of the Democratic Party and with the growing New Left and counterculture of the 1960s, particularly the Vietnam protests. Some also began to question their liberal beliefs regarding domestic policies such as the Great Society. Neoconservatives typically advocate the unilateral promotion of democracy and interventionism in international affairs, grounded in a militaristic philosophy of "peace through strength." They are known for espousing disdain for communism and political radicalism"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
Samantha Power advocated for intervention into Libya, which eventually happened and she is by no stretch of the imagination a neocon unless you totally abuse the meaning of words. Power's arguments might not have the only reason Obama decided to smash Gadaffi, but it was trotted out there. To let Samantha Power and her reasoning off the hook does a disservice to debate.
B) The Saudis and others absolutely would be supplying all comers. They are afraid of Iran. the special military operation happened because the West did not take Russia's concerns seriously? If that is true, it is more true that Saudi Arabia's concerns were not taken seriously. Saudi Arabia has hidden the results of its census. One of the reason is because fear of Iran. The Obama administration showed an obtuse lack of concern, when it barged ahead with JCPOA. The people in DC can fool themselves and the American public with the help of the MSM, but they are not fooling the Saudis.
The Saudis can only depended upon from a position of strength. You have to address their concerns and you have to be strong. Obama does not project strength.
C. GETTING RID OF ASSAD IS NOT A GOOD THING WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHO THEY WANTED TO INSTALL ....THE HEAD CHOPPERS.
Gadaffi pointed this out. He was right. Yet this was not a concern of Samantha Power and others. Samantha Power is by no means a neocon and cannot be described as one. Obama's intervention in Libya was described as the opposite of Bush. It was described as "Smart Power" and when it failed, we were not supposed to talk about it or add it to Obama's resume or that of his underlings.
-Syria is a good deal closer to Saudi Arabia than Libya
Syria and Saudi Arabi all but share a border. Except for an arbitrary and lightly populated
Jordanian pan handle they do.
- Being Alawite might be or is a sin in the eyes of the Saudis. But the is not enough of a force to get them over the hump (threshold) and act. Align with and acting with Iran is.
- Part of the reason Saudi Arabia may have acted in Syria is Syria's meddling in Lebanon and frustrating Saudi diplomatic efforts. By itself, it may not be sufficient reason to act. But it does relate to the Greek concept of "Time".
- Saudi Arabia may have acted due to the mass incarceration and torture of Sunni protesters. It might not mean that much to the average westerner, but persecuting co-religionists may have quite an effect on the Saudi street.
D. Agent Orange does not kill. Dioxin which is made in a side reaction and thus pollutes batches of Agent Orange does. A bachelors in chemistry can whip up a batch of agent orange. a chemical engineer can do better an whip up a batch and minimize the dioxin content due to side reactions.
Why mention it? Because patterns you see in one field or realm, you see in another. What is worthy of criticism is not that the spooks acted, but how well they executed or failed to. Lots of operations have blowback. Operation Paperclip had "blowback", but implementing it was better than not implementing it. The Soviets had their own Operation Paperclip called Operation Osoaviakhim, but they and we are not supposed to talk about that.
The Saudis probably had or did have blowback from their support from mujaheddin in the 1980s and their support for groups in Syria after the Arab Spring. The Saudis probably knw this before they "went in". Yet not going in was worse in their considered opinion than going in.
Obama is not a neocon. Neocon describe policies, but more importantly it describes the mass movement of people like a migration. There are other terms that better describe Obama.
Obama is not someone in the Democrat party who feels let down by LBJ's great society or a flaccid American foreign policy.
If Obama feels let down by the Great society, his new actions would be to double down not try a new policy that someone like Reagan would espouse.
This blog really has gone downhill. Just look at the above commentators and their far-flung extremism at play.
Yes
We know the history of neocon ism.
But you fail to see how it has morphed. Example. Krystal, Kagan, Boot and all the others have fled the Republican Party. They were neocons, "new conservatives". Really translated to RHINOs. As soon as the conservatives decided that public adventurism of Bush, Wolferitz and the NEOCONs was BS, the RHINO neocons fled the party.
But enough of this. If you do not see that the Neocons are a sub parasite of the blob, you are blind. these creatures fit well into either party and swim in the swamp of the MIC.
Obama is a neocon, Biden is a Neocon, Hillary is a neocon, McCan was a neocon Nuland is a neocon. They all follow the same path to hell
And thank you for supporting my point. You are correct. Supplying arms to ISIS was an operation in conjunction with the Saudis by the CIA that went south.
You are just repeating what I have already stated.
have a great day
must bomb north korea 2night 10 bombs will fall 478213740237ufewfy01
3 pm
great idea!! Quit screwing around and throw the dice....
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