With the first successful launch of the Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM) in August 2016 by North Korea, many military analysts felt that this was a prelude to a potential missile strike on the United States mainland. With conventional land-based missile launches, Pyongyang has shown that its capabilities inter-continentally are seriously limited at this time. The submarine-based launches aspect increases its chances significantly.
“The ‘range’ problems [associated with intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)] becomes much less of an issue with submarine-launched ballistic missiles,” Bill [Patalon] explained.
That’s because sub-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMS) require only a quick boost of cold pressure from the vessel’s engines to be flung far out into the ocean.
From there, the missile fires upward to travel the rest of the way toward mainland U.S.A.
Just this morning, news broke that North Korea has sent a missile-laden submarine into the deep water region due east, in the Sea of Japan…
This is significant because North Korean state-controlled media last month issued a statement that it could now effectively strike Alaska with these missiles, meaning an all-out declaration of war against the United States of America, and possibly leading to a very dramatic end to Kim Jong-un’s god-regime.
With China not quite ready to dive in militarily to attempt an intervention with North Korea, Kim Jong-un’s provocative posturing may just lead to his personal extinction from power. Although Russia has stood firm with them economically in many respects, it is equally clear that Putin is not happy with Pyongyang’s launching of missiles in its direction as well.
The United States has stepped up its game now against the North Korean dictator and any nations that would stand in its defense by sending out the first salvo of security announcements to U.S. citizens who remain in North Korea.
China-based Young Pioneer Tours, which had taken Warmbier to North Korea, and Koryo Tours said the ban will come into force on July 27 – the anniversary of the end of the Korean War – with a 30-day grace period. Koryo Tours added that the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang, which handles consular affairs for the United States in the North, informed it of the ban, but did not say how long it would last. The U.S. embassy in the South Korean capital, Seoul, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Rowan Beard said that the 30-day grace period would “give leeway for any [Americans] currently in the country as tourists or on humanitarian work”. Simon Cockerill, of Koryo Tours, said: “It remains to be seen what the exact text is, but the indication is it’s just a straight up ban on Americans going.” Mr Cockerill told the BBC the agency would still conduct tours and take Americans until the ban came into effect.
Additionally, Rowan Beard of Young Pioneer Tours, told the BBC the embassy was urging all US nationals to depart immediately. He said the embassy was trying to check on the number of US tourists left in the country.
If the United States Embassy is “urging all US nationals to depart immediately,” this is significant language that has historically been used as a prelude to open war. The fact that it’s being issued shortly after the initiation of the placement of the THAAD missile defense system in both Alaska and South Korea, and with the news that they have sent a submarine laden with missiles into the sea, it’s pretty clear that the U.S. believes something significant is about to occur.
Are we on the cusp of war with North Korea? That all depends on what a naïve and highly unhinged dictator believes his nation is capable of and how long it will be before his ambitions pushes him to the insane decision to use a nuclear warhead. I hope we don’t see that day.
Source: Zero Hedge / Money Morning
Put him in it
War with North Korea will last 10 minutes.
Why ever go there? Otto paid a heavy price!
NK is the perfect excuse for a staged crisis on our soil.