What's going on in Rocketman territory?

[EndtheMadnessNow]

“North Korea is not sending signals it is open to diplomacy, but waiting for it to do so is a serious mistake.”

It’s been a busy 2022 for North Korea. After a record-setting spate of missile launches in the first month of the year, things quieted down during the Beijing Winter Olympics. Then North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the first such test in five years. Satellite imagery has analysts concerned that a nuclear test is on the way as well, which would bring the Korean Peninsula back to the bad old days of “fire and fury” seen in 2017.

Furthermore, the increasing emphasis on an evolving nuclear doctrine is partially in response to some of the harsher rhetoric coming out of Seoul these days, from the incoming Yoon administration. It also serves as a sort of reassurance that, because of its nuclear weapons, North Korea will not suffer the kind of invasion Ukraine is experiencing now or the fate of other non-nuclear armed states against nuclear armed adversaries in the past.

The Diplomat

What's up with her message (underlined) here. Seems like a soft jab to UKR giving up it's nukes at the arm twisting of the West.

North Korea’s Next Nuclear Test: How Big Could It Be? (38 North, April 29, 2022)

As North Korea continues to excavate a new portal (entrance) approximately 50 meters east of the original (now demolished) South Portal, there is wide speculation that North Korea could conduct a nuclear test soon. Based on the terrain, geology, topography, and suspected tunnel schematics, the two drifts at this southern tunnel complex are estimated to be capable of containing explosions around 50 to 120 kilotons, respectively.

Certainly, yield limit estimates do not mean the North Koreans will test to the maximum available capacity or tell us what specifically they may be planning to do next. But it does indicate that this tunnel complex, as depicted in the North Korean schematic map, is incapable of containing explosions the size of the 2017 test. Nonetheless, if Kim Jong Un is working to fully weaponize and proof test North Korea’s tactical nuclear warheads or other battlefield weapons, reaccessing and restoring the depicted tunnels to working conditions would likely be more than sufficient.

More details with maps at the link.

All someone has to do is take a few of those American made weapons in Ukraine and toss them over the N. Korea border. Shit would go hot real fast.


Dunno who runs this account, but it's amusing...






@DPRK News Service

...And grim.


https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/152...6870274048