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Re: N. Korea rocket crashes after 1 minute |
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Posted by WillD on Fri Apr 13 00:46:17 2012, in response to Re: N. Korea rocket crashes after 1 minute, posted by Train Dude on Fri Apr 13 00:28:00 2012. Eh? All I noted is that it's hypocritical for us to laugh at their efforts without considering what it took to get to this point. I realize you're perfectly comfortable with being a hypocrite, but the rest of us may not wish to be quite so foolish.In any event, if you'd read what I wrote you'd have realized that it will be virtually impossible for North Korea to field an ICBM with their program is it stands today. Short of importing know-how, the only way to increase reliability is to increase the flight rate. With their military budget already occupying an unsustainably large portion of their GDP they quite literally cannot afford to increase their flight rate. So they're doomed to test an increasingly complex weapons system at intervals measured in years, from which they will likely learn next to nothing. It's an interesting diplomatic game we've played with them for decades. If they hadn't focused on the US they could have fielded perhaps a few dozen nuclear tipped Scud derivatives which could have posed a legitimate threat to South Korea, Japan, and China's economic well-being. But by having them focus on the US as their primary threat we've forced their strategic thinking toward an ICBM which they have virtually no chance of fielding. |
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