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    South Korea Threatens to Wipe the North's Capital Off the Map

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    South Korea Threatens to Wipe the North's Capital Off the Map

    Seoul threatens a massive conventional attack if a nuclear launch is imminent.

    Sep 12, 2016 13 hours ago



    South Korea has a plan to "wipe a certain section of Pyongyang completely off the map" in case it decides that North Korea were about to launch a nuclear strike on South. The attack would be designed to rupture the country's nuclear command and control systems, preventing the launch from being authorized.

    The attack plan, known as "Korea Massive Punishment & Retaliation", would target North Korean leader Kim Jong un and his military leadership in the capital of Pyongyang. The famously authoritarian nature of the regime, in which all decisions are made at the top, makes it at least theoretically possible a launch process could be interrupted by killing or incapacitating Kim and his generals. The plan was revealed yesterday by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency after the North tested its fifth nuclear weapon since 2006.

    Here's a video showing tests and launches of the Hyunmoo-2 and Hyunmoo-3 missiles:


    Not too long ago, North Korea's nuclear arsenal was seen as primitive, probably unable to mount a warhead on a rocket or missile. Now, many experts think the North would be able to put a nuclear weapon on a medium-range ballistic missile. Such a weapon would threaten South Korea, Japan, and U.S. military forces in both countries.

    The North is also putting its nuclear weapons on platforms that are difficult to detect and destroy. The Nodong and Musudan missiles are both launched from mobile launch vehicles that can prowl the North Korean countryside, traveling the country's road network. The country is also at work developing a submarine-launched ballistic missile that will be equipped with a nuclear warhead.

    While South Korean forces would undoubtedly target the missiles themselves in a crisis, the critical juncture for the North would be the command and control system that would put a launch in motion. That would be the North Korean leadership themselves, and the communications systems they would use to authorize a nuclear strike.


    Republic of Korea Air Force F-15K fighter bomber during a practice scramble.

    South Korea doesn't have nuclear weapons, so it would rely on a barrage of conventional missiles and precision bombing strikes. South Korean F-15K Eagles, a more modern version of the American F-15E Strike Eagle, would unleash Taurus cruise missiles against Northern targets. South Korea has a stockpile of 200 of the German-made missiles, each of which packs a high explosive warhead designed to penetrate bunkers and hardened targets.

    Seoul would also use its growing arsenal of Hynmoo "Guardian of the Northern Sky" long-range missiles (see top photo). The Hyunmoo-2A and 2B ballistic missiles have ranges of 186 and 310 miles, respectively, while the Hyunmoo-3 cruise missile, which bears a striking resemblance to the U.S. Tomahawk, has a range of 621 miles.


    RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle.

    Of course, this whole plans tips on whether South Korea can actually detect preparations for a North Korean nuclear launch. A key asset will be the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30. Seoul will take delivery of four of these long-endurance spy drones between 2017 and 2019. The aircraft will be able to monitor North Korean missile launching sites—although monitoring mobile missile launchers will be a more difficult problem. South Korea also has several RC-800 jets—converted business jets capable of performing surveillance and eavesdropping on North Korean communications.


    http://www.popularmechanics.com/mili...r-attack-plan/

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    North Korea is ready to conduct 6th nuclear test at anytime, says South Korea

    North Korea is ready to conduct 6th nuclear test at anytime, says South Korea

    US special envoy on North Korea's nuclear issue to arrive in Seoul to discuss countermeasures and the nuclear tests.

    September 12, 2016 05:29 BST

    North Korea has completed preparations for its next nuclear test and could do so "at anytime", South Korea's state news agency reported. Government sources said that Pyongyang could conduct the sixth test in a tunnel that has never been used to so far.

    Without elaborating on the imminent nuclear test, Yonhap quoted a government source as saying that "indications have been gathered that the North has completed preparations to conduct a nuclear test at any time in the third tunnel that has not been used previously". Nonetheless, it is still unclear as to what activities have been detected at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, where all the five tests were conducted by Kim Jong-un's regime, Reuters reported.

    On 9 September, South Korea's unification minister Hong Yong-pyo had warned that the North could conduct the next nuclear test soon and demand that it be recognised as a "legitimate nuclear weapons state".

    On the day of the nuclear test, the Nuclear Weapons Institute of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued a statement saying that the US had been denying the country a nuclear power status.

    Kim Jong-un, the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea – under whose supervision the recent tests were conducted – has reportedly vowed to continue to build the country's nuclear arsenal to thwart any enemy action.

    "The nuclear warhead explosion test is a demonstration of the toughest will of the WPK and the Korean people to get themselves always ready to retaliate against the enemies if they make provocation as it is part of practical countermeasures to the racket of threat and sanctions against the DPRK kicked up by the U.S.-led hostile forces who have gone desperate in their moves to find fault with the sovereign state's exercise of the right to self-defence while categorically denying the DPRK's strategic position as a full-fledged nuclear weapons state.



    South Korea warned that North Korea under Kim Jong-un's leadership is ready to conduct the next nuclear test and has already completed preparations - File photoKCNA via Reuters

    "We will take further measures to bolster the state nuclear force in quality and quantity for safeguarding the dignity and the right to existence of the DPRK and genuine peace from the US increasing threat of a nuclear war," the statement read.

    Meanwhile, alarmed by the North's repeated defiance of international sanctions, Sung Kim, US special envoy on North Korea's nuclear issue will be arriving in Seoul on 12 September to discuss the latest test and possible countermeasures, Yonhap quoted diplomatic sources as saying.

    Seoul has also warned its neighbour that it would reduce its capital Pyongyang to ashes if it carried out any attack in the Korean peninsula.

    According to reports, the US envoy is scheduled to hold talks with his South Korean counterpart, Kim Hong-kyun, on 13 September. He has already had a meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Kenji Kanasugi, in Tokyo, where they vowed to impose the strongest ever measures against North Korea.

    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/north-korea...ews&yptr=yahoo

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