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particularly in Washington state, Oregon, and California get up every day wondering if this is the day that NK is going to nuke us because of the dripping piece of shit repukes call a president does more to piss off the man child?
I think that the dripping piece of shit would not care if we got nuked because he could make an example of us by showing what happens to states that are willing to be sanctuary states and fight to stay blue.
RedWedge
(618 posts)Seeing how NK probably doesn't have the missile technology to do so.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)but what they have is enough to reach Washington state and possibly Oregon and California. With the dictator of our country and the NK dictator it is on extremely shaky ground.
NBachers
(17,007 posts)TBA
(825 posts)The River
(2,615 posts)in 1962 when I moved from Illinois to Washington D.C. My classmates all said I be among the first to die when WW3 started. Nope, not going to worry about some crazy ass in NK.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)definitely reachable by his nuclear bomb.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)The River
(2,615 posts)I'm in northern California. Still not worried.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)They might be able to hit Alaska with one of their rockets, but they don't have a nuclear warhead ready at this time, as far as anyone has been able to determine.
So, sleep soundly.
jackssonjack
(79 posts)They do have the capability to hit us with the Taepodong-2 space rocket.
Pyongyang says the Taepodong-2 three-stage space rocket is part of its civilian space program, a launch vehicle for delivering satellites into orbit. Outside experts, on the other hand, have long seen the country's space program as a cover for a missile development program. Here's last February's Taepodong-2 launch.
In a post dated September 17, the highly respected ArmsControlWonk blog unveils a grim assessment about North Korea's nuclear missile program. At least one North Korean rocket could theoretically deliver a nuclear warhead to virtually any point in the United States.
For more than a decade, North Korea's number one security goal has been putting a nuclear warhead on a missile that can reach the U.S. The North reasons that only nuclear deterrencethe ability to strike back with nuclear weapons if someone launches a first strike on youwill deter the United States from interfering militarily on the Korean peninsula.
North Korea has been busy testing all kinds of missiles. Pyongyang's Musudan missile will eventually be able to reach Guam with a nuclear warhead. Experts think the KN-08 mobile missile may be able to place a small nuclear warhead on the West Coast of the U.S. by 2020. And the KN-11 submarine-launched missile is a short-ranged missile that will eventually reach intercontinental ranges. While many of these missile tests have been failures, North Korean engineers appear to be learning from their mistakes, with each flight going a little farther before breaking up in midair.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/advice/a22948/north-korea-icbm-range-united-states/
katmondoo
(6,454 posts)RKP5637
(67,032 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)So while we are smoking a doobie, no one will care if we're nuked out of existence. Especially the Republicans back east, who could give a shit, about California and the Western Coast States... they would say "fuck em" we don't need them anyway...
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I'm not the biggest fan of preemptive strikes but this is a hugely complicated matter and i hope that people smarter than myself are working diligently on a resolution.
If it comes down to it and he has a small nuclear weapon that can be delivered via a rocket that can reach the US, or shows that he has a nuclear weapon that could possibly delivered via boat to the West Coast of the US, I do believe that he and 75 million people that live on the Korean peninsula will be in danger of fallout from a US device delivered to stop him.
Its a heavy time and we've picked the wrong leader here to guide us.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)That is the likely target if they launch.
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)I have more realistic things to worry about.