Serious question about North Korea...

[TreasonousBastard]

Where is this little shit getting the parts and technology for his bombs and rockets?

Officially, Russia and China think he's nuts. Is he using a black market underground to get the stuff via Iran or some other place?

[FSogol]

1. Chinese companies sell them the tech and the govt looks the other way.

We should be pressuring China to enact real sanctions on NK, but they want to play both sides.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. China, Iran and in some cases leftover Soviet-era stuff that makes its way through the market.

[sarisataka]

3. And a very good question...

as NKs nuke and missile capability seems to be growing exponentially recently. In about a year they have gone from hardly getting short range missiles off the ground to repeated successful launches with 10k+ km ranges... Such a turnaround in an isolated program is nearly unbelievable.

[RKP5637]

4. The way it's going, he will get the nukes. The US really can stop him without a war

and none want that. My feeling is he's got lots of underground suppliers. The end result will be deterrents.

[yallerdawg]

5. This is ALL coming from China!

They have met our "fearless leader" - and are punkin' him everyday now!

Showing the world how this gutless coward is "All Hat, No Cattle!"

[B2G]

6. This has been going on for decades.

At least be honest about that.

[yallerdawg]

8. What am I not being "honest" about?

Do you think we negotiated a draw at the 38th Parallel because of North Koreans?

It has ALWAYS been China!

[Not Ruth]

7. South Korea's new President has gone from dove to hawk overnight

He was elected as a dove a month ago. He just ok'd tripling the THAAD deployment, and quite a few related military escalations, and no longer believes in just negotiating with North Korea. It all seems a so convenient for all.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. If this world were any more surreal, I would say they're buying stuff from gsaauctions.gov

[thucythucy]

10. I thought they originally purchased nuke technology from Pakistan.

As for the more recent stuff, I don't know.

[Not Ruth]

11. ICBM is not nuke

Pakistan has no ICBM, more countries have nukes than have ICBM. If the NK missiles were largely similar to those of any other country's, we would be able to tell immediately. It is like the difference between a PC and an iPhone.

[thucythucy]

12. Yeah, but a non-nuke ICBM is pretty useless

compared to one with a nuke on top. The OP asked about "bombs" as well as missiles.

I wonder if NK will pass along its ICBM technology to Pakistan.