US Responds To North Korean Nuke Test, Flies B-52 Over South Korea
On Tuesday, North Korea announced it had “successfully” tested a hydrogen bomb.
According to Kim Jong-Un, the test was necessary because America is “a gang of cruel robbers” hell bent on waging nuclear war. “This is a self-defensive step for reliably defending the peace on the Korean Peninsula and regional security from the danger of nuclear war caused by the U.S.-led imperialists,” Kim said.
Subsequently, experts weighed in, noting that based on the device’s yield, it likely wasn’t a “true” H-bomb. Nevertheless, analysts said the test showed the North’s nuclear program is evolving, a decidedly unwelcome prospect for Washington’s ally in Seoul.
In a hilariously absurd retaliatory measure, the South resumed anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts across the DMZ.
Adding insult to injury, the loudspeakers were fired back up on Kim’s birthday.
That prompted the North to declare that the peninsula is “on the brink of war.” Now, for the second time in six months, tensions between Seoul and Pyongyang have reached a fever pitch.
And so, just as The Pentagon was "forced" to send a warship and a B-52 to the Spratlys to deter Chinese "aggression", the US conducted a B-52 flight in South Korea on Sunday.
"The bomber, which can carry nuclear weapons, flew over the Osan Air Base about 45 miles south of the inter-Korean border around midday local time, the U.S. military said," WSJ writes, adding that "the B-52, based in Guam, was joined by American and South Korean fighter planes before returning home."
“This was a demonstration of the ironclad U.S. commitment to our allies in South Korea, in Japan, and to the defense of the American homeland,” Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., commander of the U.S. Pacific Command said. Here are a series of amusing tweets from Pacific Command's official Twitter account:
[1/4] Responding to unlawful #NorthKorea nuclear test, a @USAirForce B-52 conducted a low-level flight over the ROK https://t.co/WD0ZPqf4rT
— U.S. Pacific Command (@PacificCommand) January 10, 2016
[2/4] The B-52 took off from #Andersen AFB, #Guam, and was escorted by @PACAF F-16 and #ROKAF F-15 fighters. pic.twitter.com/5K3rQUdKgZ
— U.S. Pacific Command (@PacificCommand) January 10, 2016
[3/4] This bilateral mission demonstrates U.S. and ROK
resolve to maintain stability and security on the Peninsula. pic.twitter.com/MFtB2dTxaz
— U.S. Pacific Command (@PacificCommand) January 10, 2016
[4/4] US demonstrated "ironclad commitment to our allies in South Korea, in Japan, and to the defense of the American homeland." -#ADMHarris
— U.S. Pacific Command (@PacificCommand) January 10, 2016
Kim didn't immediately respond to the show of force, but as The Journal dryly notes, the North "typically calls such action evidence of the U.S.’s intention to invade."
Obviously, Washington has no interest in "invading" the North, but the US is quite adept at making a bad situation worse, and sure enough, Yonhap is out reporting that Ash Carter may deploy a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Korean peninsula next month for joint naval "exercises" with Seoul, a move which is sure to infuriate Pyongyang.
In reality, the most effective way to counter Kim would likely be to simply ignore him. Responding to the North's sabre rattling effectively legitimizes Kim's threats and sends a message to the North Korean people that the regime actually has some shred of international credibility. In short, it's critical for Kim to perpetuate a narrative that revolves around a kind of epic, ongoing struggle between the DPRK and America. The US plays into that when Washington does things like fly B-52s near Kim's borders. As soon as North Koreans figure out it's all a charade, the music will stop for Kim.
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Funny, I do my calcs using troy ounces.
To people in Ore-E-Gun every topic boils down to marijuana and/or ecofaggotry. Do us all a favor and insert your Ore-E-Gun into your mouth.
Trying to insult him by sending decipid military hardware, or just couldn't find an operational
B17 ?.
Would have to borrow one from the Condederate Air Force and then paint over the offending, microaggression inducing flag.
"Commemorative" Air Force. CAF caved to PC long ago.
Fly the big ole formidable B-52 OVER North Korea - now that would tighten up their sphincters.
Thats the beauty of the b-52...they can fly high enogh where you can't hear or see them, shit just starts blowing up all around you
It would have been the ultimate weapon - in World War I.
I agree. Fly it directly over Pyongyang with bomb bay doors open. Then maybe that little POS in NK will stop threatening everyone.
You're in good hands .... with "All State" (Muslim president who believes in big government .) ?
Top US Admiral Fired For Questioning Obama Purchase Of Mansion In Dubai
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1979.htm
I read the article, I am speechless. Why hasn't congress brought this fucker down? Could sombody please send congress a truckload of mens balls.
So does this mean after his term the taxpayer will be paing for a carrier battlegroup for his personal bodygaurd? TRUMP for POTUS.
The ultimate in section 8 housing. Reggie is the ultimate welfare recipient.
He got fired for looking at porn on a secure computer? Obama and the navy have been at odds for a while now.
Unleash the US version of the Samson option on the whole ME, once he's ensconced over there, of course. Podesta, Saudi Arabia, ....yadda, yadda, every new day is just like the last one, only worse. Wonder why the fucker is moving? Going back to where he's from? Proggies are such dullards, birthers were right all along.
Obama didn't buy it. The Saudis did. Making this the largest bribe ever paid to a sitting President. And making Obama a treasoner as a foreign agent serving as President.
OK, not a bribe, but say a 'reward', for an underhanded and corrupt job well done, for the world controllers that is, not us. A new honorary member just got added to the club. I fear we won't be rid this 'thing' even after he's gone from office.
Just park a Trident sub off the coast of NOKE.
NOKE will be renamed NUKE in about 3 minutes.
Roll back in your cave
So they launch Trident nuclear missiles horizontally? Who the fuck knew...
And so, just as The Pentagon was "forced" to send a warship and a B-52 to the Spratlys to deter Chinese "aggression", the US conducted a B-52 flight in South Korea on Sunday.
They sent a 1952 B-52? If they really wanted to shake them up, why didn't they send a 1935 B-17?
That bomber is expected to be almost 100 years old when withdrawn WG. If you carry stealth missiles with very long range and very long standoff capability, you can deliver them with almost anything. The USAF just happens to still have a high flying bomber with a lot of air frame life left, that can do it. If it were designed as a penetrator, yes, it would be useless, and suicidal to use it that way (and it was originally a penetrator). But as a protected heavy very long-range in air refuellable V-LO cruise missile carrier, it's almost perfect. And those old air frames are a fair bit younger than the original 1952 era versions, most of which had their wing spars destroyed in the early 1990s under strategic arms reduction agreements. They are just doing a little sabre rattling here, to remind them of what would happen.
Yet another load of aussie BS... There is not "a lot of airframe life left" in any of the 78 B-52s still in service, as the "youngest" planes are over 50 years old. It just so happens that USAF has no better replacement for the old crates... There are also no stealth missiles out there, as the whole concept of "stealth" is incompatible with the high speed any missile develops during its flight... You're talking up your ass... again.
I notice you russian state-trolls are busy up and down this thread actively supporting pudge-boy, Mr. 'MONK27'? What's the matter, are you getting a bit worried about Russia's Far East?
Newsflash, the B-52s wouldn't need to use a single nuke to smash the north, conventional cruise weapon capabilities would more than suffice.
At least the Chinese are a bit more realistic in their enlightening excuse-making last week, where Beijing said they couldn't do much to pressure the north, because of deep fears that it may cause the DPRK to completely collapse if they do.
So it's not like pudge-boy is fooling anyone with the ludicrous shows of 'strength'. Moscow and Beijing are both clearly worried about how weak and fragile the north is. And also that just maybe the South has had enough this time and will actually go to war, no matter what virulent threats that idiot in Pyongyang makes. ;-)
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JASSM, JASSM-ER and LRASM are all currently integrated on the US bomber fleet, all are very low observable stealth cruise missiles, and all are subsonic missiles (and those are just the ones you know about). The B-52s are planned to be staying in service for another 45 years to about 2060, so there's clearly plenty of airframe life left in them, dumb-dumb. :D
Whatever floats your boat, dude ! But a but few non-stealth, subsonic cruise missiles are not scaring anybody out there. Keep droning though, you're kind of funny with your nonsense. Another thing, planing to fly the old crates for another 40 years doesn't make them any better, just waay more expensive...
So now they do exist huh? Now the missiles are not high speed. Now there is air frame life. But ... but .. you seemed so sure!
But you still want to pretend radar and Thermal very low observability do not matter huh? Still in denial to the bitter end with that one? Yeah, well, good luck with that response fool.
WOW flying with a B-52 over Korea should reeally impress them. /s
This is such childish behavior. Just like the bullying.
Reminds me of of British serie "Dad's army".
I know, whatever happened to the advice of just ignoring stupid behavior, behavior that in the grand scheme of things, makes NO difference to us. And the corollary: a response just encourages more.
The President just isn't very good at the "Dick Measuring Game"
At least, not in this context
I hear he and Reggie have a highly ritualized dick measuring game involving who can push their dick deeper into the other's asshole.
and afterwards they spoon and tell jew jokes; like what happens when a jew with a hard on walks into a wall
he breaks his nose
to deter Chinese "aggression",
I assume you mean North Korean agression
Same thing - these sand niggers all look the same.
Edit: I guess the obvious sarcasm about US views of the rest of the world isn't that obvious
This will ramp up tensions with China:
US, South Korea discuss deploying “strategic weapons”
By Ben McGrath8 January 2016
Following North Korea’s fourth nuclear test on Wednesday, the US and South Korea are reportedly discussing, at the highest levels, the deployment of “strategic assets” to the Korean Peninsula. The stationing of nuclear weapons and associated delivery systems would be a major escalation of the US military build-up in Asia, which is directed primarily against China, not North Korea.
Voice of America also reported that the US and South Korea had ordered their military forces on the Korean Peninsula on “high alert.” Almost 25,000 US troops are in South Korea, according to Defense Department data, plus about 3,200 Defense Department civilian employees.
While ostensibly directed against North Korea, these measures cannot be explained as a reaction to that regime’s primitive efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, any use of which would be suicidal, given Washington’s immense nuclear arsenal.
Rather than the supposed “rogue state” in Pyongyang, the real global aggressor is the United States, which has been engaged in predatory military interventions for decades, and the primary target of the current moves is China, which is being increasingly encircled militarily and strategically by the US “pivot to Asia.”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/01/08/lead-j08.html
Turkey pretends to be fighting ISIS, as a cover for attacking the Kurds. Saudi Arabia pretends to be fighting Yemen, but is really at war with Iran by proxy.
The U.S. pretends to be "containing" North Korea, but is really building up its Asian forces to use against China.
The madness continues.
Gold.
If Russia, China, and a few other major Asian trading nations decide to go full-on gold-backed Yuan, or a basket of currencies backed by gold, what is the United States going to do - bomb all of them...?
Flying the equivalent of a super-sized Model T in a 'show of force'...? Jeezus U.S. policy makers have so skrewed the pooch it's not even funny anymore.
"Gang of cruel robbers"?
LOL, he is spot on there, but I would have been a lot more harsh. His words do not even come close to what this .gov has become.
If the breadth and depth of the fraud, corruption, and murder that has been perped in the name of "patriotism and freedon" by the kikeistani occupiers that direct the marionette strings in this Republic the public would be aghast.
Then maybe not because there are too many infected with the mind virus of religion that think the kikes can do no wrong.
Da plane! Da plane!
Lil' Kim=Tatoo.
NK has more than a million men with AK's, they can quickly march to the capital of SK with guns blazing... what is it, 30 km away? Take them a few hours. Along the way they can use SK weapons against them as they advance.
Then what? US will nuke civilians in NK, nuke SK and NK at the same time? US to do landings in NK with a few hundred soldiers? not likely
The 26,000 US troops in SK would be overrun by the advancing NK army.
Kim can have a great victory... All because of US imbeciles
Those million Nokes have to wait until the world's largest artillery barrage is over; that is the real sword hanging over the South, not a nuke. But once Seoul is a smoking hole every square inch of land from the border north becomes a huge conventional weapons test range. What an opportunity to "use by sell date". The North is too close to China to nuke but I bet they would stay out of the ass kicking for a chance to observe Western weapons and tactics.
Sounds cool until you realize that about a million people will have died in an hour from the pounding of Seoul by the biggest collection of massed artillery the world has ever known.
I'm thinking that Kid Kim is savvy enought to listen to the generals telling him to wait until the the US finally gets a carrier or two Silkwormed or Sunburned by somebody else. Then it'll be time to go ho' shopping south of the former border.
If they do, then Western car makers, phone and TV makers would jump for joy and click their heels: bye-bye Samsung, LG, Hyundai, Kia. Bullish for Western stocks.
If the US really had balls they would have flown that B-52 over North Korea !!
Fully loaded !
Meh, childish saber rattling.
Hey! Now if Obomba would have placed Kim on a No-Fly list, why then we'd be talking act of war! ;-)
Exactly. He'd need to buy two seats for his ass anyway. lol Can you imagine his pudgy fingers trying to use a ring pull? I guess he's got people for that.
I totally agree that to set up a huge lo-fi loudspeaker system obviously manifesting high inter-harmonic distortion and poor bass performance on one's border is tantamount to a declaration of war. That type of behaviour is certainly prohibited under our local town ordnances, and to do it on such a scale is reprehensive. Had it been a Quad or JBL system would be a different matter.
South Korea should put a cork in it, them.
On their own, they are no match.
lol yup and they got their asses whooped by North Koreans until US intervened and then they were driven back by Chinese.