“”“North has also claimed to have mastered a re-entry technology designed to protect a warhead from extreme heat and other challenges when it returns to the atmosphere from space following a missile launch. It also said it had successfully conducted a high-powered, solid-fuel rocket engine test”""
And they’ve figured out time travel, cars that run on urine and brain transplants. Feeding folks is still a problem though.
Meanwhile back at the lab …
… yet another successful launch.
And the Great Leader Kim Jong Cartman did all of those things himself, in his spare time.
Then he had another lunch.
Time for a missile shield. Is the world ready for a lasers from space demonstration? Or maybe just a tiny drone to fly up his butt and take him for a little ride. Stop this guy in his tracks.
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Well… defensive weapons tend not to work very well. The Patriot missiles used in Israel were said to have had a success rate close to zero, often causing more damage than they potentially prevented. And lasers? Two words: Shiny paint. (Two bonus words: spinning warheads.) Too many words? Here’s something simpler that defeats lasers in space: clouds. The much-vaunted x-ray laser, the cornerstone of Reagan’s Star Wars defense system, was pretty much a hydrogen bomb with a metal rod in the middle, and… well, it only worked in theory. And last I heard, even the theory was discredited.
What actually works is disarmament, whether it’s by mutual agreement or at the point of a gun. A Hellfire missile would probably work as well.
Well…yes. Piglet just makes me angry. It is good I’m not in charge.
While I generally agree that Kim Jong Crazy and his claims are overblown, I usually ugre caution in this sort of thing. Remember (and I can) October 1957, when everyone save a few thought that the Russians were too primitive to launch Sputnik.
Two things have changed in the world since then:
- Information technology/ technology transfer
- Almost anything can be bought for a price today.
(Especially if you have an entire country as your own private piggy bank.)
It is widely understood that the DPRK space program has received help from other nations, too. That’s how the design of their launch vehicles improved enough to allow them to orbit satellites. If their space program has been so improved, why not their missile tech as an adjunct?
Another thing is that North Korea’s technical minds are not at all substandard. The media image is of a fat boy who is “Dear Leader” surrounded by a mess of goose stepping soldiers. The inference is that North Korea is not only misguided, but that it is also stupid.
First, this article and a lot of others underestimate North Korea.
I was taught that the first thing you NEVER do is underestimate an opponent.
I believe they are working on IRBM/ICBM technology. To believe it can’t be done because of all the other problems they have is propaganda in its own right.
Second, how often has someone said that “such and such” can’t happen, just before someone does it anyway?
N. Korea Says It Tests New Rocket Engine … Video shows Kim Jong-un bending over and lighting a fart.