North Korea - how serious should we take them?

[AreOut]

Jon321 said:

Rolling out the anti aircraft gun executions it seems again. I imagine it's quite a quick way to go albeit a bit of a sledgehammer & nut situation.

http://news.sky.com/story/north-korea-executes-two...

AA ammunition is too precious there to spend on such executions, just more propaganda from their south enemy

[Rich_W]

Halmyre said:

pim said:

Tyrant who has the support of China that is why he is getting away with his antics.

A shame N.Korea has no oil the west would have brought a bit of democracy to this country>

Except, the Chinese would have annexed it long ago.

Whilst the Chinese may not have the best ideas at times. You'd think they'd be a better bet than the Jong dynasty!

[230TE]

AreOut said:

AA ammunition is too precious there to spend on such executions, just more propaganda from their south enemy

Does any country other than North Korea still have anti-aircraft guns? I thought it was all missiles these days.

[ABZ RS6]

230TE said:

Does any country other than North Korea still have anti-aircraft guns? I thought it was all missiles these days.

Plenty still in the camel ridden countries. Mostly stuck on the back of Taliban taxis and fired horizontally thought.

[Cobnapint]

230TE said:

Does any country other than North Korea still have anti-aircraft guns? I thought it was all missiles these days.

Don't give him any ideas, ffs...!

[Z06George]

ABZ RS6 said:

230TE said:

Does any country other than North Korea still have anti-aircraft guns? I thought it was all missiles these days.

Plenty still in the camel ridden countries. Mostly stuck on the back of Taliban taxis and fired horizontally thought.

On ships they still have AA guns in the form of CIWS such as Goalkeeper and Phalanx.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJWk0EMuTjE

[skyrover]

230TE said:

AreOut said:

AA ammunition is too precious there to spend on such executions, just more propaganda from their south enemy

Does any country other than North Korea still have anti-aircraft guns? I thought it was all missiles these days.

The Russians like to combine them into a single system

Pantsir-S1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTOSs94Q4z0

[FourWheelDrift]

230TE said:

Does any country other than North Korea still have anti-aircraft guns? I thought it was all missiles these days.

Probably the same reason why all the modern missile armed fighters in Vietnam were fitted with guns and continue to be so today. Cheap, lots of metal in the air and still very capable of downing a low flying aircraft. Chaff, flares and jamming doesn't work.

[dudleybloke]

skyrover said:

230TE said:

AreOut said:

AA ammunition is too precious there to spend on such executions, just more propaganda from their south enemy

Does any country other than North Korea still have anti-aircraft guns? I thought it was all missiles these days.

The Russians like to combine them into a single system

Pantsir-S1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTOSs94Q4z0

Perfect for dealing with those unruly pigeons!

[eharding]

Jon321 said:

Rolling out the anti aircraft gun executions it seems again. I imagine it's quite a quick way to go albeit a bit of a sledgehammer & nut situation.

http://news.sky.com/story/north-korea-executes-two...

Ri Yong-Jin executed for falling asleep in a meeting, apparently.

I imagine sales of Red Bull to senior NK officials have increased quite sharply as a result.

[230TE]

eharding said:

Ri Yong-Jin executed for falling asleep in a meeting, apparently.

I imagine sales of Red Bull to senior NK officials have increased quite sharply as a result.

I did that once, and got fired. The Norks seem to be taking the concept of "firing" a little too literally.

[Jimbeaux]

Truth is wilder than fiction when it comes to NK. Missing student turns up as Kim The Fat's English tutor:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-student-missing-china-...

[DMN]

230TE said:

AreOut said:

AA ammunition is too precious there to spend on such executions, just more propaganda from their south enemy

Does any country other than North Korea still have anti-aircraft guns? I thought it was all missiles these days.

Quite a few. With the rise of cheap UAV's we'd be silly not to be looking at some. Destroying a £500 UAV with a £50,000 missle is a bit silly.

The last ones we had where retired in the early 90s(?) and where some that we'd nicked off of Argentina in '82.

[FourWheelDrift]

They are serious bad-asses.

40 years ago North Korea stole 1000 Volvo 144 saloons and Sweden still sends them a bill for €300m every 6 months which is routinely ignored. They still use the cars.

http://europe.newsweek.com/north-korea-owes-sweden...

They are still ignoring it today.

[230TE]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/north...

Add your own sarcastic comment.

[tescorank]

Oh no there getting bigger.

5.3-magnitude "artificial earthquake" detected near North Korea's main nuclear site
Tremor was nuclear test, South Korea says
Nuclear test was country's fifth and "most powerful" to date
Explosion was twice as powerful as January test
Suspected test comes on 68th anniversary of founding of North Korean regime
South Korea condemns Kim Jong-un for "maniacal recklessness"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/09/north-k...

[AreOut]

F15s and A10s from Osan airbase scrambled to patrol the border...

[skyrover]

tescorank said:

Oh no there getting bigger.

Presumably they are working on getting them physically smaller.

It remains to be seen if the Chinese//South Koreans will allow the North to develop a deliverable warhead.

[Welshbeef]

At what point do we send in the B52 bombers and bomb the st out of those Neuclear sites?

[skyrover]

Welshbeef said:

At what point do we send in the B52 bombers and bomb the st out of those Neuclear sites?

When we can be sure the Chinese aren't going to get involved.

Basically they need to strike a grand bargain.