North Korea Says it can Take Out Manhattan with a Single Hydrogen Bomb - Polidicks

[QUOTE]SEOUL — North Korea claimed Sunday that it could wipe out Manhattan by sending a hydrogen bomb on a ballistic missile to the heart of New York, the latest in a string of brazen threats. Although there are many reasons to believe that Kim Jong Un’s regime is exaggerating its technical capabilities, the near-daily drumbeat of boasts and warnings from Pyongyang underlines the regime’s anger at efforts to thwart its ambitions. “Our hydrogen bomb is much bigger than the one developed by the Soviet Union,” DPRK Today, a state-run outlet that uses the official acronym for North Korea, reported Sunday. “If this H-bomb were to be mounted on an inter-continental ballistic missile and fall on Manhattan in New York City, all the people there would be killed immediately and the city would burn down to ashes,” the report said, citing a nuclear scientist named Cho Hyong Il. [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/north-korea-claims-it-could-wipe-out-manhattan-with-a-hydrogen-bomb/ar-AAgIXYy?ocid=spartandhp[/url]

They'd have to actually get a nuke to hit anything before that happens. NK needs to quit dickwaving already.

[QUOTE=Rocko's;49925057]They'd have to actually get a nuke to hit anything before that happens. NK needs to quit dickwaving already.[/QUOTE] they'd have to actually get a hydrogen bomb

It's like a child shooting roman candles at a tank, it's not going to work out for you North Korea.

Well they could if they had one and a missile to mount it on.

Prove it then, NK. Do everyone a favor and try it.

Thanks for the laugh, Nork. This is why I always look forward to this time of the year.

Does Kim know that America can make South Korea an island with the ordinance we have? It's like a tick trying to pick a fight with a Tiger.

[QUOTE=Limed00d;49925087]Thanks for the laugh, Nork. This is why I always look forward to this time of the year.[/QUOTE] I'm starting to wonder when it's not THAT time of the year :v:

[quote]"Our hydrogen bomb is much bigger than the one developed by the Soviet Union"[/quote] Lol. The Tsar Bomba, the USSR's most powerful Hydrogen bomb, was too heavy for any plane or ICBM to carry it far enough for it to be of any use. There's no way these shitheads can carry an even more powerful device all the way to America or even get it off the launch pad when they don't even have decent ICBM tech.

"We can blow up an entire city guys" is kind of no longer a valid threat when there is a council in place made of nations who, for the most part, have the ability to do the exact same thing. Good job North Korea, you're just catching up with technology everyone got their hands on fifty years ago.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;49925137]Text[/QUOTE] Not a great deal of countries have nukes.

[QUOTE=Electrocuter;49925106]Lol. The Tsar Bomba, the USSR's most powerful Hydrogen bomb, was too heavy for any plane or ICBM to carry it far enough for it to be of any use. There's no way these shitheads can carry an even more powerful device all the way to America or even get it off the launch pad when they don't even have decent ICBM tech.[/QUOTE] Not to mention the recent seismic event that they claimed was an H-bomb test was determined to have an incredibly low yield for an H-bomb. So it either was a fission bomb or an extremely shitty H-bomb. NK, if you want to make bold claims, you should probably make sure there's no solid scientific evidence that your claims are embarrassingly untrue.

you might be able to nuke manhattan if the missile wouldn't disintegrate in the air halfway through the flight

[QUOTE=ProfHappycat7;49925199]you might be able to nuke manhattan if the missile wouldn't disintegrate in the air halfway through the flight[/QUOTE] That's assuming they have an airplane capable of lifting said bomb that totally exists and is real.

[IMG]http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAgJ5MK.img?h=486&w=728&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1257&y=739[/IMG] [quote]“If this H-bomb were to be mounted on an inter-continental ballistic missile and fall on Manhattan in New York City, [B]all the people there would be killed immediately[/B] and the city would burn down to ashes,”[/quote] That's not something to brag about.

[QUOTE=ProfHappycat7;49925199]you might be able to nuke manhattan if the missile wouldn't disintegrate in the air halfway through the flight[/QUOTE] The last two flights of their orbital rocket have successfullyput satellites into orbit. That's not really a valid joke anymore. Their biggest limiting factor isn't delivery, it's miniaturization.

Reads sort of like a basic description of the capabilities of nuclear weaponry as if the world at large had never heard of the things. Seems even more disconnected to reality than I would imagine.

While the US is out of reach from north korea, and declaring war would be suicide, I do worry about south korea, to which north korea is an actual threat and could cause massive casualties. Here's hoping north korea will keep making empty threats until the regime collapses on its own weight.

and first it would have to cross an ocean and one of several land masses without being intercepted

[QUOTE=Winded;49925246]While the US is out of reach from north korea, and declaring war would be suicide, I do worry about south korea, to which north korea is an actual threat and could cause massive casualties. Here's hoping north korea will keep making empty threats until the regime collapses on its own weight.[/QUOTE] I'd personally rather them nuke NY than Seoul.

[QUOTE=soulharvester;49925288]I'd personally rather them nuke NY than Seoul.[/QUOTE] any uh... reason why

[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;49925250]and first it would have to cross an ocean and one of several land masses without being intercepted[/QUOTE] [del]I don't think you can intercept an ICBM while it's hundreds of kilometres above the ground though.[/del] Nevermind I'm wrong.

[QUOTE=KillRay;49925302]any uh... reason why[/QUOTE] I sympathize with the south Koreans more than newyorkers, I guess. [QUOTE=TheRealRudy;49925325]how is this even relevant, i'd rather have neither bombed[/QUOTE] It's relevant within the context of the threat. [QUOTE=Kljunas;49925329]I don't think you can intercept an ICBM while it's hundreds of kilometres above the ground though.[/QUOTE] It's possible to intercept, especially as long as the payload is in a propelled state of flight. It's possible to intercept the payload while it's in free fall, but unless they're setting off huge bombs to intercept it, actually hitting the payload in free fall is much harder than in flight.

[QUOTE=soulharvester;49925333]I sympathize with the south Koreans more than newyorkers, I guess.[/QUOTE] any uh... reason why do you think the humans of seoul are worth more than the humans of new york

[QUOTE=soulharvester;49925288]I'd personally rather them nuke NY than Seoul.[/QUOTE] Let's not bomb anything? Perfect solution. I remember years ago that we had a system to intercept nukes before they blow anything up in the US. Is that still happening?

What's going to happen North Korea when Trump is elected? We all know Trump will respond to their dickwaving. I can see him encouraging the regime to actually do something so he can kick their ass. He will piss off Kim.

[QUOTE=mcgrath618;49925052][url]http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/north-korea-claims-it-could-wipe-out-manhattan-with-a-hydrogen-bomb/ar-AAgIXYy?ocid=spartandhp[/url][/QUOTE] North Korea couldn't hit the side of a barn with their shitty nukes,let alone New York.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;49925137]"We can blow up an entire city guys" is kind of no longer a valid threat when there is a council in place made of nations who, for the most part, have the ability to do the exact same thing. Good job North Korea, you're just catching up with technology everyone got their hands on fifty years ago.[/QUOTE] We at one point had planned to drop 100 MT of ordinance on a bridge, through accidental overlap of targets, but the point remains, the security council can't just wipe out cities, they can all wipe out an entire continent if they tried

[QUOTE=KillRay;49925344]any uh... reason why do you think the humans of seoul are worth more than the humans of new york[/QUOTE] Because I value the existence of South Korea's unique culture more than I value New York's. There's also my understanding that an ICBM launched at NY is infinitely less likely to detonate on target than one launched at Seoul. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Country trolling" - Starpluck))[/highlight]