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[IronyOwl]

One would think those would be swept for rather rigorously, but yeah.

The ocean is very big and the detonation could be manual

I mean, if they were sufficiently paranoid they could probably rig the mines to detonate when attacked with normal sweeping methods. Or make the clearing of a conventional mine the trigger for the nuclear detonation. You can add nukes to horseshoes and hand-grenades pretty fairly, after all. Or, hell, set them to manually detonate and seed them inside conventional minefields.

Now there's good thinkin'.

Or best of all, say you've put nuclear sea mines in the ocean, when you haven't. US navy starts cautiously searching for nuclear sea mines that don't exist. Plan backfires when China invades

I mean, the threat is half the point with mines of most varieties, right?

[Loud Whispers]

Also a man piloted midget submarine carrying the nuclear weapon in a suicide attack
Despite being old as fuck, their subs can still avoid detection, providing a real risk of conventional suicide attacks or a worst case scenario nuclear attack

Or best of all, say you've put nuclear sea mines in the ocean, when you haven't. US navy starts cautiously searching for nuclear sea mines that don't exist. Plan backfires when China invades

I mean, the threat is half the point with mines of most varieties, right?

Pretty much, area of denial and all that

I would not want to be a mine disposal diver, often because bringing a torch could trigger the detonation, they have to work in cold darkness underwater and figure out what mine is located underwater by feeling it by hand. Imagine that as your job description, you blindly feel up bombs in conditions that would kill most people normally lol

How small does anyone think NKorea's made their warhead anyways? They say it's miniaturized but Western Media calls that bullshit

[Flying Dice]

How small does anyone think NKorea's made their warhead anyways? They say it's miniaturized but Western Media calls that bullshit

Must... resist temptation... to crack joke.


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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Regret is for the dead.

[RedKing]

Thread title is best title.

[SirQuiamus]

Yet Another Cowardly Imperialist Plot to Assassinate the Beloved Leader

[My Name is Immaterial]

_{Something something medivac drop something something nydus worm something something dark templars something something kim better make sure his detection and map control is good}

[smjjames]

Yet Another Cowardly Imperialist Plot to Assassinate the Beloved Leader

No surprise that they'd have such a contingency plan. What IS surprising though is that the guy apparently blabbed about it right in the open. I mean, that's like telling your enemy 'Yo, we're gonna assassinate you soon!'.

[IronyOwl]

Yet Another Cowardly Imperialist Plot to Assassinate the Beloved Leader

No surprise that they'd have such a contingency plan. What IS surprising though is that the guy apparently blabbed about it right in the open. I mean, that's like telling your enemy 'Yo, we're gonna assassinate you soon!'.

If NK actually attacks, SK is going to be about as screwed as it ever will pretty much immediately. There's obviously some merit to taking out sustained artillery and such as soon as possible, but assassinating the top brass isn't going to do anything once the button's been pressed.

On the other hand, if SK says it will assassinate the top brass, theoretically the top brass might be less willing to actually invade, which is far more productive. It could also just be a poorly thought out hawk thing or trying to speak NK's language, in which case of course they're going to brag about how tough they are and how all illegal aggressors will be destroyed immediately and with overwhelming force.

So the same reasons NK keeps bragging about nuking the US, basically, except SK's claims are actually plausible.

[smjjames]

Yet Another Cowardly Imperialist Plot to Assassinate the Beloved Leader

No surprise that they'd have such a contingency plan. What IS surprising though is that the guy apparently blabbed about it right in the open. I mean, that's like telling your enemy 'Yo, we're gonna assassinate you soon!'.

If NK actually attacks, SK is going to be about as screwed as it ever will pretty much immediately. There's obviously some merit to taking out sustained artillery and such as soon as possible, but assassinating the top brass isn't going to do anything once the button's been pressed.

On the other hand, if SK says it will assassinate the top brass, theoretically the top brass might be less willing to actually invade, which is far more productive. It could also just be a poorly thought out hawk thing or trying to speak NK's language, in which case of course they're going to brag about how tough they are and how all illegal aggressors will be destroyed immediately and with overwhelming force.

So the same reasons NK keeps bragging about nuking the US, basically, except SK's claims are actually plausible.

And top brass being Kim Jong-Un. Though it's also calling his bluff, in a somewhat dangerous way.

[RedKing]

South Korea knows what to do if they hear "Nuclear launch detected" -- spam vision and kill all Ghosts. They'll be fine.

[Loud Whispers]

South Korea knows what to do if they hear "Nuclear launch detected" -- spam vision and kill all Ghosts. They'll be fine.

North Korea tech is so behind they haven't research cloaking tech yet, meaning they're wide open for a liberator freedom rush

[My Name is Immaterial]

South Korea knows what to do if they hear "Nuclear launch detected" -- spam vision and kill all Ghosts. They'll be fine.

North Korea tech is so behind they haven't research cloaking tech yet, meaning they're wide open for a liberator freedom rush

After all, I'm pretty sure that NK's army is mostly just Marines and Tank, a combination that doesn't do very well against massed FREEDOM. I'm pretty sure that Kim just had them build a Ghost Academy as a feint; they're relying on mass bunkered marines and sieged tanks. The biggest problem is that they don't have any Medivacs, so that army is hamstrung when it comes to mobility, while SK is using a much more advanced tech army, ready for marine/marauder drops right into the mineral lines. While that drop's going on, what's Kim going to do against a Hellion/Cyclone attack against his third to snipe some buildings?

[90908]

Plus they didn't scout very well in the early game. Kim thinks that SK went full bio.

[Max™]

I guess this is the closest thread for it... so uh, any of you fine folks heard about some sort of goddess cult controlling the president of South Korea?

http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3025416

That's a hell of a thing, but surely the president would come out and tell everyone how absurd it is, right?

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/10/25/south-korea-leader-acknowledges-ties-to-woman-in-scandal.html

Ah yes, she acknowledged ties to her...

WAIT WHAT?

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/767405.html

I think I speak for everyone when I say: WTF 2016!?!?!