I am pursuing the guidance route. I don't think we have found the missing i. It's a given that the missiles are duds.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/alleged-north-korea-missile-broker-kept-a-low-profile-neighbors-say-1513767931

Australian arrested for trying to sell NK missile parts and other fun stuff.

http://www.jrmaroney.com/why-bill-clinton-is-responsible-for-north-koreas-successful-missile-program/

Loral Globalstar - sold to China by Clinton. Some other goodies in there.

https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/analytic-guidance-north-korea-makes-improvements-missile-systems

A general analysis of NK's missile capability and its change over time. Noteworthy is the mystery of where the hell they are getting the resources for increased op tempo.

After sleeping on it…

Musk's launch was an Iridium corporation satellite. Iridium provides civilian and military satellite data services. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications

" The Iridium system requires 66 active satellites in orbit to complete its constellation and spare satellites are kept in-orbit to serve in case of failure. . . . . Most of these satellites were launched in the late 1990s before the company went through bankruptcy. Since the bankruptcy, until January 2017, only seven additional satellites were launched but an updated constellation of 66 satellites called Iridium NEXT is being rolled out, planned for launch between 2015 and 2017 on SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicles from Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4 in California.[23][24] On January 14th 2017, SpaceX successfully launched 10 of the new Iridium satellites into orbit.[25] The second launch of Iridium NEXT satellites took place on June 25th, 2017 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket out of Vandenberg Air Force Base. This was the second of eight scheduled launches.[26] The third launch of 10 NEXT satellites took place on October 9, 2017. On December 22, 2017, ten additional satellites were deployed after a successful launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellation

"The satellites will incorporate a secondary payload for Aireon, Inc.[18], a space-qualified ADS-B data receiver. This is for use by air traffic control and, via FlightAware, for use by airlines.[19] A second secondary payload on 58 satellites is a marine AIS ship tracker receiver.

Iridium can also be used to provide a data link to other satellites in space, enabling command and control of other space assets regardless of the position of ground stations and gateways.[15]"

If the missing I is related to Iridium… Q could be referring to the Space-X launch, not the NK launch, but insinuating that Space-X is supplying NK.

>>161637

You've got to take the red pill on North Korea.

How can a nation with massive malnutrition issues have an effective standing army?

How many nukes does it take to win a nuclear war? Is NK a valid nuclear power even with 10 30M ton yield nukes?

Is a hurricane more devastating than a nuclear blast?

What was Project Starfish?

What aircraft does North Korea have?

How will or can they move troops?

What air defense systems do they have?

The 'secret' is in the open. Most, even in the military, are just not the analytical types. Even so, those of us who were there found the … 'concerns' more than a little ridiculous.

It's a dog and pony show. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Keep your eye on the floating head.

>>163721

You're caught up in "thinking special" rather than "thinking outside the box." If CNN reported that it snowed outside, you'd take the family out to swim in the pool.

Special and radical does not necessarily mean truth. People are afraid of unknowns. What people are pretty sure of is that NK is crazy-ville. What no one wants to risk is whether or not they have a nuke. Getting it here doesn't even enter most of their minds.

The wizard of oz is just a floating head. Not a whole body. Humans fixate on things they understand and identify with, rather than the things they don't. The booth was plain to see, but the head is where everyone looks.

Ultimately, you think what you want about NK. However, it doesn't change the relevance of my questions.

You do need air power and air defenses. Where does their electricity come from? Their food? Water? You can hole up in a bunker all you want to. If you can't poke your head out to shoot the guys coming to cut you out…. makes no difference.

You do need healthy ground forces. Not a paper army of starving conscripts who have an SKS and barely the education to formulate a prayer. But why not smart soldiers? What happens with them?

You need fuel - which means you need stores of it. You need munitions, and stores of it. You need mines for metal, some source of nitrates for muntions, and factories to process them. If not - you need a seller and a means with which to buy.

You need storage facilities and maintenance routines. You need weapons ranges and tests.

Look up Patton's Quicksilver. We fooled the Nazis into believing there was a massive force that never was. Central to this operation were double agents working for us - people the Nazis trusted the reports of. This extended credibility to the smoke and mirrors. This is also central to many magic tricks.

So… it's up to each anon to use their own reasoning, here. I am not going to tell you that there is zero chance NK is very heavily armed and well trained. I am, however, saying that I have not seen much in the way of evidence that shuch a large, well-trained military force exists outside of paper claims.

As for nuclear war - you think in terms of cost and damage. "Everyone loses." This is not the way to look at wars, as all wars are mutually destructive. If you can't win a nuclear war, then you can't win a snowball fight. The question is simply that of scale and temperature.

By what logic would North Korea being able to destroy… say… 30 cities and 15% of our population be a loss when we can take ownership of 100% of their landmass? It's a cost/benefit analysis.

But you need far more than 10 nukes to do that kind of damage to the U.S. We have simply been raised to fear the almighty nuke to the point where people are running from the ocean after Fukishima …. when nuclear testing in the 60s and 70s tipped far more background rads on the Geiger counter. Keep everything in a consistent perspective.