Is this possible?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

By now, some readers must realize that I like creating Acronyms. Here is an old acronym I did not create; Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle (MIRV)

"If China shares the MIRV technology with Iran, Pakistan, Syria, and North Korea like it has shared nuclear, missile materials, and technology in the past it could prompt an entirely new round of concerns."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-df-3a-mirv-multiple-us-targets-one-missle-2012-12#ixzz2ginY9d8G

MIRV technology is able to destroy multiple targets with a single launch system. Originally, an Inter-Contential Balistic Missle (ICBM) was the primary device designed to deliver several perfectly targeted nuclear devices to at least six cities in the U.S.A. After the device is launched, it splits into six missiles, which create nuclear explosions in six major metropolitan areas. This ancient technology is not theoretical. What I suspect is possible is that an easily launched satellite from North Korea is able deploy this technology. Using durable weather balloons and relatively unsophisticated rockets, couldn't North Korea - with their highly publicized nuclear capability - launch a satellite that could deploy a MIRV device over the United States? If not, the Israeli Space Agency (ISA) bought satellite deployment technology from the USSR years ago to prove it was for sale, even though Israel already had numerous satellites in space at the time.

[sir pball]

1. No way.

Leaving alone the trouble the Norks have launching basic satellites, and the 25 years it took us and the Soviets to get the accuracy down to anything useful (~1 mile for the first missiles, ~200 feet nowadays) - NK doesn't and won't, ever, have the technology to make a nuke small enough to fit in a MIRV. They CLAIM that their latest test was "a small and light design" but seeing as how it took the US 40 years, 900+ tests, and untold amounts of money and other resources to go from the 11,000-pound Fat Man to the 750-pound W-88, I don't figure NK will get there...ever.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Absolutely - Russia has MIRVs, and just opened a rail connection to NK

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/22/us-nkorea-rail-russia-idUSBRE98L0BB20130922

Russia re-opens railway link with North Korea

RAJIN, North Korea | Sun Sep 22, 2013 11:19am EDT

(Reuters) - Russia re-opened a railway link with North Korea on Sunday, holding out the prospect of increased trade for the reclusive nation with its biggest neighbors after years of international sanctions.

Impoverished and squeezed by sanctions for conducting a series of nuclear and missile tests, North Korea has reached out to Moscow and Beijing for help to fill the gap left by the drying up of South Korean and U.S. economic assistance.

The head of Russia's state railway monopoly said the 54-km (34-mile) track from the Russian eastern border town of Khasan to the North Korean port of Rajin would export coal and import goods from South Korea and other Asian countries.

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"This is part of a trans-Korean transport line that will link ... this region with Europe via Russian territory," Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin said on a visit to Rajin to mark the completion of the railway line.
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USA's messing around in the backyards of China, Russia et al are creating alliances that are not in the USA's best interests -

but the USA doesn't seen to realize this, or care.

Something is gonna pop in the future;

hope I'm underground by then.

(sigh)

CC