The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Stevicus]

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Stevicus]

NKorea's Kim orders 'exponential' expansion of nuke arsenal | AP News

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the “exponential” expansion of his country’s nuclear arsenal and the development of a more powerful intercontinental ballistic missile, state media reported Sunday, after he entered 2023 with another weapons launch following a record number of testing activities last year.

Kim’s moves are in line with the broad direction of his nuclear program. He has repeatedly vowed to boost both the quality and quantity of his arsenal to cope with what he calls U.S. hostility. Some experts say Kim’s push to produce more nuclear and other weapons signals his intention to continue a run of weapons tests and ultimately solidify his future negotiating power and win greater outside concessions.

“They are now keen on isolating and stifling (North Korea), unprecedented in human history,” Kim said at a recently ended key ruling party meeting, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. “The prevailing situation calls for making redoubled efforts to overwhelmingly beef up the military muscle.”

During the six-day meeting meant to determine new state objectives, Kim called for “an exponential increase of the country’s nuclear arsenal” to mass produce battlefield tactical nuclear weapons targeting South Korea. He also presented a task to develop a new ICBM missioned with a “quick nuclear counterstrike” capability — a weapon he needs to strike the mainland U.S. He said the North’s first military reconnaissance satellite will be launched “at the earliest date possible,” KCNA said.

“Kim’s comments from the party meeting reads like an ambitious — but perhaps achievable — New Year’s resolution list,” said Soo Kim, a security analyst at the California-based RAND Corporation. “It’s ambitious in that Kim consciously chose to spell out what he hopes to accomplish as we head into 2023, but it also suggests a dose of confidence on Kim’s part.”

Last month, North Korea claimed to have performed key tests needed for the development of a new strategic weapon, a likely reference to a solid-fueled ICBM, and a spy satellite.

Kim’s identification of South Korea as an enemy and the mention of hostile U.S. and South Korean policies is “a reliable pretext for the regime to produce more missiles and weapons to solidify Kim’s negotiating position and concretize North Korea’s status as a nuclear weapons power,” Soo Kim said.

Panda said the reference to a new ICBM appears to concern a solid-propellant system, which could be tested soon. He said a satellite launch could take place in April, a month that includes a key state anniversary.

Worries about North Korea’s nuclear program have grown since the North last year approved a new law that authorized the preemptive use of nuclear weapons in a broad range of situations and openly threatened to use its nuclear weapons first. During last week’s party meeting, Kim reiterated that threat.

Earlier Sunday, South Korea’s military detected a short-range ballistic missile launched from the North’s capital region. It said the weapon traveled about 400 kilometers (250 miles) before falling into the water between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said that the U.S. commitments to defend South Korea and Japan “remain ironclad.”

North Korea test-fired more than 70 missiles last year, including three short-range ballistic missiles detected by South Korea on Saturday. The testing spree indicates the country is likely emboldened by its advancing nuclear program. Observers say the North was also able to continue its banned missile tests because China and Russia have blocked the U.S. and others from toughening U.N. sanctions at the Security Council.

I think our missiles are still bigger than their missiles.

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Revoltingest]

One seldom sees excelsior these days.
There's some with my 1920s Skill worm
drive circular saw in it's original box.

Edit...
To the unfamiliar, it's stringy shaved wood...
useful for padding & absorbing oil in water.

 

[Wu Wei]

NKorea's Kim orders 'exponential' expansion of nuke arsenal | AP News









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I think our missiles are still bigger than their missiles.

Want scary.... one US Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine carries 24 and we have greater than 10 of those

Total, we have roughly over 5000, Russia has more, China has considerably fewer, I believe lass than 1000. North Korea has around 50, and its expansion is directly dependant on how much China supplies and allows

 

[Wu Wei]

One seldom sees excelsior these days.
There's some with my 1920s Skill worm
drive circular saw in it's original box.

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Stevicus]

Want scary.... one US Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine carries 24 and we have greater than 10 of those

Total, we have roughly over 5000, Russia has more, China has considerably fewer, I believe lass than 1000. North Korea has around 50, and its expansion is directly dependant on how much China supplies and allows

I thought this chart was interesting:

The Russian nuclear arsenal surpassed the US in the 1970s and continued upwards until just about the mid 1980s - then the Soviet Union collapsed.

Status of World Nuclear Forces – Federation Of American Scientists (fas.org)

 

[sun rise]

I know less about this than I thought I did before reading the article, but:

Conservatives vying to derail Kevin McCarthy's speaker bid may not be able to stop him. But forcing multiple votes — the record is 133 — could still make for a historic fight.

I'd be OK with not having a functioning House for a month or three.

 

[sun rise]

One seldom sees excelsior these days.
There's some with my 1920s Skill worm
drive circular saw in it's original box.

Edit...
To the unfamiliar, it's stringy shaved wood...
useful for padding & absorbing oil in water.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

But which commie inhabits your naughty dream world?

Well, that one there, that is as almost as strong as a no as a minor because he's beyond atrocious and difficult to understand when he speaks so consent just can't ever be clear I have to imagine.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I don't think many of us actually know how jobs work. Like we say learn a skill, but being autistic I can confirm being excellent at a skill is not enough. We're told job hoping is bad and damages you chances of getting a job. I told my oldest niece that after she had several jobs in a few years, but several years and dozens of jobs later she's still getting them with no problem despite never having a job more than a few months.
But normies are often blind and take so many things for granted I'm not surprised some of the self-important ones decided to tell us all how it works without it even working like that. Much like how we've seen many of their assumptions about humans and the economy unraveling to the point even Greenspan "yeah, this doesn't really work like we've thought and been saying."

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Mike Pence once said "nothing is more ennobling than a job." I can think of many things far greater and more ennobling amd without anyone thinking "arbeitet macht frei." Like having a picture you made on display during an art exhibition. Or seeing your poem published in a book. Even when it's small and doesn't pay, I found it a significantly greater boost to self esteem and a friskier stroke of the ego than getting a job.

 

[Revoltingest]

Mike Pence once said "nothing is more ennobling than a job." I can think of many things far greater and more ennobling amd without anyone thinking "arbeitet macht frei." Like having a picture you made on display during an art exhibition. Or seeing your poem published in a book. Even when it's small and doesn't pay, I found it a significantly greater boost to self esteem and a friskier stroke of the ego than getting a job.

When you work, you carry your weight.
When you don't, you force others to.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

When you work, you carry your weight.
When you don't, you force others to.

That doesn't make a work the most ennobling thing though. It doesn't even make it ennobling because many jobs require enduring much humiliation. If it's something like an oncologist, yeah, that's a very good thing? Serving a heart attack in a wrapper? It makes a little bit of money and is not ennobling because you don't even make enough to pay the bills and endure a lot of crap to still end up on welfare.

 

[Revoltingest]

That doesn't make a work the most ennobling thing though.

Compared to being a burden
imposed upon others, it would be.

It doesn't even make it ennobling because many jobs require enduring much humiliation. If it's something like an oncologist, yeah, that's a very good thing? Serving a heart attack in a wrapper? It makes a little bit of money and is not ennobling because you don't even make enough to pay the bills and endure a lot of crap to still end up on welfare.

Worse than working a humiliating
job would be forcing someone else
to work that job to support you.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I don't think many of us actually know how jobs work. Like we say learn a skill, but being autistic I can confirm being excellent at a skill is not enough. We're told job hoping is bad and damages you chances of getting a job. I told my oldest niece that after she had several jobs in a few years, but several years and dozens of jobs later she's still getting them with no problem despite never having a job more than a few months.
But normies are often blind and take so many things for granted I'm not surprised some of the self-important ones decided to tell us all how it works without it even working like that. Much like how we've seen many of their assumptions about humans and the economy unraveling to the point even Greenspan "yeah, this doesn't really work like we've thought and been saying."

I agree. However, I never believed those people to begin with.