North Korea has fired dozens of missiles. What now?

Articulate what will happen to DPRK if one of those missiles actually hits a Japanese or US target

“ North Korea has fired dozens of missiles. What now? “

Wipe them off the map (?)

Simple, as soon as these drills are completed, move on to the next stage.

Just a teaser. Which is one of their biggest source of income from the international.

Like Pavlov's dogs, NK are conditioned into escalating tensions on demand.

Currently the West, led by the US wants a stronger counter to threats to Taiwan.

And with missiles flying over Japan, this gives a perfect reason to buy/push more weaponry into the region.

Cheers, Kimbo!

Smack a puppy to teach it good from bad and it will grow up loving you. Keep smacking it and it will turn and bite you.

Here's an idea...

How about we be the adults and reach out to Kim. Tell him that for the next 6 months we will lift all sanctions and open up a free trade agreement with every country and zero restrictions. In return, he has to stop all his nonsense. Who knows, in time, the north could become like its southern brother. If after 3 months (or whatever timescale) he is still being belligerent then the restrictions will be even more enforced. Life could become good for his people and we can all live in the world peace we'd always been told was never possible.

Just an idea.

But then again. Our masters need a villain to scare us so they can pump our tax extortions into the military machine.

Japan needs to build it's own missile shield. Long overdue and necessary.

Nuclear Submarines to patrol 24/7 Korean, Chinese and Russian waters. Japan has to defend thousands of miles of waters and islands.

New stealth drones staying close to North Korea, monitoring any lunch or suspicious activity. Sensors closer to the action, will give more response time and targeting data, including all the hiding spots for counter attacks if necessary.

Cruise missiles, hypersonic missiles, all are necessary and needed once the conflict begins. The research and acquisition needs to begin now instead of later. Only a few hundred missiles could disable North Koreas ability to touch Japan. South Korea is another story, even old artillery can reach Seoul.

From how I understood little rocketman's way of thinking, I would let the North fire as much missiles as it wants so long as it is not hitting civilian and military installations since it likes to flex its muscles to overcompensate for....other things. But I would begin to take escalated action if: one missile hits a civilian or military installation, the missile fired had a live warhead, especially a nuclear, chemical or EMP one, and it flew directly over a South Korean population. The trick with dealing with provocations is that to not take the bait but also drawing clear lines that they should never cross. Pyongyang knows that if it takes it too far, it is in for a world of hurt.

What would the US do, if for example, Cuba and China were to hold a huge military exercise in international waters right off of Florida?

It would watch and do nothing, since it is international waters.

Some posters here are of US military background. Can you post how many USA missiles have been fired this year in that area. I tried googling us military budgets, can only find the cost of each missile, but not how many are used for “practice”. Links would be good.

Stop with the provocations. How about that?

This article does a poor job of explaining North Korean backlash against the Vigilant Storm.

The Vigilant Storm is no ordinary air combat drill; it simulates the complete destruction of North Korean air defense and C&C within 3 days; the targets to be taken out are Kim Jong Un's palace, underground command bankers, air defense network and search radars, nuclear weapons depots and entrance of underground missile and airforce bases, etc. North Koreans are seeing their radar screens go bright with hundreds of spots 24/7 for days.

Given the nature of the Vigilant Storm, it's totally understandable why North Koreans are outraged and launch 30 missiles in response, they have to do something to defend themselves.

Send FattyKim some containers with food and medicine and he will calm down..

Zoroto

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What would the US do, if for example, Cuba and China were to hold a huge military exercise in international waters right off of Florida?

Cuba? And China? Laugh at the level of dysfunction.

All that money wasted sending missiles into the ocean, while the people of North Korea starve. He's a real genius.

North Korea has fired dozens of missiles. What now?

Nothing.

This has been going on for many years, same as always. Nothing will change.

Nothing will change.

No this time is different. The US is simulating attacks 24 hours over a number of days because they are serious about engaging the North in order to be able to extend hegemony over the entire peninsula as part of its end game of engaging and then taking over China, which it has identified as a threat to US global supremacy...in US ideology there can only be one "winner," and US elite certainly won't stand for an Asian nation to overtake it, which China has been in the process of doing, so first the North then China need to be destroyed and taken over as Iraq was.

What now? Both North and South Korea has been working towards a reunification by 2045. So what about US stop interfering, and let them build a peaceful unified Korea?

DPRK could try a different track and aim to become a peaceful and useful member of the world community. Even keeping their nuclear weapons, there is much they could still do to address some of the other reasons there are UN sanctions in place against them. There are several responsible but neutral nuclear powers in the world.

Constantly threatening seas of fire and crying “Sanctions are unfair!” achieve absolutely nothing.

No signs of any maturity yet.

The time has come to relinquish the ambition to destroy the DPRK. It is about time to recognize the DPRK and sign a peace treaty with her.

The time has come to relinquish the ambition to destroy the DPRK. It is about time to recognize the DPRK and sign a peace treaty with her.

There is no intention to destroy DPRK. That is a falsehood that must be challenged. If you are historically honest it was DPRK that attacked the ROK in 1950, not the other way around. DPRK and PRC never agreed to a treaty with the UN to end the war. All they would agree to is an armistice that exists to this day, along with the continued threat by DPRK to invade and destroy ROK if the chance ever presents itself.

What would the US do, if for example, Cuba and China were to hold a huge military exercise in international waters right off of Florida?

Probably the same thing the US did a month or two ago when the Chinese and Russian navies conducted joint exercises off the coast of Alaska in the Behring Sea. Bet you weren't even aware of that exercise. The US sent a couple of Coast Guard cutters to keep an eye on the exercise and monitored it from afar but didn't make any commotion over it. Likewise when the Russians conducted a big naval exercise right off Hawaii some months ago simulating attacking a carrier strike group. Again I'll bet you weren't even aware of that exercise. As long as they all stayed in international waters they were doing nothing illegal so the US said nothing.

he Vigilant Storm is no ordinary air combat drill; it simulates the complete destruction of North Korean air defense and C&C within 3 days; the targets to be taken out are Kim Jong Un's palace, underground command bankers, air defense network and search radars, nuclear weapons depots and entrance of underground missile and airforce bases, etc. North Koreans are seeing their radar screens go bright with hundreds of spots 24/7 for days.

Please stop the propaganda. What you posted is emphatically not true. Vigilant Storm, formerly called Vigilant Ace, practices close air support for ground troops defending against a DPRK attack on the south, as well as counter air tactics to be used against invading DPRK and maybe Chinese aircraft. The scale of the operation simulates a response to a full scale attack by DPRK and by incorporating air and land forces of both the US and ROK it allows them to practice coordinated combined arms tactics so everyone is interoperable if that ever becomes necessary.