North Korea Calls U.S. and Israeli Bombing of Iran “Gangster-Like Conduct”
I guess this reaction to the bombing of Iran from North Korea is to be expected, but the term “gangster-like conduct” is quite interesting coming from a regime known as the Sopranos State:
North Korea on Sunday strongly condemned military strikes against Iran by the United States and Israel, calling them “gangster-like conduct.”
The U.S. and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran on Saturday (U.S. time) in a large-scale military operation that the Iranian state media said killed its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, amid a stalemate in indirect nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran.
In a statement carried by the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA), Pyongyang said Israel’s attack on Iran was conducted with the active support and backing of the U.S., and that Washington’s subsequent military actions constituted a “thoroughly unlawful act of aggression” and a “gross violation of sovereignty.”
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More likely scenario…
The one government that never gave up its nuclear program is still in power. Everyone else got a lesson.
Iran knew the lesson but didn’t learn it.
On the other side, when this is done, Trump may have also taught the world a lesson that Clinton, Bush, and Roh needed to learn.
I mean Kim is a gangster himself. Have you seen his outfits?
You’re right!!
“Pyongyang said Israel’s attack on Iran was conducted with the active support and backing of the U.S., and that Washington’s subsequent military actions constituted a “thoroughly unlawful act of aggression”.”
That’s absurd.
It wasn’t an illegal act of aggression.
It was an “undocumented” act of aggression.
Plus it identified as “mostly peaceful”…
Gangster?
What about gangstim?
It sounds like North Korea is assuming the conduct’s gender.
Next, they will be saying the deadname, “Islamic Republic of Iran”.
North Korea practically has no strategic depth compared to Iran. It’s a very small country. If the US committed to a massive missile and drone build up, it could knock out every military target in NK within an hour.
“North Korea practically has no strategic depth compared to Iran.”
Well let’s roll!
Sadly (for us), North Korea has “artificial strategic depth”.
– underground infrastructure
– forward deployment (buried artillary)
– nuclear deterrence
– Chinese buffer
– the threat of a collapsed regime overwhelming functioning South Korea with dysfunctional refugees
North Korea relies on deterrence and immediate retaliation to compensate for its lack of strategic depth.
But you almost sold me until I thought about it.
There’s no ROI on attacking Norkistan.
Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar has gotten really good at detecting changes on the ground. Could be used to find the entrances to many of those underground structures and movement in and out. Combined with compute (and potentially powerful AI) and thousands of loitering drones, could hit within minutes of detection. We’ve also been collecting Intel on their military for decades. Probably already know a great deal on where a lot of their stuff is.
Nuclear deterance only works if the delivery system can deliver. Launcher can be it faster than NK reaction in such a situation due to how small it is. The country is smaller than Mississippi.
Of course this would be terribly expensive requiring tens of thousands of drones and missiles. Thousands of hypersonic missiles. Thousands of planes with many more thousands of bombs, but it’s well within the realm of material possibility to build a force that can bomb everything within 20 minutes.
Not politically possible though. US is not going to invest nearly that much into a flaky alliance, and SK is far more interested in appeasement.
A far cheaper potential would be to send Hundreds of small blimp drones to drop counterfeit NK currency and subversive information into the country in order to fuck up their economy and create unrest, defections, and possible regime collapse. But again, SK is unreliable. SK helped smuggle critical goods and technology to the north and we’ve antagonized Russia too much.