Just when you thought North Korea posed no threat to the rest of the world, they announced
that they tested a new ultramodern weapon.
This goes against the freeze on major weapons testing that has been in place since april
of 2018.
But the difference is, this ultramodern weapon is not a nuclear weapon.
North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons is the problem most people have been focusing
on.
So how dangerous does this new weapon, and the rest of the north Korean artillery make
north korea?
Today, life’s biggest questions asks, how dangerous is north korea.
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Now lets get into this question.
Back in June of 2018, the united states and kim jong un were working toward a denuclearization
of the Korean peninsula.
And that seemed to be happening for a while, North korea seemed to start dismantling two
missile testing facilities.
Back in September, north and south korea had a metting and at the time, north korea said
that they were going to start the denuclearization process.
It seemed that peace on the Korean peninsula seemed to be on the horizon.
but unfortunately, north korea still has a very strong artillery along the DMZ, and according
to recent reports, North Korea has not denuclearized completely, in fact, in recent weeks they
seem to be ramping up their nuclear program yet again.
First lets talk about the nonnuclear artillery threat.
The Korean war ended In July of 1953, but since then, north korea has benn building
up their artillery and placing it along the demilitarized zone between north korea and
south korea.
According to an estimate by reuters, Pyongyang has deployed 13 thousand artillery pieces
along the DMZ According to the North Korean Central News
agency, kim jong un wen to the academy of defense science, which is where weapons are
developed in north korea.
And while he was there, he supervised a weapons test of a new ultramodern tactical weapon.
Accoding to the head of the Korean people’s army artillery command, Pak Jong Chon, the
weapon was a non-nuclear artillery system.
Most experts believe it the weapon could have been firing rockets.
As of right now, This directly threatens south korea and us forces that are on the Korean
peninsula.
Seoul is just 25 miles south of the DMZ, and seoul and the surrounding area is home to
around 25 million people.
There are also around 150 thousand us citizens who live in the greater seoul metropolitan
are.
South Korea knows that North Korea is still dangerous, which is why the south Korean government
has prepared underground shelters that could house the entire population of Seoul.
But these underground shelters might not be enough to protect the citizens of south korea
from an attack.
If north korea wanted to, it could deploy at least 3 artillery systems without any warning.
One of these weapons is the 170 millimeter koksan gun, which can fire a distance of 37
miles.
There are also more than 22 240 millimeter rockets on truck mounted launchers that have
a range of 37 miles.
Its estimated that a civilian attack could result in at least several thousand casualties,
which would in turn affect millions of south Korean citizens.
Plus you have to account the hundreds of thousands of us citizens of us citizens in the area,
as well as people from all over the world who are currently residing in seoul south
korea.
To make matters worse, according to the UN atomic watchdog north korea also appears to
be expanding operations at its main nuclear site, Yongbyong, even though the united states
has been pressuring north korea to denuclearize.
Yongbyong is believed to have provided fissile material for its bombs, and recently, according
to satellite imagery, components appear to have been brought into a light water reactor
being built there.
Of course, we can’t truly know whats going on in north korea.
The IAEA hasn’t had access to the rogue country since 2009, and it relies on satellite
imagery to monitor north korea.
And plus, the IAEA doesn’t usually comment on what they see.
But that doesn’t change the fact that north korea was and is still dangerous.
They might not pose a threat to most of the world at this time, but they do pose a threat
to the people who are close by, in south korea.
That being said, US and south korea military exercises are still going to be carried out
in spring of 2019, so the area is still being protected.
Alright, we’ve come to the end of the video, but before we say goodbye, I’m going to
read out some comments from my last video, what would happen if a black hole hit another
black hole.
Pendo dood – they would make a baby black hole.
Ummm not quite but that would be kinda cute?
96 Nevermore – don’t worry about black holes.
Nasa lies.
If you don’t trust nasa, you should trust albert Einstein.
KingBongHogger – don’t you just love the crushing wave of anxiety from watching videos
about space?
Just one of trillions of things need to happen and we’re gone.
I get excited when I watch videos about space.
But yeah, asteroids make me pretty anxious, not going to lie.
Triggered Popcorn – How to kill black holes.
Shoot them.
I don’t think that would work but thanks for the tip.
Sir McSkelobone – what if men had tiddies instead of women.
Now that is a life biggest question.
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