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What is the purpose of publishing information like this? At best, it’s trivia, at worst it provides advantage to a rogue nuclear power with active concentratio
by influx 9y ago
What is the purpose of publishing information like this?
At best, it’s trivia, at worst it provides advantage to a rogue nuclear power with active concentration camps.
- jlgaddis 9y agoYou honestly think that such a "rogue nuclear power with active concentration camps" couldn't figure this out on their own?
- madengr 9y agoYes
- monocasa 9y agoWhy? It's all public information. And the sense I've gotten is that the North Korean engineers overall seem competent, they just lack resources.
- nugi 9y agoTo play devils advocate, their resources being limited is a huge boon to our reletive superiority. This post does in effect concentrate them into an actionable plan, with minimal effort. That said, I am pretty sure the dark zone is only theoretical, due to limited publicly available data on likely classified access.
- nyolfen 9y agothey can develop a fully-fledged nuclear program with ICBMs and hydrogen bombs but they can't scour public resources about launch detection systems
- nerdponx 9y agoWhich rogue nuclear power with active concentration camps do you have in mind? The USA?
- secfirstmd 9y agoI think the person is referring to North Korea - which has active concentration camps.
- eesmith 9y agoI think nerdponx is being deliberately ambiguous. One problem is that "concentration camp" can mean something like "extermination camp" or something like "internment camp". The US has a long history of concentration/detainment camps - Native Americans in the 1800s, in the Philippines around 1900, the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, the recent internments at Guantanamo, Bagram, and likely elsewhere. Some of those latter ones still exist. Another issue is that "rogue state" is a controversial term. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_state : > Both Noam Chomsky and William Blum have used the term in the title of their respective books to categorise the United States as the biggest rogue state in the world and thereby highlight the irony and hypocrisy implicit in the use of the term by the United States. When I'm felling cynical, it seems that "rogue state" - as it's used by people in the US - refers to any country not willing to agree to US demands or wishes. I'm sure the intersection of these is not empty, that is, there are likely many people who regard the US as a rogue state with active concentration camps.
- nerdponx 9y agoI genuinely forgot about North Korea for a minute, so I thought they were being ambiguous and I was really curious to know what "concentration camps" might have meant. I assumed it was Gitmo, or some other heinous offshore prison I hadn't heard about yet. Thanks for the benefit of the doubt! I'm OK with the US being a rogue state at this point, it seems fitting.
- megaman22 9y agoIn that case, I hope we're also embargoing Tom Clancy, Michael DiMercurio, and Patrick Robinson paperbacks from said rogue state.