08-08-2017, 09:32 PM
(08-08-2017, 09:21 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: But we don't have a good idea where anything is in North Korea. And only a tiny percent of North Koreans have cell phones. Most are lucky if they have food.
Consider our intel on Iraqi "nucyular weapons of mass destruction". How accurate was that? And we actually had access to some human intell in Iraq. We have practically no human intell in North Korea. They are locked up "tighter than a d*** headband", as my DI used to say.
Our intelligence commuity can do some pretty amazing things. But they can't do everything. And like all of us, they do make mistakes and miss things.
My phone and on star examples weren't literal in this case but showing our capabilities today. Our ability to gather intelligence in the last 5 years has grown 100x from the Iraq war. I know contractors in various parts of the military and I can say with no hesitation if we want to see somewhere in North Korea we can , and we can have it high resolution within days maybe sooner depending on how well we know what it is we are looking for.
I'm sure your speaking from your experiences, I am only speaking from what I have been told by those who are involved in these kinds of things today. The reality either way though...this situation isn't good.
