re: North Korea Thread -8/14- Un Briefed on Plan to Attack Guam; DPRK Moving IRBM launchers

What is Sky King?

What's more important/strategic for NK to attack? Seoul or DMZ? Also how far away is the Capitol from the DMZ?

And yes I'm aware of what the DMZ is before anyone asks.

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What is Sky King?

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LINK

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SKYKING, SKYKING, DO NOT ANSWER. Here's some answers.
You're surfing SDRadio and you tune pass 8992 kHz or 11175 kHz in USB and suddenly you hear:

SKYKING, SKYKING, DO NOT ANSWER.

A series of phonetic letters and numbers follow in some ominous leftover from the Cold War. Spooky.

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We'll start with what we do know.

1)SKYKING is operated by the United States Military. Some of the messages are transmitted from Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska (the ones that end in "Offutt Out"). This is the headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) which is charged with space operations (such as military satellites), information operations (such as information warfare), missile defense, global command and control, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR), global strike and strategic deterrence (the United States nuclear arsenal), and combating weapons of mass destruction.

2)SKYKING messages have been transmitted since at least the early 1980s.

3)During times of tensions, or unusual behavior by Russia, China or North Korea, SKYKING messages broadcast more often. In March of 2015, Russia launched surprise military exercises near the borders of Finland and Norway (the latter of which is a NATO Member). When this happened, a SKYKING message lasting 34 minutes was broadcast. Unprecedented by most previous transmitted messages, and, as of the date of this post, none have been nearly that long. (EDIT: OCTOBER, 31 2016 SAW A 42 CHARACTER CODE TRANSMITTED)

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Speculation that is probable.

Based on publicly available and common information, "solid guesses" are listed here.

1)The transmitted codes are likely One Time Cipher Pads, sometimes known as a Caesar Cipher. This is a set if codebooks held only by the transmitter and recipient of the message and they have the only two copies of the codes and know which letters and numbers mean what. Once it is used, it is never reused.

2)That means it's nearly impossible to crack the transmission's meaning. Simple fact: the US Military would not broadcast it on something you and I could pick up if they though their code could be compromised. We cannot decipher these SKYKING messages. Don't try.

3)SKYKING messages are probably sent to nuclear elements of USSTRATCOM and maybe intelligence units. Most of the messages are probably benign; "Nothing new, all is well." Occasionally, it can be assumed a "Something odd is happening in Russia, we will let you know if it gets worse," message is sent.

4)Most likely, since SKYKING messages seem to be part of the Air Force, some of these messages are directed at TACAMO (TAke Charge And Move Out) stations or aircraft. It is still common practice of the US Government to maintain a National Command Authority Chain of Succession and Command should a terrible event strike the US Government. An important redundancy for a nation as powerful as the US.

5)You won't crack the cipher. Seriously, no you won't.

6)Longer messages probably mean something. What the "something" is, I'm not sure. Maybe it's "I'm on R&R this week so you will hear a different voice but it's authentic," or "China has a new aircraft circling the South China Sea and Japan is worried. Pick up its radar signature." We'll never know.

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The Russians have something similar called "The Buzzer".

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Well 38North has noticed increased activity around their subs, signalling a submarine launch

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Damn man. That's insane you said that. Another thread I was reading today said we would sink those subs and immediately choreograph a volley of tomahawks and lancers at strategic military and residential sites for KJU.

This will also be done with Japan as well as South Korea.

From what I've read it's war.

China will not be involved until the land starts being seized.

I find it interesting that they claim ICBM could reach us now, but others say they can't with a war head on them.

So IMO they obviously can't because like discussed above they are showing activity with their subs.

This makes me very curious of how unstable this is. A simple Google search says that their fleet is pretty much garbage, and it's very dangerous for them.

I know I've seen you guys on here talking about them using a mobile platform such as a vehicle based launch. Supposedly they're nowhere near this at this time correct?

Anyways how dangerous are these two concepts for NK? What happens with a failure? Can a simple launch be catastrophic for them if not done correctly, or does a warhead have security measures in place for these types of issues?

Damn you Poli Board, and Insomnia!!

Anyways thanks for all who are up right now, and especially answering my basic questions

So you don't think if they fire off one more rocket that we don't respond this time?

I'm not trying to argue with you; I'm asking you where you think Trump stands on his red line?

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Anyways how dangerous are these two concepts for NK? What happens with a failure? Can a simple launch be catastrophic for them if not done correctly, or does a warhead have security measures in place for these types of issues?

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I know for us, once an ICBM is launched there are no abort measures possible. Once it is launched, that's it. That's why there are so many measures before hand to ensure a launch is wanted.

Test missiles do have a command destruct package added in case the missile goes somewhere you don't want it to, but i'm not sure if NK is that advanced/smart enough to have that.