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When we have a hostile country regularly lobbing missiles into the ocean with the stated objective of transforming a U.S. state into a radioactive cloud, we have a problem. One "oops" and we could suddenly become a 49-state nation again -- and that is only if we forget the issues with fallout and the potential for a nuclear winter (granted, that could be good news for the global warming folks).
However, the approaches to cutting the legs out from under North Korea largely have been in-the-box thinking: economic sanctions that require China's cooperation (and aren't working); military and assassination options that would trigger retaliation that likely would result in a lot of us glowing at night; and revolution efforts that have little or no chance of succeeding.
Still, there are companies that have been working on technologies that effectively could contain North Korea's missiles and turn their leader into more of a vocal than a physical problem. Since I'm on the West Coast and possibly within range of his wrath, the idea of nerfing the guy appeals to me.
I'll explain how tech could nerf North Korea and close with my product of the week: a memory module from Intel called "Optane," which is amazing.
The North Korea Problem
One of the big challenges with containing North Korea is geographic. It borders South Korea on the south and China on the north. The Chinese border is huge, and given the fact that China hasn't been particularly helpful with economic sanctions, punishing the country has been problematic.
However, we're not living in the Middle Ages, and the threat from North Korea isn't its standing army but its increasing capability with ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles). If the U.S. could enforce what basically would be a missile no-fly zone over North Korea, much of the threat would be mitigated. (Granted, ship- and human-carrying bombs still would be a concern, but we have traditional ways of dealing with those kinds of threats.)
Putting an impenetrable glass dome over the country would be ideal, but getting Corning to make enough Gorilla Glass for that would be problematic (though immeasurably cool).
Intel Drone Swarms
Imagine a few thousand of these things high-speed dropped into any country. A vacation in Switzerland suddenly might seem far more attractive than repelling an invasion.
Wrapping Up
I think that technology could help provide a solution to keeping North Korea contained, though there is a risk of a "use it or lose it" mentality as the technologies were deployed that likely would need to be dealt with conventionally at first (maybe a ring of Patriot missile batteries).
None of the technologies I've highlighted are mutually exclusive -- for instance, we could have both an air-based flying drone swarm carrier and a wave of high-speed ground attack robots hitting the country at once -- and, come to think of it, we could begin by firing off the underground EMPs to reduce any response severely.
In the end, though -- and seriously -- we must stop thinking conventionally about problems like rogue nations. If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything, it is that conventional weapons largely are inefficient when invading a country and containing the related problems.
We have the technology, and we eventually will use it. Why not move the "use" part up so that it can be more effective against today's problems rather than just tomorrow's?
Exam Dates:
Laboratory Technician (Physics Group) (Advt. No. 07/2016): 08-07-2017
Laboratory Assistant (Physics Group) (Advt. No. 11/2016): 09-07-2017
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When we have a hostile country regularly lobbing missiles into the ocean with the stated objective of transforming a U.S. state into a radioactive cloud, we have a problem. One "oops" and we could suddenly become a 49-state nation again -- and that is only if we forget the issues with fallout and the potential for a nuclear winter (granted, that could be good news for the global warming folks).
However, the approaches to cutting the legs out from under North Korea largely have been in-the-box thinking: economic sanctions that require China's cooperation (and aren't working); military and assassination options that would trigger retaliation that likely would result in a lot of us glowing at night; and revolution efforts that have little or no chance of succeeding.
Still, there are companies that have been working on technologies that effectively could contain North Korea's missiles and turn their leader into more of a vocal than a physical problem. Since I'm on the West Coast and possibly within range of his wrath, the idea of nerfing the guy appeals to me.
I'll explain how tech could nerf North Korea and close with my product of the week: a memory module from Intel called "Optane," which is amazing.
The North Korea Problem
One of the big challenges with containing North Korea is geographic. It borders South Korea on the south and China on the north. The Chinese border is huge, and given the fact that China hasn't been particularly helpful with economic sanctions, punishing the country has been problematic.
However, we're not living in the Middle Ages, and the threat from North Korea isn't its standing army but its increasing capability with ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles). If the U.S. could enforce what basically would be a missile no-fly zone over North Korea, much of the threat would be mitigated. (Granted, ship- and human-carrying bombs still would be a concern, but we have traditional ways of dealing with those kinds of threats.)
Putting an impenetrable glass dome over the country would be ideal, but getting Corning to make enough Gorilla Glass for that would be problematic (though immeasurably cool).
Intel Drone Swarms
Imagine a few thousand of these things high-speed dropped into any country. A vacation in Switzerland suddenly might seem far more attractive than repelling an invasion.
Wrapping Up
I think that technology could help provide a solution to keeping North Korea contained, though there is a risk of a "use it or lose it" mentality as the technologies were deployed that likely would need to be dealt with conventionally at first (maybe a ring of Patriot missile batteries).
None of the technologies I've highlighted are mutually exclusive -- for instance, we could have both an air-based flying drone swarm carrier and a wave of high-speed ground attack robots hitting the country at once -- and, come to think of it, we could begin by firing off the underground EMPs to reduce any response severely.
In the end, though -- and seriously -- we must stop thinking conventionally about problems like rogue nations. If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything, it is that conventional weapons largely are inefficient when invading a country and containing the related problems.
We have the technology, and we eventually will use it. Why not move the "use" part up so that it can be more effective against today's problems rather than just tomorrow's?
Exam Dates:
Laboratory Technician (Physics Group) (Advt. No. 07/2016): 08-07-2017
Laboratory Assistant (Physics Group) (Advt. No. 11/2016): 09-07-2017
OMR Sheets: Click Here
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