OT: Nuclear Situation in Korea

[Webstral]

Does anybody know how you find tunnels the owners don't want found? I know ground penetrating radar has come a fair distance since the US started trying to use it against the Vietnamese Communists, but I have no idea what the state of the art is. Can you use sonic technology?

[Schone23666]

Originally Posted by Webstral

Does anybody know how you find tunnels the owners don't want found? I know ground penetrating radar has come a fair distance since the US started trying to use it against the Vietnamese Communists, but I have no idea what the state of the art is. Can you use sonic technology?

I found an interesting link here in regards to that. It seems in regards to the tunnel problems underneath the 38th Parallel DMZ, narcotics shipping tunnels underneath the U.S. southern border, and the various tunnels and caves used by insurgents in places such as Afghanistan, the U.S. has been continuing plenty of research on this.

http://www.agu.org/meetings/sm06/sm0...m06_NS21A.html

The Text is pretty small though, fair warning. May need to copy-paste and use a larger text size to read it.

[kato13]

Originally Posted by Schone23666

The Text is pretty small though, fair warning. May need to copy-paste and use a larger text size to read it.

In most browsers <CTRL>+ will increase font size.

[natehale1971]

When i was in college, we had a student who was from South Korea, and they talked about the Army of the Republic of Korea having found tunnels that the North Koreans had been building... and that gave me the ideas of the use of tunnels as a delivery system for a nuclear device. Especially after reading all the materials about the underground nuclear testing.

that any underground explosion under a city, like Soul... would end up being the equvilent of a massive earthquake. And due to the things i've been reading about the construction problems of buildings in South Korea, there are still major buildings that have been built that would fall down with little effort from what i had read and gleaned from talkign with the South Korean student.

it doesn't sound like it'd be so destructive... but iif done the right way, it'd be really nasty and it could at first look like a natural disaster.

[stormlion1]

In the Novel Red Phoenix there was a trick they used to drill several holes in rock down a few feet, fill it with water till it was at the top then just watch it. When using explosives underground the vibrations caused the water to jump out of the hole or just be disturbed if further away. Not sure how accurate that would be, but a quick and dirty way to find tunnels being built in rock.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Red Phoenix is a great novel - if a bit dated - about a potential Korean War. I'd love to read an "updated" version...I think the NKs would find themselves in a very bad position facing divisions of K1A1s and K1A2s, and K2 tanks.