North Korea
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This is a test for Trump.
North Korea has just fired two unidentified projectiles — a provocative move that just so happens to come right as National Security Adviser (and longtime North Korea foe) John Bolton is visiting South Korea.
The launches, which took place early Thursday morning, Korean time, came from the city of Wonsan on North Korea’s east coast, according to South Korea’s joint chiefs of staff. The projectiles flew approximately 265 miles and splashed down in the Sea of Japan.
No other information is known at the moment. An unnamed defense official told CNN that the shot weapon was a short-range missile, but there’s no official confirmation of that yet.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/24/politics/north-korea-projectile/
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My guess is a potato gun.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Worst idea, ever. To see how that dead-man system could malfunction, you should watch Dr Strangelove or The Terminator movies. I will spoil the movie endings: Most of humanity dies in a nuclear war. That's fiction, but if a real dead-man system was actually built, fiction would become reality and we all die, accidentally, in a worldwide suicide machine.
Originally posted by 1kiki:
6) I'd set up a dead-man system of retaliation.
Ummmmm... yeah.
Imma gonna have to put this one in the column of the extremely rare instances where Second and I are in complete agreement.
I don't trust a computer to make phone calls for me.
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Trump is letting Kim Jong Un do almost anything he wants:
Missile tests. Building provocative submarines. It’s all good.
In just the past week, North Korea has unveiled a brand new submarine that could potentially launch nuclear weapons and tested two short-range missiles that gravely threaten US allies South Korea and Japan.
The casual observer might understandably expect President Donald “fire and fury” Trump and his hawkish administration to respond forcefully to these new provocations. But the opposite has happened: They’re taking the barrage with a degree of calm virtually unseen before from this administration.
In fact, they’re actively downplaying — and in some cases even defending — North Korea’s actions.
For instance, on Thursday, Fox News’s Brett Baier asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about Kim showing off his shiny new (and potentially extremely deadly) submarine and whether that kind of thing makes it harder to reach a deal with North Korea.
Pompeo’s response was stunning: “I went to a defense facility,” he said flatly. “We all go look at our militaries, and we all take pictures of them.”
America’s top diplomat equating his own routine visits to US military sites with a North Korean dictator posing for propaganda photos meant to send threatening signals to Washington and its allies is . . . unusual, to say the least.
Hours later, Trump expressed similar sentiments, telling Fox News’s Sean Hannity that Kim’s missile tests didn’t worry him at all. “They haven’t done nuclear testing, they really haven’t tested missiles other than, you know, smaller ones, which is something that lots [of countries] test,” he said.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the US Defense Intelligence Agency assesses that North Korea may have produced 12 nuclear weapons since Trump and Kim first shook hands in Singapore last year. That, added to the new potentially nuclear-launching submarine and further-tested missiles, means Kim has a greater arsenal at his disposal now than when his diplomacy with Trump started.
www.vox.com/2019/7/26/8931670/trump-north-korea-misisle-submarine-pomp
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lol
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Trump on Friday played down North Korea’s latest launch of short-range ballistic missiles, calling them “very standard”. It is not standard. All ballistic missile tests by North Korea are banned by U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Trump is keen to hold up his engagement with North Korea as a foreign policy success ahead of his 2020 reelection bid.
Analysts said Trump appeared too desperate to get a deal, even at the expense of raising the risks posed to U.S. allies Japan and Korea, which are both within range of Kim’s short-range missiles, as are tens of thousands of U.S. troops based in North Asia.
www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-usa-trump/flaws-seen-in
-trumps-calm-response-to-north-korean-missile-launches-idUSKCN1UL2M0
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Originally posted by THGRRI:
North Korea looks to it's ally Putin. They've seen him threaten Nukes many times
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Trump dismisses North Korea missile tests. Experts say he's giving Kim regime a 'free pass'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/08/02/north-korea-if-tr
ump-wont-condemn-missile-tests-kim-may-escalate/1894476001/
It's astounding how the trolls here, i.e. sig kiki jsf rappy and others were wrong about everything. I mean everything. These are the assholes who get in line when Trump says, don't believe what you see but instead what I say.
Here's a prediction. These same trolls and Trump will blame everyone else when Trump is no longer in office for all their lies and failures. Those too will be lies.
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N.Korea's Kim says missile launches are warning to U.S., S.Korea over drill -KCNA
Kim said the military action was "an occasion to send an adequate warning to the joint military drill now underway by the U.S. and south Korean authorities," according to KCNA.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nkoreas-kim-says-missile-launches
-are-warning-to-us-skorea-over-drill-kcna/ar-AAFqY0o?ocid=spartandhp
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N. Korea says no inter-Korean talks unless S. Korea, U.S. end military drills
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/n-korea-says-no-inter-korean-talk
s-unless-s-korea-us-end-military-drills/ar-AAFD6GB?ocid=spartandhp
No worries, he did send grand wizard Trump a nice letter.
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