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Category: North Korea

  • More News from Norkiland…

    … and I guess we’d better take Fatty Kim da T’ird (aka ND: tBF) seriously.  Per this article from BBC News, the Norks have launched four (4) ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Sunday evening at 22:36GMT, or whatever your time zone is.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39175704

    No, this is not a good thing.  They were launched from Tongchang-ri near the northern Nork border and went about 1,000 KM (620 miles) before dropping into the ocean. There’s a map with the article, and I will update this if there is anything new on Monday.  He seems to be improving his missile systems exponentially.

    It’s obvious Fatty Kim da T’ird wants to be the Big Cheese in the koi pond, but he’s making his neighbors to the South quite nervous, never mind what he’s doing to the Japanese who are certainly not his enemy.  Someone needs to sew his ass shut, in my opinion.

    His dad must be so proud.

     

  • Malaysian police; Kim Jong Nam was murdered with VX toxin

    Malaysian police; Kim Jong Nam was murdered with VX toxin

    The half brother of the North Korean Leader, NDtBF, was murdered in the Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia airport while he was waiting for a flight home to Macau. Two women rubbed a toxic substance on his face, the substance, according to the Malaysian police, was VX nerve agent.

    After the announcement that VX was to blame, The Associated Press asked Malaysia’s Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar in a text message whether decontamination would take place. He responded, “We are doing it now.”

    He later said police were arranging for the atomic energy agency to decontaminate the airport and “sweep all locations which we knew that the suspects went to.”

    Asked if people should avoid the airport because of fears of contamination, Khalid said, “No. No. No. But I don’t know. I am not the expert.”

    […]

    VX nerve agent was detected on Kim’s eyes and face, Khalid said earlier in a written statement, citing a preliminary report from the country’s Center for Chemical Weapons Analysis

    Nice.

    According to the UK’s Sun, one of the women, 28-year old Doan Thi Huong, was a Vietnamese “entertainment outlet employee”;

    The other woman was Indonesian Siti Aisyah, a spa masseuse;

    According to the police, one of the women was seen vomiting after the attack – possibly a reaction to consumption of the VX nerve agent.

  • Latest News From Norkiland (Updated)

    It seems that Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother of Fatty Kim da T’ird, has been killed by two Norkish women assassins at an airport  in Malaysia. One of those women is currently being held for questioning by the local polizei.

    The Norks have a long history off attempts to assassinate people they perceive as targets, including Park Chung-Hee, the then-president of South Korea in 1968. In fact, more than 90 South Koreans were killed in that attempt, showing us that such diplomacy is not exactly a recipient-friendly style.

    There are several other incidents  related in this story http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38974455 about this most recent attempt, including an attempted assassination of Pres. Chun Doo-Hwan during a visit to Burma in1983. His vehicle was delayed in traffic, which saved his life, but seventeen South Korean officials and 7 Burmese nationals were killed in this attempt.

    The Norks will also engage in revenge killings if some important Nork decides to defect, as happened in 1997.  When Hwang Jang-yop, a senior politician, defected to South Korea in 1997, another prominent defector, Yi Han-yong, was shot in the head by suspected North Korean assassins. He was the nephew of Song Hye-rim, who is Kim Jong-nam’s mother.  Loose connection? I think not!

    It appears that this recent murder of one of Fatty Kim da T’ird’s many half-brothers is simply following in the footsteps of Daddy Kim Jong-Il and Grandpa Kim Il-Sung.

    Do we have anything to worry about over here? Kind of.

    Norkiland successfully launched a ballistic missile last week. The Pukguksong-2 missile (oh, quit laughing!) is analysed to have a range of 750 to 1,800 miles, not quite far enough to get to California where it might improve the real estate somewhat, but enough to be a nuisance. I did try to translate that name and the computer started snorting with laughter at me.   http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/14/north-korea-missile-threat-could-prove-trumps-first-big-foreign-test.html

    But it does have enough range to reach South Korea and Japan, and U.S. bases in both locations where 80,000++ US troops are stationed. Also, it’s a solid-fuel rocket, not a liquid fuel, which means that it doesn’t require fueling on the launch pad.

    Joking aside, picking a quarrel with any country that already has the technology in place that you are seeking, any country that can flatten yours into oblivion, is a bad idea. That’s why the Cold War worked.  It was a Mexican standoff.

    I said a while back that the Norks are learning as they go. So are the Iranians, who also launched a missile successfully last week. Their favorite target is Israel, but the Israelis have reasonably good aim and can shoot down incoming Scuds. (Do we still have those Scud-killers?)

    The Chinese are not particularly happy about Fatty Kim da T’ird’s adventures in rocket science, and like us, the Israelis, the Russians and the French, Pakistanis and Indians, the Chinese have nuclear capability.

    If Fatty Kim da T’ird and Iran want a war, they should be careful what they wish for.

    UPDATE: This becomes more and more odd.

    A third person has been apprehended in the death of Fatty Kim da T’ird’s half-brother Kim Jong-nam. The article says that the person detained is a boyfriend of the Korean woman involved in the murder of Kim Jong-nam.  One of the two female assailants was a Vietnamese woman from Nam Dinh, VN.

    North Korea denies any involvement in the matter.  There was no report related to Kim Jong-nam’s death on Nork News yesterday.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-malaysia-kim-idUSKBN15V06K

    N.B.:  For anyone who thinks a nuclear explosion produces a glass parking lot, it does not. Soil from the impact site is drawn up into the explosion cloud and vaporized, and falls as liquid droplets called trinitite or Almogordo glass. They solidify as rocklike or dumbbell shapes. They are mildly radioactive, but safe to handle, and you can find some on e-bay if you want to waste money. The original Trinity site has been bulldozed over and the stuff is buried now.  Trinitite is similar to Libyan desert glass, which is thought to be the soil liquefied by a meteoric impact and scattered into the desert as liquid, solidifying in chunks as it was expelled from the impact.

  • News from Norkiland

    Back in September, I reported that the Norks had succeeded in an underground nuke test that yielded 20 to 30 kilotons, which is up to three times the explosive impact of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.  The detonation generated a 5.3 seismic reading, per the USGS, and yes, a quake near Punggye-ri, the underground test site.

    Subsequent to that, a high-profile North Korean official Thae Yong Ho defected to the South in London and has been supporting information filtering out of that not-so-secret gulag on the other side of the DMZ.

    More disturbing news is coming out of North Korea now that the head of Norkiland’s secret police, Kim Won Hong, has been dismissed by Fatty Kim da T’ird, a/k/a ND:tBF. This was confirmed by South Korea’s Unification Ministry.  ‘Dismissed’ is a polite word for prison candidate.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-kim-idUSKBN15I095

    Well, Fatty Kim da T’ird does like to have people executed for not standing up straight at parades, so this is not really a surprise.

    Perhaps we need to view Norkiland with a less jaundiced eye and instead, keep a weather eye on that hidebound bunch. The South may laugh at them but they haven’t asked us to leave yet, have they? No, they haven’t. In fact, they seemed to be happy to have SecDEF Mad Dog there for a visit a few weeks ago.

    And we must not forget or sneer at their experiments with nuclear weapons, and the fact that they are seriously working to produce and launch missiles with nuclear warheads attached.

    However, in the Norks’ one-sided race to get ICBM nukes on the launch pad, which requires enormous incentive to achieve, you have to start wondering what Kim Won Hong’s offenses actually were, and whether or not these purges and executions are doing less to scare people than they do to piss them off.

    Revolutions against tyrants have been started with less incentive

  • News from Norkiland: Mad Dog Pays a Visit

    Maybe I’m easily impressed, but it seems to me that the new administration in the White House got to work right away, with less ‘look at me’ than we’ve seen in a while.

    This includes SecDef Mattis’s putting the Norks On Notice to mind their P’s, Q’s, and nukes.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-usa-mattis-idUSKBN15I060

    From the article:  ‘ “Any attack on the United States, or our allies, will be defeated, and any use of nuclear weapons would be met with a response that would be effective and overwhelming,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said at South Korea’s defense ministry, at the end of a two-day visit.’

    ‘Mattis’ remarks come amid concern that North Korea could be readying to test a new ballistic missile, in what could be an early challenge for Trump’s administration.’

    This does come hard on the heels of the  South’s now-former President Park being fired for corruption.  If GEN Mattis is there in Norkiland, I do hope he pulls a Reagan and goes to visit the DMZ to blow some kisses at the Nork soldiers, while he’s there.

    Yes, I do know that’s a Navy ship, the USS Mason, but I don’t have a photo of SecDef Mattis handy.

  • Someone Escaped Norkiland?

    I found this article from the BBC’s newsfeed this morning from Norkiland. Occasionally, one of the more sane people there manages to escape.

     

    This is an interview with one of NDtBF’s higher ups, whose family is probably either dead or digging a hole in the ground so that they can have a place to land when they’re shot.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38741078

    If he says the Norks will revolt against Fatty Kim da T’ird, I tend to take it with a grain of salt. There is probably a percentage that will, but from what I’ve seen, most of them are so embedded in that cult of personality worship that they make fans of the Kardasshats look like pikers.

  • North Korea plans ICBM capability

    North Korea plans ICBM capability

    Reuters reports that North Korea has been making advancements in their intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities that finally make them a credible threat to the Untied States;

    North Korea’s state media regularly threatens the United States with a nuclear strike, but before 2016 Pyongyang had been assumed to be a long way from being capable of doing so.

    “The bottom line is Pyongyang is much further along in their missile development than most people realize,” said Melissa Hanham, a senior research associate at the U.S.-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California.

    She said the North’s test in April of a large liquid-fuel engine that could propel an ICBM was a major development.

    “The liquid engine test was astounding,” Hanham said.

    “For years, we knew that North Korea had a Soviet R-27 missile engine design. They re-engineered the design of that engine to double its propulsion”.

    So that’s another big accomplishment for the Obama Administration. In our favor, they’ve only been successful at one launch in the last eight attempts, so we have that going for us.

  • Fatass Fuhrer’s Proxy Phallus Fails – Redux

    Remember about six weeks ago, when North Korea attempted to test-fire their new “Musudan” IRBM in honor of the 104th birthday of North Korea’s “eternal president”, Kim Il-Sung?  Remember that the test was reportedly a failure?

    Well, it appears that the “fine, stalwart engineers” in NorK-Land’s missile development program gave it another go again yesterday. And, like before:  the latest test was also a failure.

    I really would not want to be one of the folks on the Musudan’s design team – or someone assigned to the assembly team for this latest test, either.

    No word on who ND:tBF, AKA Fatboy Kim AKA the Dork of NorK AKA Ementaller-boi, will have executed this time around because of the failure.  There’s also no word what new and novel means of execution he’ll decree this time.  But you know it’s going to happen – he has to soothe his massive bulk’s irritated nerves somehow.

    And in the interim between now and the executions, I’m guessing he’ll be consuming many kilograms of Ementaller.