Category: North Korea

It seems that Fatty Kim da T’ird  is getting too froggy for Pres. Trump, who is increasing efforts to cut off his cash supply/flow ASAP, by sending US Ambassador Joseph Yun to SEAsia to get some cooperation from those countries in cutting off their aid to the tinpot dictator while Secy/State Rex Tillerson asks for global action to stifle the little twerp.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/829457/north-korea-donald-trump-kim-jong-un-usa-missile-sanctions-money-finance-china

Embedded in the article are two links to other articles regarding JoyBoy’s attempts to weaponise diseases, and the USA’s increase of cash for missile defense against the Norks.

There’s also a link to a brief article about Boris Johnson’s reaction to the Norks. He wants to ‘make them see sense’.  http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/829535/North-Korea-Kim-Jong-un-Boris-Johnson-Syria-Assad-EU-sanctions

That’s a giggle: make a psychotic megalomaniac see some sense? Okay, sure, Boris. I know you mean well, but I’m stuck over here in Reality Land. Li’l Kim will tell you ‘Sense? Okay, Brit guy.’ and wait until your back is turned, then plunge that blade of his deep into your back. (Boris is now the UK’s Foreign Secretary.)

Meantime, Angela Merkel is ‘stunned’ by Brexit, and more determined than ever to make the EU work. http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/829523/Angela-Merkel-Brexit-European-Union-Germany-France-Emmanuel-Macron-Theresa-May

She’s quite sure that ‘the decades of peace and stability would not have been possible without the European Union’.

Angela, you ignoramus, the Common Market (shortly thereafter known as the EEC) was formed in 1957.  It was not the EU. Its purpose was to regulate development of nuclear power and trade relations in Europe. It was not meant to create a ‘One Europe’ nation. That’s what Hitler wanted, but he used tanks and infantry and missiles to try to do that, and he failed. The Common Market worked a whole lot better.

The European Union did not exist until 1993, following ratification of the Maastricht Treaty. You need to bone up on history a little bit… no, bone up a LOT. Almost all of what’s wrong with Europe now is your complete lack of understanding anything about Europe, at all. Thanks to you and your imbecilic ideas, people in Germany are going without heat and electricity because they can’t afford it any more, and the entire European continent is awash in Very Bad Guys who want to slaughter you in your sleep, among many, many other things.

In other news, Venezuela is still imploding. Not sure how long before it becomes a true black hole in the physics sense, but it’s close.

And Santiago, Chile reports an early snowfall and some serious cold moving in, which means that the ski resorts will probably open early. Chile has become a mecca for ski bums and other snow-loving peeps, as has New Zealand. I’m waiting for someone to propose a cross-country ski race on  Larsen C, that big chunk of ice that finally cut loose from the Antarctic peninsula.

And it looks like more rain in my kingdom by Tuesday. My sunflowers look good.  Y’all have a good week.

Despite the recent allegations that the Russians were attempting to corrupt voting software at a specific company (and failed), they are not the world’s best hackers or cyber attackers, at all.

No, that dubious honor belongs entirely to the Norks.  Per the article in Foreign Policy’s most recent edition, you barely even need a computer to do what the Norks do to get what they want. http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/05/north-korea-proves-you-barely-need-computers-to-win-a-cyberwar/

To quote the authors (Moore and Corrado) of that article: “Evidence is mounting that the perpetrator of last month’s WannaCry cyberattack that paralyzed 300,000 computers in 150 countries was North Korea’s hacker army, a highly sophisticated network of hackers trained to compromise foreign militaries, corrupt network systems, and conduct cyberheists of financial institutions. It may seem strange that a country as underdeveloped as North Korea has decided to invest its meager resources in such high-tech capabilities. It shouldn’t. Cyberspace has long been North Korea’s preferred battlefield precisely because of its own developmental weaknesses.”

They go on to say that Norkiland uses the Chinese method of finding the best candidates to be hackers, termed ‘a thousand grains of sand’.  This was also the Soviet method for winning in Olympic sports.

In 1986, North Korea hired 25 Russian instructors in cybernetics (computer science, to the uninformed) and subsequently began identifying grade school-level children to train in fine art of hack attacks.  There are at least 5,900 skilled cyber hackers working for the Nork government on nothing else.

Norkiland is also the prime suspect in the recent theft of $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City.

They are, in fact, suspects in such things as a 2003 major power outage in the US, and may even be the source of the fake FBI Moneypak ransomware virus which hit a lot of people starting in 2012, including me. That virus cost me a pretty penny to have it removed from my computer, and yes, I did call the FBI and yell at them about it. They were quite humble and told me to report it, which I did. But it’s still going on, attacking Androids and other platforms. If the Norks were not behind it, I’d be surprised.

Per this Telegraph article, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-northkorea-exclusive-idUSKCN18H020  Norkiland is also the suspect in shutting down South Korea’s reactor in 2014. Of course, the Norks emphatically deny that.

There are apparently 11,000 domains with various forms of scareware and ransomware in existence, but if you have a small army of dedicated cyber pirates at your command in your very supremely ultra-secret Unit 180, the number of domains they have to monitor is less than two apiece.

The Norks are better at cyber and malware attacks than they are at arms and armor, although that is finding its feet. For this reason alone, my response to people who screech ‘the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming!”**  is ‘Look further east.’ The Norks are more likely to rule the world through their skilled cyber hackers than by missile attacks on their neighbors. If any country can hack the US voting system, it’s the Norks. If they can hack banks, they can also hack our defense system. If that doesn’t scare you, you’re numb to reality.

On a final note,  I will add that since Fatty Kim da T’ird, aka NDtBF, has this fascination with things that go ‘BOOM!’, he may not view hack attacks as the best thing since sliced bread for his purposes.

He’s wrong. Things that go ‘BOOM!’ can backfire on you. He should heed what Daddy Kim did: use the back door. His neighbors and US have Bigger Booms than his.

**See the movie. It’s a hoot.

There is much to be said about keeping a close eye on your neighbor, especially if you suspect that he’s got a screw loose.

In the continuing story of the hermit kingdom known as North Korea, NDtBF continues to make threats against his neighbors, including Japan, and the USofA, both verbally and by launching missiles. This most recent tantrum of his has to do with our successful anti-missile missile test in the Sea of Japan.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/812889/North-Korea-USA-live-updates-latest-news-Kim-Jong-un-Donald-Trump-missiles-war-sanctions

Those war exercises we’re engaging in, which we do on a periodic basis anyway, are upsetting his apple cart.  There’s a nice photo of US and Japanese bird farms engaged in exercises in the slide show in the attached article.

Per the Express/UK article, Norkiland – meaning Fatty Kim da T’ird – has rejected the latest sanction from the UN and is hellbent on developing its nuclear program.

El Supremo Kim Abondanzaa is also making the Russians nervous, per Deputy Defense Minister Fomin. He considers the missile tests to be a direct threat to Russia. They’re willing to sell armored tracked vehicles to him, but they don’t want to have to deal with his antics, any more than anyone else does.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/06/04/russia-says-north-koreas-nukes-are-direct-threat.html

An even bigger issue is that Japan is now holding evacuation drills because of Lord Satsquaasher’s missile tests.

http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/north-korea-missile-tests-japan-holds-evacuation-drills/news-story/29de18dc4ae45a84c15c5323b29aa977

It’s bad enough that the nation of Japan is still rebuilding after the 2011 earthquake. The school kids have been doing earthquake drills since Day One. But that was Mother Nature moving the furniture around. Not much you can do about it, and Japan has done a fine job of recovery in the areas of Honshu that were so devastated.

But this? This Inglorious Fat Little Basterd aiming a rocket at Japan as a test under the pretense that he’s being threatened by Whoosies and Whatsises is not just unacceptable, it’s ridiculous.

Seriously, if he’s making the Russians nervous and pissing off the Chinese, he is not following in Daddy Kim’s footsteps, nor in Grandpa Kim’s, either, and he won’t get the big 150-foot copper-colored statue in Pyongyang Square.

Someone please tell me the little bugger hasn’t reproduced yet.

Not to spoil your morning coffee break or anything but NDtBF a/k/a Fatty Kim da T’ird has gone and tested another missile, just to impress us that he means bidness.

Per the article, with the most recent test launch by Mr. No-Dongatall, the G7 have agreed to increase sanctions against the real-world version of Duloc.  Lord Sitsquaad the Squat is shown in a screen shot of a Nork newspaper in the linked article watching his latest missile, what appears to be a Hwasong-12 (Mars-12) strategic ballistic rocket, but could have been a Pukguksong or a Pukkuksong. I can’t keep their music titles straight any more.

Note that General Ri and other nukey-birds are present in most of those photos with The Glorious Leader & Cheesesampler Supreme. The Nork Nukers are the three men believed to be the top officials in the country’s rapidly accelerating missile program. They are Ri Pyong Chol, a former top air force general; Kim Jong Sik, a veteran rocket scientist; and Jang Chang Ha, the head of the Academy of National Defence Science, a weapons development and procurement center.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/810236/north-korea-latest-news-live-donald-trump-kim-jong-un-usa-missile-nuclear-war

Japan’s Prime Minister Abe is taking it seriously.  At the G7 Summit held in Sicily this past week, he said that the threat has reached a new stage. He has a bit more to worry about than we do, since most of those missiles have been aimed across the Sea of Japan, right at Japan, specifically at Honshu Island, which suffered massive, devastating damage from the quake and horrendous tidal wave in March 2011. The US sent Japan a THAAD system a few weeks ago. China objected to it, but from the most recent reports I’ve seen, China is getting fed up with its squatty neighbor to the south.

Last week, I reported that the Nork government (meaning NDtBF) had started a ferry service to Vladivostok, which followed on the heels of news that a shipment of tracked armored vehicles and artillery had been transported to Vladivostok. No coincidence there. None at all. Nope.

On our side of the fence, USS Nimitz will be joining USS Ronald Regan and USS Carl Vinson, now at station near the Korean peninsula. I gather from the Express/UK article that this will be a live fire exercise opportunity to test our ability to shoot down an ICBM.  That should upset Norkiland’s wine and cheese cart a little bit.

I’ve said this before: I may point and giggle, but when a nutball makes poisonous toys and throws them at his neighbors, I still take it seriously. If he shows up in my neighborhood, I’m getting out the fly swatter and hornet spray.

Stay tuned.

NDtBF sends photos of his latest rocket science experiment. The missile reached an altitude of 347 miles and a distance of 310 miles. This comes just days after  Pyongyang fired a missile that landed in the sea near Russia after flying 490 miles, reaching an altitude of more than 2,000km (1,240 miles), nothing to sneeze at, in my view. He is rapidly advancing his goals and letting us know about it.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/807592/north-korea-latest-news-missile-test-launch-united-states-ww3

Our dear leader Kim Jong-un has said he is really happy to see real-time earth photos that were sequentially taken by the camera on the ballistic missile from the atmosphere

– Rodong Sinmun official daily newspaper

The trajectory of the medium-range missile had it aimed straight across the waters toward the west coast of Japan’s northern island, which has bad enough memories of the 2011 quake that rattled the entire Pacific plate.

He’s also threatening Pres. Trump with war, but he does that all the time.

I’m waiting for his next subterranean nuclear explosion announcement, but the seismic network in place to detect those things will probably tell us about it before he does.