Category: North Korea

The Norks have now gone and done it: launched a missile yesterday that survived re-entry before splashdown in the Sea of Japan.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/20/northkorea-missile-passes-re-entry-test-breakthrough-nuclear/

Per the following UK Express update early this morning our time, “Reports are emerging from North Korea that a ballistic missile launched on May 14 successfully re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere”.  http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/806746/North-Korea-USA-live-latest-news-updates-Kim-Jong-un-Donald-Trump-war-missile-test-WW3

If this is true, this changes things radically.  According to the report, it was a KN-17, which is liquid-fueled instead of solid-fueled. That makes it easier to spot on the launch pad because the solid fuel rockets don’t require lengthy fueling time.

I appreciate SecDef Mattis’s rather reserved response.

“We are going to continue to work the issue,” Mattis said, according to Reuters. “If this goes to a military solution, it’s going to be tragic on an unbelievable scale. So our effort is to work with the U.N., work with China, work with Japan, work with South Korea to try to find a way out of this situation.”

But the real question remains: what is to be done about Fatty Kim da T’ird and  his experiments in chemistry and rocket science?  He has his neighbors quite worried, although he hasn’t achieved the real ICBM capacity that the Cold War offered.  If he continues down this road without let or hindrance, there is no saying that he cannot have that capability.

There are, likewise, rumors that he has people working on nerve agents.  Owing to his association with the sarin-related death of his half-brother, nothing surprises me less.

How much real time warning will anyone have if he lets fly with either a nuke-bearing missile or one with a gas canister payload?

The problem is that he needs to be put on a choke chain and muzzled, period. If, as has been speculated, Norkiland was behind the WannaCry spyware lockout a week or so ago, and likewise, if the Norks were responsible for filching $81 million from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in March this year, the only thing he is after is cash to buy chemicals and parts and equipment for his rocket science experiments. It’s not going into food for his people, because he doesn’t give a crap about them.

Money, and of course, being the center of attention of Russia, China and the USA are what he lives for.  It’s been 64 years since the truce stopped the Korean War and locked the door for anyone unlucky enough to be left behind in that hellhole created by his grandpa. There is no way to tell how many Koreans have been slaughtered by the Nork regime in that interval.

But if he’s the legitimate ruler of Norkiland, we can’t really compare him to Lord Farquaad, can we?

It seems that Fatty Kim da T’ird, a/k/a NDtBF, is getting more and more annoyed that we aren’t paying enough attention to him.

First, he sends a butthurt letter to Congress complaining about it.

Now he’s got Seattle, WA, upset.  As you know already, Seattle is the home of Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing (which is considering moving everything to Illinois).  But because the Cold War ended before some of you were born, Seattle is also the babysitter for 1,300 nuclear warheads, per this AOL article. I’m trying to remember if there was a SAC base there in the long ago, when I lived 10 miles from a Soviet ICBM target city.

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/05/17/seattle-prepares-nuclear-attack-north-korea/22096104/

Washington State has a law that prevents planning for a nuclear attack. You can plan for evacuation, but in this day and age, do we really need it? However, despite its inland location, Seattle considers itself to be a prime target for the Cheeseslayer’s nuclear missiles (which haven’t worked so far), and there is legislation on the books to change the ‘no planning’ law to ‘plan for’, because one state legislator says it’s ‘silly’ to not plan for it.

Note that, according to this Express/UK article, down the page, the Chubster fired off another ballistic missile on Sunday. Per his own announcement, it’s capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/805758/North-Korea-USA-live-latest-news-updates-Kim-Jong-un-missile-test-Donald-Trump-war

China has also entered into this boiling turmoil by lodging complaints against the US in regard to penalties on Chinese and Iranian figures. The fact that ‘figures’ is not defined could mean anything.

Since we’re doing business with China on a large scale, this needs to be addressed. It’s more important than two scoops of ice cream, isn’t it? Oh, sorry – I forgot that our media report on nothing and make a mountain out of a dimple in a sandbox.

My concern is that Kim Nodong-at-all is getting his shorts in a bunch over the lack of attention from the US, specifically. There is some suspicion that Norkiland was behind the WannaCry ransomware attack last week. The NYT has an article discussing the possibility that Norkiland was involved in the cyberhacking through sleeper cells. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/world/asia/north-korea-cyber-sleeper-cells-ransomware.html?_r=0

Yesterday, Norkiland launched a ferry service to Vladivostok, to try to develop economic cooperation between Russia and the Norks.

There’s a good timeline of Nork-related activities listed in the Express/UK article, events which are not being reported in most of the US media outlets, to their shame. It appears that how much ice cream one person gets, or what kind of salad dressing, is more important than events underway in the real world.

If you have time to read all of this, you probably have too much time on your hands. But if you need a good laugh, have at it.

First of all, Fatty Kim da T’ird, aka NDtBF, wants the US to turn over all would-be assassins who have plans to bump him off.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/11/north-korea-demands-that-the-u-s-hand-over-would-be-assassins-of-kim-jong-un/?utm_term=.98883d21b791

Fatboy the Cheeseslayer has decided, in his wisdom, that the CIA and South Korea’s NIS want to poison him. Well, okay, but that was supposed to happen in 2014 and he’s still here, so either he’s having another episode of paranoid delusions, or he just isn’t getting enough attention from us lately. Since there were no specifics offered, and the potential assassin was ID’d only by his last name, which happens to be Kim, maybe the BF was frightened by his own image in the mirror. Or maybe it talked back to him.

Moving on, when Qian Qichen, China’s long-time ambassador to Norkiland, died on Tuesday at the age of 89, it ended a very long chapter in China’s diplomatic relations with the hermit kingdom and other countries. In 1992, Qian gave Norkiland, then under Kim Il-Sung (Daddy Kim) the bad news that China was establishing diplomatic relations with South Korea.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2094007/when-late-diplomat-qian-qichen-had-give-north-koreas

Considering that subsequent to that, the North fired rockets at that island during a joint war games exercise between the US military and South Korea, it must have been annoying to realize that the non-productive North, with a political system that simply sucks dry the only country that will deal with it at all was being put on the back burner in favor of a country (South Korea) or countries (e.g., the USA)  that could provide relatively lucrative trade agreements and help bump up the Chinese economy. Pyongyang saw the move as a betrayal, despite Qian’s assurances that relations would remain the same.

And finally, Fatty Kim da T’ird has warned that hundreds of millions of us in the US of A will die if he can’t have his way.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/803077/north-korea-kim-jong-un-hundreds-of-million-in-us-die-war-erupts-nuclear-donald-trump

From what the linked article says, the threat is based on routine evacuation drills currently underway in the South.  There is confirmation that NDtBF has plans for a sixth nuke test, and I would like to remind skeptics that his last test, last year, (#5) had an estimated yield of 20 to 30 kilotons, per USGS seismic readings. The Hiroshima bomb (Little Boy) was supposed to be a 10 to 15 kiloton bomb, so the Cheeseslayer is getting up there in his efforts. Yes, I am keeping an eye out for odd seismic readings coming from the underground test area.  Unfortunately, the delivery system Fatty Kim da T’ird is trying to pony up hasn’t worked out quite as well as he’d hoped it would, which was probably behind his gas explosions on the 300-tank beach scene last week. I did not know that kim chi had that effect on people.

I can only hope that any Nork missile built makes landfall on the shores of LaLa Land, because my radishes finally came up and I’d like to harvest them. But if you have concerns about the possibility of a nuke hitting some place near you, now would be a good time to get the 10-year stored seed packs, the complete water filtration system, the solar-crank powered AM/FM/shortwave camper radio with a flashlight and siren, and that nice set of fishing tackle you were looking at in the catalogs over the winter. And stock up on bolts for the crossbows, too, and get the axes sharpened, in case you need to split firewood.

 

If only it could just go further away. Yes, it’s true: Fatty Kim da T’ird, aka NDtBF, wants to take out the USS Carl Vinson.  He didn’t say the entire strike force, just that one ship.  Does the word ‘smite’ come into play here?

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/23/north-korea-says-ready-to-strike-u-s-aircraft-carrier.html

The Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (Navy) has sent two of its destroyers, Samidara and Ashigara, to join the US Navy in exercises in the East China Sea.  Some members of the Japanese Parliament want PM Abe to acquire strike defense weapons that could take down whatever Norkiland throws at it.  Pres. Trump wants the Chinese to do more to squelch NDtBF’s antics.  I haven’t seen any more about their troop movement to the Nork/Chinese border since last week, but I’m watching.

I do take that chubby, squawking pipsqueak attention hog seriously, but at times, his antics are like watching the Crazy 88 in ‘Kill Bill’ try to take out The Bride. You just want to smack the little twerp with the katana and send him home to his mama. I may spend some time today watching that silly movie, just for a good laugh.

There’s also a current article in the sidebar about a US citizen being detained by the government of the late Kim Jong-Il. Either the reporter needs more caffeine in his double whipped soy latte, or he’s unaware of the regime change and thinks it’s still 1999. Or maybe he just didn’t get the funeral notice.