{"id":64725,"date":"2016-03-07T11:21:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T16:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64725"},"modified":"2016-03-07T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T16:23:28","slug":"norks-threaten-nuclear-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64725","title":{"rendered":"Norks threaten nuclear strike on DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> reports that the Hermit Kingdom is *yawn* threatening to nuke DC because of training exercises in South Korea involving 300,000 South Korean troops and 17,000 American troops. From NDtBF<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“If we push the buttons to annihilate the enemies even right now, all bases of provocations will be reduced to seas in flames and ashes in a moment,” the North’s statement said.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

North Korea’s bellicose rhetoric raises unease in Seoul and its U.S. ally, not least because of the huge number of troops and weaponry facing off along the world’s most heavily armed border, which is an hour’s drive from the South Korean capital of Seoul and its 10 million residents.<\/p>\n

The rival Koreas’ usual animosity occasionally erupts in bloody skirmishes \u2014 50 South Koreans were killed in attacks in 2010 that Seoul blames on the North \u2014 and there is always a worry about an escalation of violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ho-hum. It’s like that steady stream of emails I get from the other terrorists in Florida. Nuking DC wouldn’t be a great loss anyway. <\/p>\n

It’s not all fun and gaes for the troops in the exercise, either. Bobo sends us a link from the Watertown Daily Times<\/a> to whom troops from Fort Drum complained that they’re getting charged for meals they can’t eat during the exercise;<\/p>\n

In their letter, the deployed Fort Drum soldiers say that their ability to obtain meals at the dining facilities is unworkable, given the times that their aviation unit currently operates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout going into great detail, our typical day to day operations require our personnel to work odd hours,\u201d the soldiers\u2019 letter said.<\/p>\n

Sending soldiers to the dining facilities during their current operation hours \u201cwould disrupt operations to the point of mission failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The soldiers noted that the dining facility is 40 minutes each way from their work site by shuttle, making it essentially impossible to budget time to eat there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is safe to assume that a Soldier would be away from their place of duty for approximately two and a half hours, each meal, in a twelve hour work day,\u201d the soldiers wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More of the budget not being balanced on the back of the Defense Department, I guess. We probably shouldn’t expect that aviators can eat three MREs a day, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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