{"id":65506,"date":"2016-04-30T07:45:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T11:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65506"},"modified":"2016-04-29T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T20:50:10","slug":"more-ineffectual-sabre-rattling-by-lil-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65506","title":{"rendered":"More Ineffectual &#8220;Sabre-Rattling&#8221; by Lil&#8217; Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the results of the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61605\">Dork of NorK\u2019<\/a> s <\/em>latest episode of sabre-rattling have been released.\u00a0 And it again looks like the \u201cman\u201d is probably going to need to have a public execution or two to soothe his injured feelings.<\/p>\n<p>Three days ago, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/north-korean-dictator-kim-jong-un-ill-eating-emmental-cheese-report-article-1.1945468\">Emmentaler-boi\u2019s<\/a><\/em> missile minions conducted two tests of the Musudan \u2013 North Korea\u2019s new IRBM, likely the \u201cbig guy\u2019s\u201d second favorite missile after the one that&#8217;s his namesake (more about that later).\u00a0 Intelligence reports regarding these tests have now been made public.<\/p>\n<p>The results?\u00a0 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2016\/04\/28\/suspected-mid-range-north-korean-missile-crashes-upon-launch-seoul-says.html\">Both missiles apparently blew up shortly after launch<\/a><\/em>..<\/p>\n<p>Oopsie.<\/p>\n<p>This makes the number of successful Musudan by Lil\u2019 Kim\u2019s missile program precisely <em>zero<\/em>.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure that\u2019s not exactly what the \u201cbig guy\u201d wanted to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Further:\u00a0 results from recent testing of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29502\">ND:tBF<\/a>\u2019s<\/em> favorite (and namesake) missile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rodong-1\"><em>No Dong<\/em><\/a>, haven\u2019t been much better.\u00a0 One test of the Scud-C-derived No Dong held last month was similarly unsuccessful, with that missile also exploding after launch.\u00a0 (A\u00a0 second No Dong test last month was apparently successful.)<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s 1 for 5 for the last 5 major NorK missile tests.\u00a0 My guess is that this means there will be some significant opportunities for \u201cupward mobility\u201d within the NorK missile program in the near-term future.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on how <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61263\">Fatboy Kim<\/a><\/em> will calm his massive bulk after these latest two rather spectacular failures.\u00a0 While a public execution or several is probably a given, the method to be used is anyone\u2019s guess.\u00a0 But it\u2019s a good bet it will be gruesome and novel.<\/p>\n<p>And he can always down a few more kilograms of Emmentaler to make himself feel better.\u00a0 What does he care if it means a few of his peasant comrades will have to starve for weeks in order to come up with the funds to import same?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the results of the Dork of NorK\u2019 s latest episode of sabre-rattling have been released.\u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"More Ineffectual &#8220;Sabre-Rattling&#8221; by Lil&#8217; Kim\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65506\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Ineffectual &#8220;Sabre-Rattling&#8221; by Lil&#8217; Kim<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}