{"id":71005,"date":"2017-03-22T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71005"},"modified":"2017-03-23T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T13:38:08","slug":"this-mornings-news-from-norkiland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71005","title":{"rendered":"This Morning&#8217;s News from Norkiland (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70512\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kim-Jong-nam-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kim-Jong-nam-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Kim-Jong-nam.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The late Kim Jong-Nam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kim Jong-un is getting froggy. SoS Tillerson, during his recent visit to South Korea, indicated that China is not willing to clamp down on that small chunk of the Korean peninsula north of the DMZ line, despite the clear evidence that Fatty Kim da T\u2019ird is bound and determined to punch anyone within striking distance of his NoDongs. (Puns are intentional.) The US is now saying the policy of \u2018strategic patience\u2019 is over. Military action is possible.\u00a0 The real problem there is getting China\u2019s government to squelch the little bugger, but they\u2019re dragging their feet because of that border thingy of theirs. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-39297031\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-39297031<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meantime, South Korea has appealed to the World Trade Organization that China is treating South Korean companies unfairly. So, what\u2019s so new about that?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-39324536\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-39324536<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, we all know that the Norks are a not-quite-there version of the Keystone Cops, but only until they execute someone with an antiaircraft weapon when he pisses off Fatty Kim da T\u2019ird for some minor infringement of some kind like buttoning the coat on the left instead of on the right or sneezing during formation. Then they become the slavering, drooling, tailwagging hunchdogs of an uncivilized, vicious, bad tempered megalomaniac spoiled brat who had his own brother murdered. That&#8217;s his bro&#8217;s picture at the top. I think he still has a sister. If she had any brains at all, she\u2019d leave yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, Fatty Kim da T\u2019ird is bound and determined to have a war, period. We are being warned that we should expect another missile launch soon, possibly this week? Month? Year?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-exploring-range-of-new-measures-to-respond-to-north-korea\/2017\/03\/21\/de7f4f66-0e63-11e7-aa57-2ca1b05c41b8_story.html?ut\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-exploring-range-of-new-measures-to-respond-to-north-korea\/2017\/03\/21\/de7f4f66-0e63-11e7-aa57-2ca1b05c41b8_story.html?ut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I get it. Fatty Kim da T\u2019ird wants a war to prove his \u2018manhood\u2019 or something, right? My take on this? If he launches even one missile and it goes further than the Norkiland coast, launch one or two\u00a0THAADs to take it down, and at the same time, scramble a fighter squadron, bomb the living shit out of the Pueblo, and beat feet out of there. That\u2019s just to let the Inglorious Little Basterd know that we know that <em>he knows<\/em> that <em>we know that he knows<\/em> that we can do that.<\/p>\n<p>We could also target that 150-foot statue of Grandpa Kim, couldn\u2019t we? That hideous &#8220;Ode to Inglorious Basterdie&#8221; sticks out like a sore thumb. It shows up on Google maps.<\/p>\n<p>Fatty Kim da T\u2019ird should be careful what he wishes for. Used ice cream is never as good as the fresh kind.<\/p>\n<p>03-23-2017: this is an update to this post, an op-ed piece by Robert Gallucci, for the L.A. Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-gallucci-north-korea-icbm-missiles-tillerson-20170323-story.html\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-gallucci-north-korea-icbm-missiles-tillerson-20170323-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m surprised that the L.A. Times would present Mr. Gallucci\u2019s op-ed, since it takes a lot to surprise me, but it is worth your time to read it. I question his opinion that we are not anti-ICBM missile capable, because we have definitely moved on from the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century when the Minuteman missile was our best response.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Norks are now accusing Japan of spying on them, which may have something to do with Japan&#8217;s recent launch of a intelligence-gathering satellite. Ya think?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2017\/03\/23\/North-Korea-accuses-Japan-of-espionage\/7861490267869\/\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2017\/03\/23\/North-Korea-accuses-Japan-of-espionage\/7861490267869\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Jong-un is getting froggy. SoS Tillerson, during his recent visit to South Korea, indicated that &hellip; <a title=\"This Morning&#8217;s News from Norkiland (Updated)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71005\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Morning&#8217;s News from Norkiland (Updated)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71005","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}