North Korea
Do We Need Battleships Again?
Norkiland has been rather quiet lately, until Fatty Kim da T’ird decided to get some attention for himself by letting the world know that he’s afraid of US Navy battleships. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/china-and-north-koreas-worst-fear-us-navy-starts-building-new-battleships-46277 From the article: In World War II, the Japanese super-battleships Yamato and Musashi each mounted nine 18.1-inch guns, the largest naval guns ever deployed, but they never sank […]
Happiness Is a Ballistic Missile Downrange
North Korea has fired off two missiles as discussions between DTrump and ND:tBF end for now. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/09/09/north-korea-says-its-willing-to-resume-nuke-talks-with-us/ From the article: U.S. President Donald Trump called North Korea’s announcement “interesting.” “We’ll see what happens,” Trump said. “In the meantime, we have our hostages back, we’re getting the remains of our great heroes back and we’ve had no […]
News From Norkiland
This Aug. 24, 2019, photo provided Aug. 25, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, smiling after the test firing of an unspecified missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP) ND:tBF is launching his rockets again: https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2019/08/25/north-korea-tests-new-super-large-rocket-launcher/ His new toy is a “super large rocket […]
More Missing Identified
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) forensic anthropologist Jennie Jin, bottom right, secures one of the 55 cases of remains of service members turned over by the North Korean military as government officials observe on July 27, 2018. (Sgt. 1st Class David J. Marshall/Army) There is identification of more remains from the Korean War, in regard […]
North Korea Conducts Second Missile Launch in Less than a Week
The rogue Communist government of North Korea fired two missiles east into the Sea of Japan early Wednesday local time, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) confirmed. North Korea conducted its second weapons test in less than a week Wednesday, firing two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast. Observers say the move was […]
Norks in the News – Again
Fatty Kim da T’ird is up to his old tricks again: firing missiles downrange to spook his neighbors to the South. There’s no footage of the Nork-launched weapon, just the stock footage they usually broadcast to broadcast their success. https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2019/07/25/north-korea-says-missile-test-was-solemn-warning-to-south-korea/ Per the article: North Korea has been urging the U.S. and South Korea to scrap […]
Two Sides of the Same Coin
Iran’s cyber hackers are as dedicated to infiltrating US networks and stealing anything they can get as the Norks’ cyber-poaching group over in Norkiland. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/06/23/us-struck-iranian-military-computers-this-week/ From the June article: In recent weeks, hackers believed to be working for the Iranian government have targeted U.S. government agencies, as well as sectors of the economy, including finance, […]
The Homesickness Is Real
An elderly gentleman, who was forced at age 20 by the Korean War to leave his hometown of Pyongyang, has spent the past 70 years raising pigeons with his family. To him, they represent longing and hope – hope to see his hometown again some day. He says “The homesickness is real.” He can see […]
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