Yet Another Tantrum from ND:tBF
Well, it looks like that “august” leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un (“ND:tBF” here at TAH) wants some more attention.
Specifically, North Korea is now claiming it will launch a “preemptive nuclear strike” on the US. They’ve also recently said they would end the cease fire on the Korean peninsula that’s technically been in effect since 1953.
I have to say I’m not particularly worried about Armageddon here. After all, North Korea hasn’t yet demonstrated the ability to build a weapon small enough to fit on a long range missile. Their missiles aren’t exactly deserving of paeans regarding their reliability, either. And although ND:tBF might be as crazy as his late father, I’m guessing the rest of North Korea’s leadership doesn’t have a collective “death wish”.
“Preemptive nuclear strike” my butt. This is like a 7 year old kid with a few firecrackers threatening to take on an Infantry company. IMO it’s nothing but ludicrous political posturing.
Category: Politics
Not to worry. Susan Rice is on the job. As for what puffy pants the kimchi king can or can’t do, I have no idea–unless I am willing to trust the current administration’s assessment. So, like I said, I have no idea.
“Oh please Mr. Jong-Un! Don’t throw us in that briar patch.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if B. Hussein 0bama & Co. were already writing an apology letter to dictator Kim
If they shoot at us, we won’t have to wear those ugly Nork clothes, wiil we?
Can’t we just throw basket balls at his balls like we did his daddy?
Meanwhile, daddy is rotting in a pine box, singing, “I’m so ronery…”
Seriously, they can hit the West Coast? So Seattle, Portland, San Fran, and LA are in danger of being blown off the map?
This is a bad thing how, exactly?
Paeans… I see what you did there.
Maybe we need to send Dennis Rodman back to smooth things over?
I say we adapt a few dozen of our ICBM’s with confetti warheads and launch them over there, when they go boom and rain down colorful bits of paper all over his country maybe he will get the point. Do. Not. Fuck. With. US.
PFDR Brennan: got that idea from CDR Lloyd Bucher, CO of the USS Pueblo. As part of the terms of his crew’s release, he was required by the North Koreans to write a “confession” concerning his “crimes” against North Korea.
CDR Bucher’s confession was a masterpiece of blatantly obvious bullshit and double-talk that he managed to sneak past his naive captors. The last 2 sentences of the 1st para of his “confession” are particularly hilarious:
The absolute truth of this bowel wrenching confession is attested to by my fervent desire to paean the Korean People’s Army Navy, and their government and to beseech the Korean people to forgive our dastardly deeds unmatched since Attila. I therefore swear the following account to be true on the sacred honor of the Great Speckled Bird.
For those who aren’t familiar with the term “paean” – while it means “praise in song”, it’s pronounced identical to the terms “peon” and “pee on”. Somehow I just don’t think CDR Bucher was talking about either singing or low-income agricultural workers. (smile)
Additional excerpts from his “confession” can be found here, and are a hoot:
http://www.usspueblo.org/Prisoners/Pete_Final_Confession.html
Puffy Pants (or Needle Dick) is starting to make some sense to me know. He is now threatening to turn Washington into a Sea of Fire. (For the Federal monitors of this blog: I am not advocating violence against any person, place, or thing–at least, at the moment.)
Gaaaaaad damit. NOW not know.
Dammit, where’s Bill Clinton and Jimmeh to give the Norks everything they want?!?!
First off, NHSparky, I live close enough to Portland to glow if they nuke it. But, they can have Seattle.
Secondly, if the son of the Asian Elvis Impersonator did try to fire off their sorry excuse for rockets, I would think Japan would blow them out of the sky first.
However, what concerns me is the tenacity they have shown along the DMZ. We have interests there that they could hit that would be considered a preemptive strike on us. I have a cousin stationed there now.
Obviously L’il Kim is counting on a key factor – prevailing winds. It’s damn near impossible to turn the area into a parking lot without dropping some serious fallout on China, Japan, or South Korea.
Just watched a North Korean commercial about a guy dreaming of launching a nuclear missile to a piano rendition of “we are the world”. Yep. They’re fuckin’ nuts.
“threatening to turn Washington into a Sea of Fire” – But would we really miss it, if they did?
I keep asking myself if they’re howling ‘WOLF!!!’ as a distraction before they shoot off something at some place, or just pulling a tantrum like a three-year-old at the grocery who just got told “No, you cannot have another box of choo-choo puffs. We already have six at home.”
But I do have a solution to the problem: drop parachutes with rice in large unbreakable bags on every remote village in the north and bury cans of tuna in the bags with the rice. And make sure the bags and cans are clearly stamped with a picture of Santa Claus and the words “Gift of the USA” in Korean. And do it continuously for three weeks. The provinces do not have large harvests these days. I’m sure the food would be welcome.
On the bright side, even China is getting sick of their sh*t.
@18 That’s actually a good thing, but I can see one minor problem with it. Our troops on the DMZ could wake up one morning and have Chinese troops waving at them from the other side!
I can’t figure out if Kim Jong-Un is acting the part of a kid in the tempestuous threes, or a squat little popinjay who thinks that he can get respect by repeated threats of violence.
http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/07/17225444-north-korea-threat-of-nuclear-attack-against-us-not-easily-dismissed?lite
The fact that he’s pissing off the Chinese government is a good thing. The possibility that he can throw a missile at Guam (US Navy base) is not, even if it can be blocked before it gets there.
As long as Congress is sitting and the entire executive branch and staff are at the office when he turns DC into a sea of fire, he’d get no argument from me. Hell, I’d buy the marshmallows.
Flag–meh…I wouldn’t worry about it. Seriously, the Norks don’t have anything above what was dropped on Hiroshima (15-20 kT range.) and while it would suck if you were sitting right underneath it, more than a couple miles away you’d be GTG.
I’ve found this little tool useful…
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/hydesim.html
Basically, what it tells me that if I was sitting at home and someone dropped a 25 MT party favor on downtown Boston, about the only effect would be, “Hey, did you just hear something?”
Keep in mind that the largest nuke the US ever developed/deployed was the B41, which was on the order of about 20-25MT. Tsar Bomba was a tad larger at 57 MT, but that was a one-time test. The largest deployed Soviet-era nuke was also around 25MT, because basically anything bigger would be impractical to carry even by a bomber, let alone an ICBM.
Glorious Dear Nork Leader Kim Jong-Un is going to have his way, no matter who he annoys.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/08/17242007-north-korea-rejects-un-demands-vows-to-become-nuclear-weapons-state?lite
Since Kim Jong-un has been spending time with his troops, he wants to appear to mean business.
http://www.news10.net/video/2210940075001/1/Kim-Jong-un-inspects-North-Korean-troops-on-frontline