10-30-17

Itchy trigger fingers and nervousness will only lead to catastrophe in a milisecond! Too many nervous officals. Prepare, folks.

North Korea taking very proactive moves with full scale drills including total black out and mass evacuations. Meanwhile the US sends military planes closer to North Korea’s borders making Kim Jung Un a bit nervous. Russia suffers 130 soldiers killed in action in 2017 alone only confirming Russia’s close alliance with President Bashar al-Assad.

North Korea Fears US Preemptive Strike

Source Israeli News Live

North Korea 2017 Documentary ~ Rising Tensions On The Peninsula

Source Right Wing

Reports of ‘unusual’ wartime preparations in North Korea

Greg Palkot reports on the alleged evacuation drills in the region.

Source Fox News

Democrats push bill to stop Trump launching pre-emptive North Korea strike amid WW3 fears

MORE than 60 US members of Congress have backed a bill to prevent US President Donald Trump from unilaterally launching a pre-emptive attack on North Korea.

The “No Unconstitutional Strike against North Korea” bill would prohibit an attack on North Korea without Congressional approval.

Instead of military action, the bill calls for President Trump and the White House to pursue a diplomatic resolution to ongoing tensions between the US and North Korea.

However the bill makes exceptions when it comes to repelling a sudden attack, defending the US’ allies and rescuing US personnel.

The bill was launched by Democrats John Conyers in the House of Represenatives and Ed Markey in the Senate. 

Supporters of the bill have acknowledged that it will not pass without more backing from Republicans.

At present, the bill has only two Republican co-sponsors in Congress.

Congressman Conyers said: “As a veteran of the Korean war, I am ashamed that our commander-in-chief is conducting himself in a reckless manner that endangers our troops stationed in South Korea and our regional allies.” 

Senator Markey added: “President Trump’s provocative and escalatory rhetoric, with threats to unleash ‘fire and fury’ and ‘totally destroy’ North Korea, cannot be allowed to turn into reality.

“As long as President Trump has a Twitter account, we must ensure that he cannot start a war or launch a nuclear first strike without the explicit authorisation of Congress.”

Meanwhile, US defence chief James Mattis yesterday warned that North Korea should prepare for a US onslaught if it continues to escalate its war rhetoric. 

Mr Mattis, speaking after visiting the demilitarised zone on the Korean border, said North Korea could not be allowed to repeatedly “threaten others with catastrophe” with its fast-growing nuclear war programme and that his aim was to denuclearise the Korean peninsula.

He added: “We are doing everything we can to solve this diplomatically, everything we can.

“But ultimately our diplomats have to be backed up by strong soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.” EXPRESS

The Map of Death

What North Korea’s missiles are really aimed at.

It is hard to say when the disparagement of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program started, but I like June 2000 as my cultural ground zero. That month, the venerable news magazine the Economist put a picture of a Kim Jong Il on its cover with the headline ”Greetings, Earthlings.”

After that, Kim Jong Il became funny. There were internet memes (“Kim Jong Il looking at things“), T-shirts courtesy of The Onion, and, oh yes, that song-and-dance number in Team America: World Police: “I’m So Ronery.“

Even academics got into the act. Bruce Cummings famously opened a chapter in North Korea: Another Country by asking:

What can he possibly be thinking, standing there in his pear-shaped polyester pantsuit, pointy-toed elevator shoes, oversize sunglasses of malevolent tint, an arrogant curl to his feminine lip, an immodest pot-belly, a perpetual bad-hair day? He is thinking: get me out of here.

The North Koreans deserve some of this. North Korea’s propaganda is so vitriolic that it can be hard to take seriously, a point that we Westerners make to North Koreans in many Track II meetings. When the Colorado legislature passed a harmless resolution urging North Korea to return the U.S.S. Pueblo, the U.S. ship seized in 1968, the North Koreans sent the sponsor of the bill a postcard inviting him to come and get it. (What’s Korean for molon labe?)

The tendency to see North Korea as vaguely ridiculous has helped make the country’s nuclear weapons program seem silly, too.

Which brings us to Kim Jong Un, son and successor to Kim Jong Il, and his bizarre wall map of nuclear death and destruction.

The initial response has been mirth. Wits in the Southwest, noting that one of the targets appears to be near Austin, Texas, immediately started a twitter hashtag: #whyaustin, suggesting that maybe Kim is irritated about missing Prince perform at SXSW or with his barbecue options in Pyongyang (although bulgogi is awfully tasty). Texas Governor Rick Perry even took the opportunity to shill for Austin, arguing that North Korea targeted the city because of its excellent business climate. ”The individuals in North Korea understand that Austin, Texas, is a very important city in North America, as do corporate CEOs and others who are moving here in record numbers,” he said. You can’t make this stuff up.

Maybe, though, it is time to take all this just a bit more seriously. At the very least, when another country is making an overt threat to use nuclear weapons against specific places, it might be worth asking WTH?  Source FP

#northKorea #war

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