N Korea "bombs" US in birthday video for founder Kim Il Sung

[Jacque67 7,328]

From Reuters:

 

North Korea's state television aired footage of a choral performance attended by Kim Jong Un, the elder Kim's grandson, on Sunday, a day after a huge military parade in Pyongyang, which also marked the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung.

The singing was followed by footage of its test-firing of a missile in February which, in the video, was joined by other missiles shooting into sky, passing over the Pacific and exploding in giant balls of flames in the United States.

The video ended with a picture of the American flag in flames, overlapping row after row of white crosses in a cemetery.

"When the performance was over, all the performers and participants in the military parade broke into enthusiastic cheers of "hurrah!" state run KCNA news agency said.

State TV footage showed leader Kim smiling and waving in return.

"The Dear Supreme Leader waved back to them and congratulated the artistes on their successful performance," KCNA said.

 

North Korea said in February that it had successfully tested a new type of medium- to long-range ballistic missile, the Pukguksong-2, propelled by a solid-fuel engine.

Related reading in today's Financial Times: “A reckless North Korea remains China’s useful ally.”

 

https://boingboing.net/2017/04/18/north-korea-bombs.html

 

us troops refused to answer Japanese press questions, on tv, about the movements of USS Carl Vinson....a current source of mockery in China....

hotting up?

[Jacque67 7,328]

When US president Donald Trump boasted early last week that he had sent an "armada" as a warning to North Korea, the aircraft carrier strike group he spoke of was still far from the Korean peninsula, and headed in the opposite direction.

It was even farther away over the weekend, moving through the Sunda Strait and then into the Indian Ocean, as North Korea displayed what appeared to be new missiles at a parade and staged a failed missile test.

The US military's Pacific Command explained on Tuesday that the strike group first had to complete a shorter-than-initially planned period of training with Australia. But it was now "proceeding to the Western Pacific as ordered," it said.

.@POTUS on North Korea: "We are sending an armada." https://t.co/bYfHbwIm47pic.twitter.com/WFKJknP1fX

— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) 12 April 2017

The perceived communications mix-up has raised eyebrows among Korea experts, who wonder whether it erodes the Trump administration's credibility at a time when US rhetoric about the North's advancing nuclear and missile capabilities are raising concerns about a potential conflict.

"If you threaten them and your threat is not credible, it's only going to undermine whatever your policy toward them is. And that could be a logical conclusion from what's just happened," said North Korea expert Joel Wit at the 38 North monitoring group, run by Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/19/trump-warned-north-korea-armada-headed-toward-australia/

 

kim jong un

kim jong il 

a gentleman

 

ron (Paul) ryan

 

SAD!!!

[CaliCat 3,957]

4 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

When US president Donald Trump boasted early last week that he had sent an "armada" as a warning to North Korea, the aircraft carrier strike group he spoke of was still far from the Korean peninsula, and headed in the opposite direction.

It was even farther away over the weekend, moving through the Sunda Strait and then into the Indian Ocean, as North Korea displayed what appeared to be new missiles at a parade and staged a failed missile test.

The US military's Pacific Command explained on Tuesday that the strike group first had to complete a shorter-than-initially planned period of training with Australia. But it was now "proceeding to the Western Pacific as ordered," it said:

.@POTUS on North Korea: "We are sending an armada." https://t.co/bYfHbwIm47pic.twitter.com/WFKJknP1fX

— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) 12 April 2017

The perceived communications mix-up has raised eyebrows among Korea experts, who wonder whether it erodes the Trump administration's credibility at a time when US rhetoric about the North's advancing nuclear and missile capabilities are raising concerns about a potential conflict.

"If you threaten them and your threat is not credible, it's only going to undermine whatever your policy toward them is. And that could be a logical conclusion from what's just happened," said North Korea expert Joel Wit at the 38 North monitoring group, run by Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

 

NK knows Trump is a weak buffoon, and they know how to yank his chain. The issue is that Trump may be mentally unstable to the point of trying military action against NK. We can only hope Ivanka can keep him on his meds.

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4 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/19/trump-warned-north-korea-armada-headed-toward-australia/

 

kim jong un

kim jong il 

a gentleman

 

ron (Paul) ryan

 

SAD!!!

From the article:

 

"The perceived communications mix-up has raised eyebrows among Korea experts, who wonder whether it erodes the Trump administration's credibility at a time when US rhetoric about the North's advancing nuclear and missile capabilities are raising concerns about a potential conflict. "If you threaten them and your threat is not credible, it's only going to undermine whatever your policy toward them is. And that could be a logical conclusion from what's just happened," said North Korea expert Joel Wit at the 38 North monitoring group, run by Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies."

 

They ignore the fact that coming from a "Trump administration" already elminates most credibility.

 

In addition to mixing up Iraq and Syria when talking about who he bombed, Trump also appeared to be unclear about who is still running North Korea in an interview. He spoke of "the gentleman" as having been around when Clinton was in office.

 

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/04/18/trump-north-korea-i-just-dont-telegraph-my-moves - For the video

 

"I hope things work out well. I hope there’s going to be peace, but you know, they’ve been talking with this gentleman for a long time. You read Clinton’s book, he said, ‘Oh we made such a great peace deal,’ and it was a joke. You look at different things over the years with President Obama. Everybody’s been outplayed, they’ve all been outplayed by this gentleman and we’ll see what happens.”

 

Perhaps he thinks Kim Jong-Un is actually a creature birthed by Kim Jong-Il when he died, and they are actually one and the same?

Edited April 19, 2017 by bcking

[ready4ONE 5,400]

How does ANYTHING erode the credibility of the Trump Administration? That would imply that there be credibility to erode.

 

I wouldn't like to make a bet on who is crazier, Trump or NK.

[IAMX 3,055]

17 minutes ago, ready4ONE said:

How does ANYTHING erode the credibility of the Trump Administration? That would imply that there be credibility to erode.

 

I wouldn't like to make a bet on who is crazier, Trump or NK.

The left already invoked Godwins law with comparing him to Hitler, so I think its fitting they compare him with Kim Jong Un too. No embellishing tantrum is too big. 

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4 minutes ago, IAMX said:

The left already invoked Godwins law with comparing him to Hitler, so I think its fitting they compare him with Kim Jong Un too. No embellishing tantrum is too big. 

Which Trump Tantrum are you talking about here? Did he tweet about SNL again?

 

For me I don't compare him to Kim Jong-Un, or Kim Jong-Il....I just wish I could be 100% confident that he knows the difference between them.

Edited April 19, 2017 by bcking

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 hour ago, bcking said:

Which Trump Tantrum are you talking about here? Did he tweet about SNL again?

 

For me I don't compare him to Kim Jong-Un, or Kim Jong-Il....I just wish I could be 100% confident that he knows the difference between them.

 

 

LOL. It all runs together, it seems.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Spicer's comments were a laugh!!!

Edited April 20, 2017 by Jacque67

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/04/19/spicer-grilled-on-uss-carl-vinson.cnn

[CaliCat 3,957]

5 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

Spicer's comments were a laugh!!!

 

They always are. He's like the jester, only nobody told him.

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I was worried when I saw pictures from South Korea as it appeared to me in showing the strength of the US govt Mike Pence's chin was going to encroach onto North Korean soil.

The optics of him coming out to stare across the demilitarised zone with his chest puffed out and chin jutting out was laughable. That isn't the show of strength that is going to worry the madman sitting in his palace in Pyongyang.