The North Korea Syndrome

[American_Jihad]

Time for a limited tactical nuclear strike on his major military bases and his bomb shelters...
The North Korea Syndrome
Recalling a left-wing hero’s reversal of history.
March 13, 2017
Lloyd Billingsley

When not assassinating relatives such his estranged half-brother Kim Jong-Nam, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been launching missiles that fly perilously closer to U.S. allies such as Japan, and few doubt that the ultimate target is the American mainland. In response, as the Washington Times reported, the Trump administration seeks to deploy the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD) in South Korea by the end of 2017.

This move has “angered not only North Korea but also China and Russia, which see the system’s powerful radars as a security threat.” THAAD is purely defensive but its deployment is described as “controversial.” So is the history of conflict in the region, too important to be left to an American KGB collaborator the establishment media still passes off as an independent journalist.

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The North Korean regime maintains the labor camps do not exist, and in Camp 14, Shin Dong-hyuk was taught that South Korea had invaded the North with backing of the United States. That was the line of I.F. Stone in The Hidden History of the Korean War, still in print and still praised by journalists of the left.

North Korea, meanwhile, never gets the condemnation it deserves from bodies such as the United Nations. The United States and its allies need not take seriously those who can’t tell the difference between imperfect democracies and a Stalinist regime of fathomless depravity. On the other hand, the United States must take seriously the regime’s surge in missile deployment. Deployment of THAAD is a good idea but it could stand some diplomatic reinforcement.

The Trump administration recently agreed with the longstanding “one China” policy that regards Taiwan as China’s wayward province. The president should include North Korea as part of the one-China policy. China does nothing to restrain North Korea and China is angered by a purely defensive missile system.

Trump’s plan to deploy THAAD also angered Russia, which according to establishment media legend is Trump’s key ally, responsible for his election victory. According to this line, Russia should be applauding President Trump’s defensive missile deployment.

One of the first actions of Trump’s predecessor, the 44th president, was to cancel missile defense for U.S. allies Poland and the Czech republic, which even the New York Times called a “security reversal.” In similar style, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s famous re-set gave the Russians virtually everything they wanted, including the most highly intrusive inspection program the United States had ever accepted.

“We want to ensure that every question that the Russian military or Russian government asks is answered,” Secretary Clinton said after meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. Clinton also touted “deep cooperation between our countries.”

Those who see Russia as a player for the Trump team might invoke the I.F. Stone rule. What one reads in the old-line establishment media might be the exact opposite of the truth.

The North Korea Syndrome

 

[Fenton Lum]

Gee, and to think we sold them nuclear reactors from a company Rumsfeld had once sat on the board of directors of, a mere two years before we placed them on an "axis of evil" list.

 

[American_Jihad]

Gee, and to think we sold them nuclear reactors from a company Rumsfeld had once sat on the board of directors of, a mere two years before we placed them on an "axis of evil" list.

As part of the 1994 agreed framework reached under President Bill Clinton...

 

[Fenton Lum]

Gee, and to think we sold them nuclear reactors from a company Rumsfeld had once sat on the board of directors of, a mere two years before we placed them on an "axis of evil" list.

As part of the 1994 agreed framework reached under President Bill Clinton...

Yup, and wrapped up under Bush. Bipartisan.

 

[Flopper]

Time for a limited tactical nuclear strike on his major military bases and his bomb shelters...
The North Korea Syndrome
Recalling a left-wing hero’s reversal of history.
March 13, 2017
Lloyd Billingsley

When not assassinating relatives such his estranged half-brother Kim Jong-Nam, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been launching missiles that fly perilously closer to U.S. allies such as Japan, and few doubt that the ultimate target is the American mainland. In response, as the Washington Times reported, the Trump administration seeks to deploy the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD) in South Korea by the end of 2017.

This move has “angered not only North Korea but also China and Russia, which see the system’s powerful radars as a security threat.” THAAD is purely defensive but its deployment is described as “controversial.” So is the history of conflict in the region, too important to be left to an American KGB collaborator the establishment media still passes off as an independent journalist.

...

The North Korean regime maintains the labor camps do not exist, and in Camp 14, Shin Dong-hyuk was taught that South Korea had invaded the North with backing of the United States. That was the line of I.F. Stone in The Hidden History of the Korean War, still in print and still praised by journalists of the left.

North Korea, meanwhile, never gets the condemnation it deserves from bodies such as the United Nations. The United States and its allies need not take seriously those who can’t tell the difference between imperfect democracies and a Stalinist regime of fathomless depravity. On the other hand, the United States must take seriously the regime’s surge in missile deployment. Deployment of THAAD is a good idea but it could stand some diplomatic reinforcement.

The Trump administration recently agreed with the longstanding “one China” policy that regards Taiwan as China’s wayward province. The president should include North Korea as part of the one-China policy. China does nothing to restrain North Korea and China is angered by a purely defensive missile system.

Trump’s plan to deploy THAAD also angered Russia, which according to establishment media legend is Trump’s key ally, responsible for his election victory. According to this line, Russia should be applauding President Trump’s defensive missile deployment.

One of the first actions of Trump’s predecessor, the 44th president, was to cancel missile defense for U.S. allies Poland and the Czech republic, which even the New York Times called a “security reversal.” In similar style, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s famous re-set gave the Russians virtually everything they wanted, including the most highly intrusive inspection program the United States had ever accepted.

“We want to ensure that every question that the Russian military or Russian government asks is answered,” Secretary Clinton said after meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. Clinton also touted “deep cooperation between our countries.”

Those who see Russia as a player for the Trump team might invoke the I.F. Stone rule. What one reads in the old-line establishment media might be the exact opposite of the truth.

The North Korea Syndrome

I'm pretty sure a Nuclear Strike is being considered by Trump. He's asking congress for a huge build up in the military. Trump is having Tillerson lay the ground work by warning North Korea of possibly military action, closed door meetings with South Korea, Japan, and China. He is putting in better missile protection for South Korea and discussing it with Japan.

I expect we will soon see Trump threats and insults aimed straight at Kim Jong-un along with more positioning of military resources to provoke him into some type of overt action directed at US forces.

There has never a been a president who needed a war so badly as Trump. His disastrous performance in the white house and the lowest approval ratings for a new president at this point in his term of office begs for a diversion and there is no better diversion than a military attack against the nation. As in the past, an attack on the nation would certainly rally the public behind him.

Kim Jong-un is just the person to give Trump what he wants, an egomaniac that will sacrifice his country rather than lose face with his people.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

we dont need to Nuke Korea, just drop a few moster bombs filled with old cow manure all over the place,,,then lets see them try to bomb anyone

 

[waltky]

China quietly preparing for possible N Korean crisis...

China quietly preparing for possible N Korean crisis
Sat, Jan 20, 2018 - China has ramped up security along its border with North Korea, installing new surveillance cameras, deploying extra security forces and operating radiation detectors as it braces for a potential crisis.

Bellicose rhetoric between Washington and Pyongyang has raised fears in China of a conflict that could send millions of North Korean refugees across the 1,420km border, and of nuclear fallout that could hit Chinese towns. While authorities have been coy about preparations, residents have seen an increase in patrols along the frontier. Radiation monitors are running in border towns, and locals said interactions with North Koreans have been discouraged. A red banner tacked to a border fence in Dandong — a major trading hub separated from North Korea by the Yalu River — has a Cold War-like message to residents: “Citizens or organizations who see spying activities must immediately report them to national security organs.”

Outside Dandong, new checkpoints dot the road running along the Yalu River. Locals said they were installed in October last year. Relations between China and North Korea have deteriorated as Beijing has backed a series of UN sanctions to punish its secretive ally over its repeated missile and nuclear tests. In a previously unthinkable meeting, top US diplomats and military officials last year told their Chinese counterparts about US plans to send troops to North Korea and secure its nuclear weapons in case the regime fell. “The China-North Korea relationship has some problems at present,” said Yang Xiyu (楊希雨), a former Chinese negotiator on Pyongyang’s nuclear issue. “It has brought about the current difficult situation in the relationship.”

At the massive Supung Dam, which provides power to both China and North Korea, surveillance cameras monitor the Yalu River. Further north in Longjing, where the Tumen River freezes over in the winter, villages have established border protection units and cadres have taught self-defense to residents. The local propaganda department last year said that hundreds of cameras were being installed to build a “second-generation border surveillance system.” The measures are slashing the number of North Korean defectors who reach Seoul via a land route through China to Southeast Asia. Fewer than 100 North Koreans per month reached the South last year — the lowest number in 15 years, the South Korean Ministry of Unification said. Five of Pyongyang’s six nuclear tests have been carried out under Mount Mantap at Punggye-ri, about 80km from the border with northeast China, where citizens felt the accompanying earthquakes.

Some Chinese and foreign scientists worry that the 2,200m peak suffers from “tired mountain syndrome” and could collapse from further nuclear tests. Fear of radiation from a test, accident or nuclear war spreading to China runs high. After Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test in September last year, the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection conducted emergency radiation monitoring, although nothing abnormal was found. Last month, a state-run newspaper in Jilin Province published a full-page illustrated advisory detailing how to response in the event of a nuclear attack or disaster. “If there is a river, lake or pond near you, jump in to protect yourself,” it read. “Flush out your nostrils, rinse your mouth and clean out you ear canals.”

China quietly preparing for possible N Korean crisis - Taipei Times