What do you think North Korea's "Christmas gift" to the US will be?

[g5000]

North Korea has steadily made progress in developing ballistic missiles capable of reaching the US in the past few years.

And now a flashback...

 

[ABikerSailor]

His Christmas gift will be a failed test that lands somewhere near Japan again...

Same nonsense just a different decade...

Actually, the DPRK has had several successful ballistic missile tests. Including a launch from a submarine. They deliberately cause their missiles to land in Japanese waters just to piss off the Japanese.

It's too bad your propaganda outlets keep you in the dark.

Sad.

You know what I think? They kept testing the ballistic missiles to see if they were capable of getting the altitude required to strike the US, and when they saw they could get it, they crashed them into the sea so as not to spark any war.

The missile tests that have me concerned are the ones they have been doing recently. And yeah, I get it, they are short range missiles and not a threat to the US, they can still be used to test guidance systems for accuracy.

They already have had several successful ballistic tests. What they are probably testing for now is an accurate guidance system. When they get that, there may be more than just sabre rattling.

 

[g5000]

Trump is wandering the halls of the White House, tears staining Kim's letter, singing to himself...

 

[anynameyouwish]

Heard about this yesterday. Seems that Un is getting a bit upset with Trump and his denuclearization talks. Un feels like Trump is simply using him for a political prop, and now is warning that how Trump handles the talks in the near future will determine what kind of "Christmas present" he will send to the US.

What do you think he's gonna send the USA for Christmas?

And yeah.................because I know a lot of you will holler "fake news" unless its from a conservative news site, that is why I linked it to the FOX article. There are lots of other articles on this as well.

North Korea warns US will choose its 'Christmas gift' if Trump fails to meet looming nuclear deadline

Ri Thae Song, North Korea’s vice minister of foreign affairs in charge of relations with the United States, warned of an approaching end-of-year deadline, saying that President Trump’s recent calls for more talks is “nothing but a foolish trick hatched to keep the DPRK bound to dialogue and use it in favor of the political situation and election in the U.S.,” Reuters reported.

He referred to North Korea by the initials of its formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

“The DPRK has done its utmost with maximum perseverance not to backtrack from the important steps it has taken on its own initiative,” Ri said in his statement. “What is left to be done now is the U.S. option and it is entirely up to the U.S. what Christmas gift it will select to get.”

North Korea has been ramping up missile tests and other military demonstrations in recent months in an apparent pressure tactic over the talks. Negotiations have faltered since a February summit between Kim Jong-un and Trump in Vietnam which broke down after the U.S. rejected North Korean demands for broad sanctions relief in exchange for a partial surrender of its nuclear capabilities.

Kim later issued his end-of-year deadline and has also said the North would seek a “new path” if the U.S. persists with sanctions and pressure. Working-level talks last month in Sweden broke down over what the North Koreans described as the Americans’ “old stance and attitude.”

On Tuesday, Ri did not clarify what he meant by a “Christmas gift,” but a Reuters breaking news editor speculated on Twitter that North Korea could be threatening a satellite launch, an outright ICBM test, a SLBM test far from Korean Peninsula or a nuclear test.

kimchi

 

[Unkotare]

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What do you think he's gonna send the USA for Christmas?.....

A hand-sewn decorative pillow and a subscription to the North Korean Starvation of the Month Club. They send a lovely basket each month that would have contained fresh fruit and vegetables if they had any.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

His Christmas gift will be a failed test that lands somewhere near Japan again...

Same nonsense just a different decade...

Actually, the DPRK has had several successful ballistic missile tests. Including a launch from a submarine. They deliberately cause their missiles to land in Japanese waters just to piss off the Japanese.

It's too bad your propaganda outlets keep you in the dark.

Sad.

You know what I think? They kept testing the ballistic missiles to see if they were capable of getting the altitude required to strike the US, and when they saw they could get it, they crashed them into the sea so as not to spark any war.

The missile tests that have me concerned are the ones they have been doing recently. And yeah, I get it, they are short range missiles and not a threat to the US, they can still be used to test guidance systems for accuracy.

They already have had several successful ballistic tests. What they are probably testing for now is an accurate guidance system. When they get that, there may be more than just sabre rattling.

Well here what could happen and that is they sell material for a dirty bomb and hit us at the border at multiple spots...

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

His Christmas gift will be a failed test that lands somewhere near Japan again...

Same nonsense just a different decade...

Actually, the DPRK has had several successful ballistic missile tests. Including a launch from a submarine. They deliberately cause their missiles to land in Japanese waters just to piss off the Japanese.

It's too bad your propaganda outlets keep you in the dark.

Sad.

CSpan is really bad Propaganda damn it!

 

[Crepitus]

Heard about this yesterday. Seems that Un is getting a bit upset with Trump and his denuclearization talks. Un feels like Trump is simply using him for a political prop, and now is warning that how Trump handles the talks in the near future will determine what kind of "Christmas present" he will send to the US.

What do you think he's gonna send the USA for Christmas?

And yeah.................because I know a lot of you will holler "fake news" unless its from a conservative news site, that is why I linked it to the FOX article. There are lots of other articles on this as well.

North Korea warns US will choose its 'Christmas gift' if Trump fails to meet looming nuclear deadline

Ri Thae Song, North Korea’s vice minister of foreign affairs in charge of relations with the United States, warned of an approaching end-of-year deadline, saying that President Trump’s recent calls for more talks is “nothing but a foolish trick hatched to keep the DPRK bound to dialogue and use it in favor of the political situation and election in the U.S.,” Reuters reported.

He referred to North Korea by the initials of its formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

“The DPRK has done its utmost with maximum perseverance not to backtrack from the important steps it has taken on its own initiative,” Ri said in his statement. “What is left to be done now is the U.S. option and it is entirely up to the U.S. what Christmas gift it will select to get.”

North Korea has been ramping up missile tests and other military demonstrations in recent months in an apparent pressure tactic over the talks. Negotiations have faltered since a February summit between Kim Jong-un and Trump in Vietnam which broke down after the U.S. rejected North Korean demands for broad sanctions relief in exchange for a partial surrender of its nuclear capabilities.

Kim later issued his end-of-year deadline and has also said the North would seek a “new path” if the U.S. persists with sanctions and pressure. Working-level talks last month in Sweden broke down over what the North Koreans described as the Americans’ “old stance and attitude.”

On Tuesday, Ri did not clarify what he meant by a “Christmas gift,” but a Reuters breaking news editor speculated on Twitter that North Korea could be threatening a satellite launch, an outright ICBM test, a SLBM test far from Korean Peninsula or a nuclear test.

Some fresh buttsexs for The dOnald.

 

[Crepitus]

Well, thank goodness Kim said "Christmas gift" and didn't say "Holiday gift", or Trump and all his little snowflakes would have a meltdown.

Hilarious!!!!

And probably true.

 

[liarintheWH]

g5000 has Jong-un sap all over his face.

Disgusting.

 

[OKTexas]

Perhaps we should station a couple of ships off the Korean coast with THAD missiles and just shoot down anything he launches.

.

I wish we would.

I think you mean THAAD, though.

But since it's North Korea and our ships, the Aegis ballistic missile defense system is more applicable.

What ever works, just shoot those SOBs down..

.

 

[Likkmee]

It'll be a nice touch

 

[K9Buck]

China is going to support N. Korea if a war breaks out.

No shit, really?

 

[pismoe]

Yanno, Trump didn't help things much with his response. He said that we have the greatest military in the world (and we do), and he would hate to have to use it against N. Korea, but he would if he had to.

If both sides keep ramping up the rhetoric, it could get ugly next year.

And, with China being an ally of N. Korea, as well as that Trump pissed off Xi this year with his bill in support of the Hong Kong protesters, chances are good that if Un starts a war with the US, China is gonna side with N. Korea.

------------------------------- USA should just use our Military as TRUMP Suggests eh .

 

[Likkmee]

 

[g5000]

Exclusive: John Bolton hits Trump for bluffing on North Korea nuclear policy

In his sharpest criticism yet of his old workplace, John Bolton suggested the Trump administration is bluffing about stopping North Korea's nuclear ambitions — and soon might need to admit publicly that its policy failed badly.

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• Trump's top envoy to North Korea, Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, said recently that if North Korea follows through on that threat, it would be "most unhelpful in achieving a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula."

• Bolton called Biegun's statement "a late entry but a clear winner in the Understatement of the Year Award contest."

<snip>

• Using data from analysts and governments around the world, Japan's Nagasaki University estimated in June that Kim now has as many as 30 nuclear warheads. That's on the lower end of estimates, and it's up from as many as 20 warheads in the same study last year.

• "Even though they're not testing right now, they're operating at full tempo," said Victor Cha, the National Security Council director for Asia under President George W. Bush and Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

• The Trump administration declined to comment.

<snip>

Russel described Trump's approach to Kim as "magical thinking, based on a narcissistic conviction that the tractor beam of Donald Trump's charisma was going to capture the Leninist dictator and pull him into some kind of condo-developing frenzy of good behavior."

 

[blackhawk]

Kimchi.