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China Warns Trump: "We Will Prevent A North Korea Regime
Change"
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In a troubling repudiation of
President Donald Trump’s demands that Beijing do more to rein in its
bellicose neighbor, Beijing, through the state-owned media, cautioned the US
president on Friday that it would intervene (militarily) on North Korea’s
behalf if the US and South Korea launch a preemptive strike to “overthrow the
North Korean regime,” according to a statement in the influential state-run
newspaper Global Times.
"If the U.S. and South Korea carry out
strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political
pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing
so," 
it said.
At
the same time, the Chinese regime  made it clear that its preferred
outcome would be a continuation of the status quo, warning Kim Jong Un that
it would "
remain
neutral if North Korea were to strike first."
 The article, cited by Rueters,  reiterated calls for
a diplomatic solution. However, the possibility of talks between the two
sides was looking increasingly remote as both Trump and Kim continued to
exchange threats of nuclear annihilation, with Trump clarifying Thursday that
his earlier promise to respond with “fire and fury” should the North continue
to threaten the US may not have gone far enough.

China - North Korea's most important
ally and trading partner -  has reiterated calls for calm during the
current crisis. Beijing has expressed frustration with both Pyongyang's
repeated nuclear and missile tests and with behavior from South Korea and the
United States, such as military drills, that it sees as escalating tensions.
"China should also make clear
that if North Korea launches missiles that threaten U.S. soil first and the
U.S. retaliates, China will stay neutral," the Global Times, which is
widely read but does not represent government policy, said in an editorial.
Meanwhile, as the North may be
planning its next ICBM launch, the US is stepping up military exercises with
Japan and South Korea.
“On Thursday, U.S. and Japanese
troops began an 18-day live fire exercise on the northern Japanese island of
Hokkaido, which was to include rocket artillery drills and involve 3,500
troops. The Northern Viper drills are one of the scheduled exercises that
Japan's Self Defense Forces conducts regularly with their U.S. counterparts
and are not a response to the latest tensions. South Korean and U.S. troops
are also gearing up for an annual joint drill from Aug. 21, called the Ulchi
Freedom Guardian, in which up to 30,000 U.S. troops will take part.”
US officials were also discussing
coordinated contingency plans on Friday to formulate exactly how the allies
would respond to an attack.
“South Korea's national security
adviser Chung Eui-yong and his U.S. counterpart H.R. McMaster spoke on the
phone for 40 minutes early on Friday, a spokesman for the presidential Blue
House in Seoul said. The two discussed responses to North Korean provocations
and the security situation on the Korean peninsula, he said.”
Not surprisingly, analysts have
compared the standoff between the two nuclear powers (the North is a recent,
if untested, member of this club) to a modern day Cuban Missile crisis.
"This situation is beginning to develop into this generation's Cuban
Missile crisis moment," ING's chief Asia economist Robert Carnell said
in a research note. "While the U.S. president insists on ramping up the
war of words, there is a decreasing chance of any diplomatic solution."
Judging by the markets' reaction in
the past 48 hours, this troubling reality has finally filtering through to
risk assets.






A
"Furious" North Korea Threatens "Simultaneous Strike" On
Guam By Mid-August

==================================

1. THE US ECONOMY IS CRASHING. (Cliff High)

2.THE US IS DEBT RIDDEN. N KOREA IS DEBT FREE.

3. A DEBT RIDDEN NATION STATE DOES NOT GENERATE JOBS OR GROWTHOBS NOR WEALTH.

4. THE N KOREAN ECONOMY IS BOOMING WITH GROWTH AT 9%.

5.Ron Paul Institute: "Only Morons Believe What The US Government Says
About North Korea"

6. N KOREA IS WIN WIN IF IT STRIKES GUAM.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmWg7NRx-Ow

==================================

HOW SERIOUS IS THIS? WIN WIN SITUATION FOR N KOREA.

B1 BOMBERS AT ANDERSEN AFB MAY ABANDON THIS BASE FOR ANOTHER SECURE
BASE.PREVENTITIVE WAR AGAINST N KOREA IS NO LONGER A VIABLE OPTION NOW.





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSPPRclguX8





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by Tyler Durden

Aug 10, 2017 5:37 AM



So much for Rex Tillerson's tepid attempt to de-escalate Trump's "fire
and fury" statement.



Moments ago, the state run-KCNA news agency issued a statement in which it
cited a commander of the Korean People's Army according to whom President
Donald Trump's threat was a "load of nonsense," it failed to grasp
the "grave situation," and said that "sound dialogue is not
possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on
him," referring to Trump’s comments about unleashing "fire and
fury."



Reaffirming its intentions to strike Guam, N. Korea said it is
"seriously examining the plan for an enveloping strike at Guam through
simultaneous fire of four Hwasong-12 intermediate-range strategic ballistic
rockets in order to interdict the enemy forces on major military bases on
Guam and to signal a crucial warning to the U.S." Noting that it is
getting exhausted and angry with Trump's "load of nonsense", the
General said that Trump's threats are "extremely getting on the nerves
of the infuriated Hwasong artillerymen of the KPA."



"The KPA Strategic Force will finally complete the plan until mid August
and report it to the commander-in-chief of the DPRK nuclear force and wait
for his order" and N. Korea will closely watch U.S. "speech and
behavior."



Turning the tables on Trump's statement that only harsh language can work on
Kim Jong Un, N.Korea responded that "sound dialogue is not possible with
such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on him."







The North Korean statement also says the military action its army "is
about to take" will be effective for restraining America's "frantic
moves" in and near the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. Hinting
that Pyongyang will continue planning an attack, the General adds that
"the military action the KPA is about to take will be an effective
remedy for restraining the frantic moves of the U.S. in the southern part of
the Korean peninsula and its vicinity. "



It said that North Korea will complete a plan by mid-August for the
"historic enveloping fire at Guam," convey it to the commander in
chief of its nuclear force and then "wait for his order." North
Korea says it will "keep closely watching the speech and behavior of the
U.S." The army General explains that "this unprecedented step is to
give stronger confidence in certain victory and courage to the Korean people
and help them witness the wretched plight of the U.S. imperialists."



And, in a surprising tangent, the statement goes so far as to give details of
the flight plan its ICBMs will take, which will be right above Japan, hardly
a detail that Tokyo will be excited about:



The Hwasong-12 rockets to be launched by the KPA will cross the sky above
Shimane, Hiroshima and Koichi Prefectures of Japan. They will fly 3 356.7 km
for 1 065 seconds and hit the waters 30 to 40 km away from Guam.

Finally, the KPA Strategic Force said it will finally complete the Guam
attack plan by mid-August, so it may be the case that North Korea will launch
one if not more Hwasong-12 rockets in the coming weeks.



* * *



The full KCNA statement is below:



Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) General Kim Rak Gyom, commander of the Strategic
Force of the Korean People's Army, released the following statement on August
9:



As already clarified, the Strategic Force of the KPA is seriously examining
the plan for an enveloping strike at Guam through simultaneous fire of four
Hwasong-12 intermediate-range strategic ballistic rockets in order to
interdict the enemy forces on major military bases on Guam and to signal a
crucial warning to the U.S.



On Tuesday, the KPA Strategic Force through a statement of its spokesman
fully warned the U.S. against its all-round sanctions on the DPRK and moves
of maximizing military threats to it. But the U.S. president at a gold links
again let out a load of nonsense about "fire and fury," failing to
grasp the on-going grave situation. This is extremely getting on the nerves
of the infuriated Hwasong artillerymen of the KPA.



It seems that he has not yet understood the statement.



Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only
absolute force can work on him. This is the judgment made by the service
personnel of the KPA Strategic Force.



The military action the KPA is about to take will be an effective remedy for
restraining the frantic moves of the U.S. in the southern part of the Korean
peninsula and its vicinity.



The Hwasong artillerymen of the KPA Strategic Force are replete with a strong
determination to fully demonstrate once again the invincible might of the
force, which has developed into a reliable nuclear force of the Workers'
Party of Korea and the world, strongest strike service, through the planned
enveloping strike targeting the U.S. imperialist bases of aggression.



The Strategic Force is also considering the plan for opening to public the
historic enveloping fire at Guam, a practical action targeting the U.S. bases
of aggression.



This unprecedented step is to give stronger confidence in certain victory and
courage to the Korean people and help them witness the wretched plight of the
U.S. imperialists.



The Hwasong-12 rockets to be launched by the KPA will cross the sky above
Shimane, Hiroshima and Koichi Prefectures of Japan. They will fly 3356.7 km
for 1065 seconds and hit the waters 30 to 40 km away from Guam.



The KPA Strategic Force will finally complete the plan until mid August and
report it to the commander-in-chief of the DPRK nuclear force and wait for
his order.



We keep closely watching the speech and behavior of the U.S.

The bottom line is that while Trump expects Kim to relent, the North Korean
leader clearly has no plans to do that, and demands the same from Trump,
which also won't happen. How this crisis is resolved in a peaceful,
diplomatic way under these conditions remains unknown, if not impossible.



===============================

North Korea details Guam missile plan as it scoffs at Trump

Christine Kim and Martin Petty

6 MIN READ



SEOUL/GUAM (Reuters) - North Korea dismissed warnings by U.S. President
Donald Trump that it would face "fire and fury" if it threatened
the United States and outlined detailed plans on Thursday for a missile
strike near the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam.



Experts in South Korea said the plans unveiled by the reclusive North
ratcheted up risks significantly, since Washington was likely to view any
missile aimed at its territory as a provocation, even if launched as a test.



North Korea's apparently rapid progress in developing nuclear weapons and
missiles capable of reaching the U.S. mainland has fueled tensions that
erupted into a war of words between Washington and Pyongyang this week,
unnerving regional powers and global investors.



World stocks fell for a third day, with shares in Seoul slumping to a
seven-week low, after North Korea said it was finalizing plans to fire four
intermediate-range missiles over Japan to land 30-40 km (18-25 miles) from
Guam, adding detail to a plan first announced on Wednesday.



Guam, a tropical island more than 3,000 km (2,000 miles) to the southeast of
North Korea, is home to about 163,000 people and a U.S. Navy installation
that includes a submarine squadron, a Coast Guard group and an air base.



As announced by North Korea, the planned path of the missiles would cross
some of the world's busiest sea and air traffic routes.



The North Korean army would complete its plans in mid-August, ready for
leader Kim Jong Un's order, state-run KCNA news agency reported, citing
General Kim Rak Gyom, commander of the Strategic Force of the Korean People's
Army.



"The Hwasong-12 rockets to be launched by the KPA (Korean People's Army)
will cross the sky above Shimane, Hiroshima and Koichi Prefectures of
Japan," the report said. "They will fly 3,356.7 km (2,085.8 miles)
for 1,065 seconds and hit the waters 30 to 40 km away from Guam."



While North Korea regularly threatens to destroy the United States and its
allies, the report was unusual in its detail. It follows two successful tests
of an intercontinental missile by the isolated state in July and a series of
other missile tests.



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"Even if the North's missiles do not hit the ocean territory of Guam,
the U.S. will not tolerate such a provocation simply because it is a severe
threat to its national security," said Cha Do-hyeogn, visiting
researcher at the Asian Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul.



Masao Okonogi, professor emeritus at Japan's Keio University, said before the
latest KCNA report that Pyongyang may be issuing a warning or advance notice
of changes to its missile testing program rather than threatening an attack.



"I believe this is a message saying they plan to move missile tests from
the Sea of Japan to areas around Guam," he told Reuters. "By making
this advance notice, they are also sending a tacit message that what they are
going to do is not an actual attack."



Major airlines that fly over the region however said they had so far made no
plans to change flight paths.



AVOIDING MISCALCULATION



FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reacts with scientists and
technicians of the DPRK Academy of Defence Science after the test-launch of
the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 in this undated photo
released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang July
5, 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS

"Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and
only absolute force can work on him," KCNA said of Trump. Trump had said
on Tuesday that any threats by North Korea would be "met with fire and
fury like the world has never seen."



Visitors and residents on Guam appeared to be taking things in their stride.
The main beach front on the island was packed with tourists dozing under
trees or on the sun loungers of five-star hotels lined up before a calm sea.



Governor Eddie Calvo said Guam had experienced a Japanese invasion in World
War Two and countless earthquakes and super-typhoons, and there was no U.S.
community better prepared to meet the North Korean threat.



"We are concerned about these threats but at the same time we also want
to make sure people don't panic and go on with their lives. Enjoy the
beaches," he said.



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Lee Choon-geun, senior research fellow at South Korea’s state-run Science and
Technology Policy Institute, said there was a risk that any missile could
land much closer to Guam than planned.



"The United States will consider it an apparent attack if it lands
within its territorial waters and, given the risks involved, will most likely
try to shoot them down before they land anywhere close to Guam and its
territorial sea," Lee told Reuters.



"This could elevate the threats to an unprecedented level."



The U.S. Seventh Fleet currently has six Aegis ballistic missile defense
ships in the region capable of targeting North Korean missiles, and Japan has
a further four. Guam also has a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)
anti-missile system, similar to one recently installed in South Korea.



Japan could legally intercept a North Korean missile headed toward Guam, its
defense minister said on Thursday, but experts believe Japan does not
currently have the capability to do so.



The United States and South Korea remain technically still at war with North
Korea after the 1950-53 Korean conflict ended with a truce, not a peace
treaty.



Tension in the region has risen since North Korea carried out two nuclear
bomb tests last year and the intercontinental missile tests, all in violation
of U.N. Security Council resolutions. Trump has said he will not allow
Pyongyang to develop a nuclear weapon capable of hitting the United States.



U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis issued a stark warning on Wednesday,
telling Pyongyang it would lose any arms race or conflict.



"The DPRK should cease any consideration of actions that would lead to
the end of its regime and the destruction of its people," Mattis said in
a statement, using the initials for North Korea's official name, the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea.



Washington has warned it is ready to use force if needed to stop North
Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear programs but that it prefers global
diplomatic action. The U.N. Security Council unanimously imposed new
sanctions on North Korea on Saturday.



Additional reporting by Patricia Zengerle, Susan Heavey and John Walcott in
WASHINGTON, Soyoung Kim in SEOUL, William Mallard, Tim Kelly, Kiyoshi
Takenaka and Linda Sieg in TOKYO, and John Ruwitch in SHANGHAI; Writing by
Raju Gopalakrishnan; Editing by Nick Macfie



=====================================



Why North Korea Is Planning Long-Range Missile Flight Tests Over Japan and
Toward Guam

What an unusual statement out of North Korea tells us about its future
missile testing plans.





By Ankit Panda

August 10, 2017







On Thursday morning, hardly 48 hours after U.S. President Donald J. Trump
first threatened “fire and fury” for continued threats, North Korea released
an unusual statement through its state-run Korean Central News Agency.



The statement built on another first released on Tuesday evening, which
hinted at a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile test near Guam.



Thursday’s statement dug in further, noting that the “Strategic Force of the
[Korean People’s Army] is seriously examining the plan for an enveloping
strike at Guam through simultaneous fire of four Hwasong-12 [IRBMs].”



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The statement grew stranger toward its conclusion.



North Korea included detail about the prospective trajectory for its launch
in detail that I cannot recall seeing in a KCNA statement on a prospective
ballistic missile launch to date.



The statement noted that the four Hwasong-12s will “cross the sky above
Shimane, Hiroshima, and Koichi Prefectures of Japan.”



It continued, noting that the missiles would fly for 3,356.7 kilometers over
1,065 seconds. The missiles would “hit the waters 30 to 40 kilometers away
from Guam.”



The specificity of those numbers suggests that North Korea has already
calibrated a trajectory and is waiting to carry out a test.



So, what exactly is going on here?



First, it’s worth emphasizing that this statement is not stating intent to
strike Guam itself. North Korea famously despises the U.S. territory, which
hosts U.S. Pacific Command’s bomber fleet at Andersen Air Force Base.



In its statement on Monday, North Korea called the Guam-based B1-B Lancers
the “air pirates of Guam,” underlining its distaste for the regular Korean
peninsula overflights. Even though the U.S. Air Force’s B1-Bs are physically
incapable of delivering nuclear payloads today, North Korea continues to see
the system as an nuclear delivery platform.



North Korea’s nuclear strategy, which I have discussed at length in a recent
article with Vipin Narang, sees Guam as a major first strike target within
the Pacific theater. North Korea would endeavor to use its Hwasong-12 IRBM
for such an attack, seeking to disarm the United States of its forward-based
bombers at Guam early in any crisis. (It’s older IRBM, the Musudan, appears
to have been temporarily retired after a troublesome test record in 2016.)



Thursday’s statement, while not suggesting an imminent strike plan, is
nonetheless highly disconcerting for other reasons. In 1998, North Korea tested
its Taepodong-1 satellite launch vehicle, overflying Japan to much criticism.
That test generated immense controversy and precipitated its self-imposed
testing moratorium. While the moratorium spectacularly collapsed in 2006,
North Korea has never since overflown Japan with any missiles with the
exception of its failed 2009 launch of the Taepodong-2 SLV, which landed in
the Pacific.



Last year, in August, North Korea tested a Nodong medium-range ballistic
missile (MRBMs), which landed in Japan’s 200 nautical mile exclusive economic
zone. The splashdown of that Nodong was the first such splashdown also since
the late-1990s.



Following that Nodong test, multiple North Korean missile tests in the Sea of
Japan have splashed down in Japan’s EEZ, including the two most recent
Hwasong-14 intercontinental-range ballistic missile (ICBM) tests.



I suspect that the August 2016 Nodong test was intended as a litmus test by
North Korea to gauge Japan’s reaction to an EEZ splashdown. While Tokyo
reacted with elevated rhetoric and temporarily mulled an open-ended intercept
order for its PAC-3 missile defense batteries, it did not take any steps to
deter future testing.



As a result, North Korea continued testing its missiles further into Japan’s
EEZ. The July 28, 2017, Hwasong-14 ICBM even resulted in video footage of the
suspected reentry vehicle being captured from Hokkaido.



The EEZ splashdowns, with the exception of a March salvo test of Scud 2
MRBMs, have an important developmental use for North Korea. Given its constraint
of generally avoiding overflights of Japan (certainly with ballistic
missiles, if not SLVs) and intent to test out longer-range,
higher-performance missiles like the Hwasong-12 IRBM and Hwasong-14 ICBM,
North Korea has continued to test its missiles at lofted trajectories.



While lofted trajectories can be useful for testing engine performance,
airframe robustness, and certain aspects of the reentry vehicle’s structural
integrity in descent, there is important developmental value in testing
longer-range missiles to full range.



One benefit for North Korea of a full range flight test would be a more
realistic terminal stage experience for the reentry vehicle. Lofted
trajectories can produce structural stresses in excess of what the reentry
vehicle might experience in descent during a minimum energy trajectory
flight; similarly, lofted trajectories can also reduce the duration and
intensity of temperature-based stresses for a reentry vehicle.



North Korea’s July 28 test, where the reentry vehicle descended from an
incredibly high apogee of 3,700 kilometers into the Sea of Japan, likely was
primarily intended to demonstrate full-range performance of the engines and
operational launch procedures. North Korea notably did not make any claim
that the reentry vehicle survived that test as it had done after the July 4
test.



This is where Thursday’s statement comes in. North Korea is likely setting
itself up to carry out full-range flight tests of its new IRBM and ICBMs. It
will seek to test them at operational useful trajectories for long-range
strikes and, in the process, likely seek to prove its reentry vehicles and
gather data on the long-range accuracy of these systems.



Strangely enough then, the Thursday KCNA statement, with its granular
breakdown of a potential trajectory, serves almost as a Notice to Airmen
(NOTAM; credit to Dave Schmerler for that observation). North Korea normally
has filed formal NOTAMs before its satellite launches, but never for
ballistic missile tests.



While Thursday’s statement was certainly unusual, it isn’t entirely out of
the blue for North Korea. Analysts had suspected that Pyongyang might seek to
conduct a full-range flight test, but it was always unclear if they would one
day overfly Japan out of the blue. Now, it seems that Kim Jong-un has chosen
to give the Japanese — and the Americans — sufficient notice of its intent.



Importantly, Thursday’s statement hinted at a launch date later this month,
should Kim Jong-un give the order. Incidentally, the United States and South
Korea will convene their annual Ulchi-Freedom Guardian military exercise
soon, giving North Korea what it sees as sufficient cause to stage a
developmental missile test that will also serve as a show of force.



Unsaid so far in this analysis is the matter of strategic escalation. Make no
mistake: a salvo launch of four Hwasong-12 IRBMs within tens of kilometers of
Guam would be the single most threatening direct action that North Korea
would have ever taken against U.S. territory. That has serious implications for
U.S. strategic decision-making, allied reassurance toward Tokyo, and even
escalation.



First, Washington and Tokyo would have to decide whether or not to attempt an
intercept of the IRBMs in flight using their SM-3 interceptors. Normally, the
United States and Japan do not intercept missile tests because they are able
to collect useful data on the performance of North Korea’s missiles and avoid
unnecessary escalation with Pyongyang.



A launch that would overfly Japan and land tens of kilometers off Guam is
another matter altogether. The United States’ defense commitments to Japan
would make rationalizing an interception a simple matter; indeed, for
Washington to maintain credibility in the eyes of its allies, it would be
compelled to attempt interception over the Sea of Japan using SM-3s.



IRBM interception, however, is no simple matter and the SM-3 Block IA and
Block IB interceptors would not be up to the task. Interception over the Sea
of Japan would likely require the more impressive Block IIA, which has seen
recent testing failures (albeit, allegedly due to human error).



Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) batteries in Guam may be able to
take a shot at the incoming IRBMs in their terminal stage depending on a
range of factors. THAAD, however, has just entered testing against IRBM-class
targets. Finally, even if THAAD succeeds, the missiles would have already
overflown Japan by the time they enter engagement range for the Guam-based
batteries.



In the end, the prospect of successful interception of one IRBM would come
down to a great number of variables going in the favor of the United States
and Japan. Even if one missile is successfully intercepted, the odds of going
four-for-four with North Korea’s Hwasong-12 salvo over the Sea of Japan using
SM-3s are likely to be vanishingly low.



If a single North Korean reentry vehicle successfully splashes down near
Guam, the credibility of U.S. missile defense assurances would take a
tremendous hit, shaking the faith that Japan and other allies have in Washington’s
assurances. Moreover, for the United States, the pressure to respond
militarily would be considerably amplified, presenting the risk of an
escalation spiral.



Either way, Kim Jong-un has signaled a course of action and, whether or not
he chooses to act, the outcomes appear to be in his favor.



If he orders a salvo test and no interception attempts occur, he acquires
valuable data, potentially proves North Korea’s reentry vehicles, and then
proceeds to declare the Hwasong-12 operational.



If he orders a salvo test and the U.S. and Japan attempt interception but
fail to make contact with all four missiles, U.S. defense assurances and
credibility take a hit. In any scenario where a ballistic missile is allowed
to overfly Japan into the Pacific, this remains true.



Finally, even if Kim Jong-un is to take no action after this KCNA release,
the prospect of overflying Japan is now on the table. It is possible too that
the statement is an attempt at bargaining, but this appears unlikely given
the tone and explicit statement that “sound dialogue is not possible with
[Trump].”



2017 began with assurances out of North Korea that it would test an ICBM when
ready. Kim Jong-un has already done so twice and tensions between Washington
and Pyongyang remain exceptionally high.



Actions like those outlined in Thursday’s KCNA statement would seriously
increase the possibility of armed conflict between North Korea and the United
States, which would draw in South Korea and Japan. Moreover, any such
conflict is unlikely to remain below the nuclear threshold given what we know
about North Korea’s self-professed nuclear strategy and nuclear use
pressures.



It may not be up to the Trump administration at this point whether or not
North Korea chooses to carry out what would be an immensely provocative salvo
test. What will be up to the Trump administration will be the response
thereafter and continued coordination with allies in the meantime.



Those decisions will determine whether escalation with North Korea will be
inevitable or whether the existing uneasy peace can persist beyond 2017.



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Stop The Bluster - North Korea Is A Nuclear Weapon State



The Washington Post headlined today: Trump threatens ‘fire and fury’ in
response to North Korean threats



Just another Trump bluster, I thought. Such are mo longer a reason to read a
story. But what are those "North Korean threats" he
"responded" to? I had not seen any of those. Diving into the story
I found :



President Trump used his harshest language yet to warn North Korea on Tuesday
that it will be “met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which
this world has never seen before,” if it does not stop threatening the United
States.

...

It was not immediately clear what Trump was responding to.

The Washington Post needs to fire its headline writer. Why assert that Trump
responded to "threats" when there were none? Why assert a reason
when you have no fucking clue why he did what he did?



A different shabby site claims that the base for Trump's played-up nonsense
was a WaPo piece published the day before:



The president was responding to a report in the Washington Post that,
according to a confidential U.S. intelligence assessment presented late last
month, the North Korean regime has “successfully produced a miniaturized
nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles.”

That report was again just bluster. The DPRK (North Korea) had announced a
miniaturized nuclear device in March 2016. It even published pictures of it.



On July 4th the DPRK launched its first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. A
second test was successfully launched on July 29 under realistic operational
conditions. The DPRK successfully tested nuclear devices at least five times
- including a hydrogen device with potentially megatons of explosive power.
It has enough nuclear material for some 40-60 weapons. All DPRK claims about
progress in its missile and nuke programs have, sooner or later, been proven
as truthful. There was and is no reason to doubt its March 2016 assertion.



North Korea is for all practical purposes a nuclear weapon state with the
ability to deliver nukes onto the continental United States.



This is not news. Talk about "fire and fury" or an ultimatum to
North Korea or of preemptive strikes is all nonsense. Nothing the U.S. can do
to North Korea can prevent a response that would nuke and destroy Washington
DC or some other U.S. city.



North Korea has good reasons to want nukes and the U.S. missed all chances to
remove those reasons. It is way too late to lament about that.

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Ron Paul Institute: "Only Morons Believe What The US Government Says
About North Korea"



Tyler Durden's picture

by Tyler Durden

Aug 10, 2017 2:20 PM

Authored by Daniel McAdams via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &
Prosperity,







Usually foreign analysts of the American political scene are either
sycophantic or just annoying, but no one would dare say that about Aussie
observer Caitlin Johnstone, whose punk rock style of cutting to the chase is
as refreshing as it can be shocking (I am not a fan of the strong language,
but I get it).



Since President Trump's "fire and fury" explosion yesterday
Americans have to an unsettling degree once again rallied 'round the (false)
flag of war propaganda. Today Ms. Johnstone provided a much-needed slap in
the face to the mind-numbed masses once again clamoring for US bombs on a
country they could not find on a map if their lives depended on it.











As even many soi-disant libertarians reverted back to playing war commander
on their keyboards -- "I'm all for a non-interventionist foreign policy,
but THIS GUY'S GONNA KILL US!!!" -- Johnstone reminded anyone with half
a brain of one eternal truth: Governments and their house servants (the
mainstream media, neocons, deep state, etc) are murderous liars and the only
way they dare flush a few hundred billion dollars -- and oceans of blood --
down the toilet of war is to first lie their brains out to the people they
are confident will swallow the poison pills and call them candy.



Of course the United States government and its minions are lying about North
Korea, Johnstone reminds us. They ALWAYS lie!



She writes:



The United States power establishment has an extensive history of using lies,
false flags and propaganda to manipulate its hundreds of millions of citizens
into supporting needless military interventionism.



From the Gulf of Tonkin incident to the false Nayirah testimony to the
amazing network of lies spun about Saddam Hussein to the 'humanitarian'
intervention in Libya to the unconscionable Bana Alabed psy-op in Syria,
there is no depth to which the US war machine will not stoop in deceiving the
public about the need to unload the military-industrial complex’s expensive
inventory onto some third world country overseas, no limit to the evils that
America’s unelected power establishment will commit in order to secure
geopolitical dominance, and no end to the mass media propaganda machine’s willingness
to report war propaganda as objective fact.



It is quite literally impossible to be too paranoid about these people. If
you had an acquaintance who was a known compulsive liar with an extensive
history of duping people into fighting one another for his own sociopathic
amusement, how would you react if he handed you a gun and told you that your
neighbor is getting ready to attack you?

This might prove shocking even to some "libertarians" caught up in
the frenzy of manufactured threats. But the US government lies. They lie day
and night. All the time about everything.



Johnstone concludes:



There is one government in the mix here that has proven itself completely
sociopathic and untrustworthy in such matters, and it ain’t the DPRK. Stay
skeptical, stay watchful, and stay woke.

"Oh no," people squeal! "THIS time they're telling the
truth!"



Good luck with that. Blood's on your hands, not ours.



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MFL5591's picture

MFL5591 Aug 10, 2017 2:22 PM

Thanks Ron, the only voice we have of reason!



boink.voink's picture

boink.voink MFL5591 Aug 10, 2017 2:25 PM

Well Zionist hedge is full of Morons, who do believe what the MSM & Alt
media is feeding them, just more doom porn for the morons !!



Bay of Pigs's picture

Bay of Pigs boink.voink Aug 10, 2017 2:28 PM

Sarc right?



Alt-RightGirl's picture

Alt-RightGirl Bay of Pigs Aug 10, 2017 2:30 PM

Only morons believe the Jewvernment.



Here Paul, fixed it for you.



The Egomania of the Jews: Chutzpah, Ethnocentrism and the Separation Solution



http://dailywesterner.com/news/2017-08-10/the-egomania-of-the-jews-chutz...





tmosley's picture

tmosley boink.voink Aug 10, 2017 2:31 PM

Ron and Co don't understand pacing and leading, it seems.



Hasn't anyone noticed that Trump adopted the mannerisms of North Korean
propoganda?



Has no-one noticed that he is playing the "bad cop" to Tillerson's
"good cop"?



No, there won't be any war. What you see is both sides positioning for
negotiations to come. NoKo will launch their missiles at (the area around)
Guam, and we will attempt interception. Then the actual negotiations will begin.



The issue will be solved within 12 months.



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The_Juggernaut MFL5591 Aug 10, 2017 2:29 PM

Summary:



"they're lying because they always lie and everyone who disagrees with
me is stupid."







Thanks a bunchf. I usually only see this kind of horseshit from the left.



ne-tiger's picture

ne-tiger Aug 10, 2017 2:22 PM

There are too many of them here



EuroPox's picture

EuroPox Aug 10, 2017 2:29 PM

Finally some truth!



And, this is what the NOK govt is telling its own people about sanctions/weapons/etc
- not a mention of 'Guam'...



http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?strPageID=SF01_02_01&newsID=2017-0...



If Kim really had threatened Guam, would he not want to boast about it to his
own people?



tangent's picture

tangent Aug 10, 2017 2:25 PM

Will nukes some day be as simple as owning a 3D printer and the correct
amounts and types of plutonium or uranium? Nuclear proliferation is a problem,
but the US has no moral grounds to end it given they are not reducing their
nukes right now.



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Philo Beddoe tangent Aug 10, 2017 2:28 PM

To really protect ourselves we should all carry a pocket nuke if some kind.
For home protection and to kill game. Not sure how the founding fathers did
not forsee this.



Imagine all the little mushrooms clouds going off in the hood?



Bam_Man's picture

Bam_Man Aug 10, 2017 2:25 PM

Insouciant.



ParkAveFlasher's picture

ParkAveFlasher Bam_Man Aug 10, 2017 2:32 PM

Even if I agreed with the assertion, more than a little bit of virtue
signaling here.



Infinite QE's picture

Infinite QE Aug 10, 2017 2:25 PM

80-90% of 'mericans are idiots.



Philo Beddoe's picture

Philo Beddoe Aug 10, 2017 2:25 PM

Yeah, the Momons are gullible.



dasein211's picture

dasein211 Aug 10, 2017 2:26 PM

Laaawwwd have merrhhhsaaaayyy!!!



Atomic Punk's picture

Atomic Punk Aug 10, 2017 2:26 PM

Thank you Ron! Now, where's Numbnutz(A.K.A. Frozennutz)?



wisehiney's picture

wisehiney Aug 10, 2017 2:27 PM

"....clamoring for US bombs on a country they could not find on a map if
their lives depended on it."



Excellent point.



Best line of the month.



unplugged's picture

unplugged Aug 10, 2017 2:28 PM

he could have stopped at:



"Only morons believe what the US Govt says"







natxlaw's picture

natxlaw Aug 10, 2017 2:28 PM

Amen to this. Wake up, people!



Quinvarius's picture

Quinvarius Aug 10, 2017 2:30 PM

Only morons think NK isn't going to nuke us the second they think they can
pull it off. This article is ridicluous. The ignorance being peddled is
pathetic. There is absolutely no way around this war. The only question is
how many nukes do you want them to have when it starts. This is not Bush's
retarded Iraq invasion. This isn't Obama's mistakes in Ukraine and Syria and
Libya. This is real. Wake the F up, you retards. Educate yourselves on North
Korea before popping off. Your cowardice isn't going to save any lives.



sirsmokum's picture

sirsmokum Aug 10, 2017 2:29 PM

And its true.



c2nnib2l's picture

c2nnib2l Aug 10, 2017 2:29 PM

well if you think about it NK done absolutely nothing wrong and never
attacked anybody



Dickweed Wang's picture

Dickweed Wang Aug 10, 2017 2:29 PM

Again, what are they really trying to distract us from with all the Nork Orea
bullshit?? Something big is up and it ain't that.



Alananda's picture

Alananda Aug 10, 2017 2:29 PM

Jim Stone also has a voice of reason. Let them with eyes...and a mind....



http://82.221.129.208/



http://82.221.129.208/baaaasepaageb9.html



UPDATE TO THE NORTH KOREA FALSE FLAG REPORT



Many readers notified me that the pages on the REAL North Korean government
web site were coming up blank. If I can see them, they are not arriving blank
for everyone. So the site is probably regionally censored, which I'd expect,
because it is guaranteed to not be a false front. It is the real deal. If the
U.S. government uses .gov web addresses, why would the Korean government use
.com? FACT: Government run web sites use IP addresses that go directly back
to the home country and are designated for government. If any
"official" North Korean government web site you get linked to does
not end in rep.kp. be very suspicious, it is not a
guarantee it is fake, but it is certainly a very strong indicator.



ANYWAY, because the New World Order can't handle letting people see the real
Kim Jong web site, and instead censored the crap out of it thus forcing me to
endure an hours long time wasting search, and then they censor it after I
post it, for those who can't see it even via a direct link, here it is, and
it is a de-facto confirmation that the entire Guam story is BULLSHIT. If they
were really going to test 4 ICBM's aimed at Guam, surely it would be in the
headlines here because the other missiles are, yet there's not a peep!



One thing I'd like to point out here is that this web site does not look like
it belongs to a nice country. They are unabashedly honest with what they are.
But this does confirm that the stories being told to America right now to set
up the precedent for a false flag HAVE TO be total B.S.



You can't be serious! Someone I am going to have to call an idiot asked why
the page was in English, when at the top of the page there are links to the
other languages! Sometimes I wonder if people send stuff like that to anger
me, or hope for one last trip up. Obviously, since the U.S. is in a mode of
absolute threatening belligerence, they posted their site in English also,
Just like Iran does with ALL OF THEM, in the hopes of having Americans get a
shred of truth!











Deep In Vocal Euphoria's picture

Deep In Vocal E... Aug 10, 2017 2:32 PM

SMOKE AND MIRRORS..............







Same old trick same old show by the same old people..











You are paying for it, american taxpayer. The funds are coming out of your
pockets. You are guilty of crimes against humanity. In accessory to the
crime.



me123me's picture

me123me Aug 10, 2017 2:32 PM

Not buying it. This is real. They have been doing missle tests before our
eyes.



2ndamendment's picture

2ndamendment Aug 10, 2017 2:32 PM

You didn't need to put the "about North Korea" on the end of the
title.







You could have stopped with "Only Morons believe what the US Government
says"
On
Nagasaki Anniversary, North Korea Threat Tests Japan's Nuclear Taboo
http://www.northkoreatimes.com/index.php/sid/254288588