Posted on 12/08/2017 3:49:52 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
It is a strange study in contrasts. In the dead of night, a ballistic missile lifts off from a secret launch pad in North Korea, overflies the Sea of Japan, and lands in Japanese waters.
It is a hi-tech feat of weaponry intended to terrorize North Korea’s near neighbors, and send shock waves of fear all the way across the Pacific to the United States. It succeeds in doing both.
A couple of days before, however, a very different scenario unfolds. A desperate defector attempts to flee Kim Jong-un’s socialist paradise. Shot five times by his one-time “comrades” in the North Korean army, he nevertheless manages to crawl across the DMZ to freedom.
Even without the wounds, this example of North Korean soldiery was in miserable physical condition. The doctors found that he was badly anemic and suffering from hepatitis B. But the real shocker comes when they address the gunshot wound to his abdomen. They find that his intestines were crawling with foot-long parasitical worms.
If one of Little Rocket Man’s prize border guards was in such bad physical shape, what does this say about the rest of his million-man army? Perhaps his much-touted war machine is not all that combat ready after all?
Still there is that little business about his launch of an ICBM capable of reaching American shores.
Which raises the question: How did a country so impoverished that its soldiers are sick and hungry manage to build nuclear weapons and deploy ballistic missiles?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Missiles made by Musk.
Dog-eating, fat boy had/has help. The CIA has its work cut out for it.
When it comes to the CIA, my views on gun control are reversed.
I know this sounds extreme, but extreme dirty deeds against the Constitution call for an extreme response: I think all CIA agents should be denied the right to carry weapons.
You mean pretending not to be playing both sides?
It managed to build nuclear weapons and deploy ballistic missiles BECAUSE the country was kept impoverished. This isn't rocket science here...
NK couldn’t have done this without external help. They are a proxy for China, Russia or Pakistan.
I'd hate to be any of those "comrades." Wouldn't be surprised if Kim had them all tortured and executed for failing to carry out his wishes; namely, to kill the deserter rather than simply wounding him and allowing him to escape.
Bingo. North Korea will continue to be like it is now until after all US soldiers leave the peninsula. If our plan is to keep troops in SK forever, NK will have nuclear weapons and be annoying for ever. China will not allow US soldiers on it’s borders. They will fight an all out war and use their nuclear weapons over this, if it comes to that. There is no solution to this problem but to disengage.
This is the issue where we really separate the nationalists from the internationalists.
Couldn’t disagree more. America has a moral obligation not to abandon SK to what would be a conventional assault by superior numbers of NK fanatics. Vietnam all over again. Little Rocket man needs to be taken out. China will not risk its largest customer to defend mini madman.
"""How do we know this? Because for the last few years the Japanese navy has sortied out whenever a North Korean missile took flight, searching for parts and pieces of the missiles that have splashed down in the Sea of Japan. As more and more pieces have been recovered and analyzed, one thing has become increasingly obvious. Virtually everything that went into the missiles, from the electronic circuits and sensors, to the fuel tanks and valves, was “Made in China.”"""
All those willing to surrender to some blood thirsty, extremely cruel dictator in a tiny country, please raise you hands ...
Looks like we have another unreformed neocon running loose.
Nope. We have obligations only to ourselves. Your failure to grasp that Chinese is not solely motivated by money like you are is typical of older, globalist leaning conservatives.
Oh gee thanks that really hurt ...
You’re obviously elderly. I take pity on you.
You are obviously a young and obnoxious newbe.
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