N. Korea warns use of nukes on first strike

The Washington Times ^ | October 17th, 2016 | By L. Todd Wood

[Mariner]

North Korea, angered by what it says are increasingly “aggressive” exercises in the South in conjunction with U.S. forces, said it will strike first with nuclear weapons if it feels threatened. North Korea also stated it will continue nuclear tests after its recent, 5th nuclear event and will continue ballistic missile testing. The North has launched over 20 ballistic missile shots in recent months as it strives to increase its ability to deliver payload on target.

“The US has nuclear weapons off our coast, targeting our country, our capital and our dear leader, Kim Jong Un. We will not step back as long as there’s a nuclear threat to us from the United States,” said Lee Yong Pil, director of the Foreign Ministry’s Institute for American Studies, reports NBC News.

“If we see that the US would do it to us, we would do it first,” Lee said. “We have the technology. We have to have nuclear weapons to protect our country, and it’s our policy to go nuclear.” Lee also stated North Korea has the ability to launch a missile that could hit the west coast of the United States. American intelligence doesn’t believe this claim as of yet.

[Mariner]

If the US would just put the modern equivalent of the Pershing II in Japan and S Korea...200 of them, China would put an abrupt end to this sh!t in search of a deal.

Just ask the ghost of Reagan.

[RC one]

North Korea has first strike capability now.

That happened on Obama's watch btw.

Thanks again Obama.

[JPG]

The Nork leadership is begging to be squashed like a bug.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Ping

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Trump should use this to point out the failures of the Clinton administration in preventing North Korea from getting nukes. We enter into an agreement, we provide them with nuclear reactors, and now they are threatening a first strike capacity. We were led to believe that the Clinton-brokered deal would prevent North Korea from getting nukes, just like they are telling us that the Iran deal will prevent Iran from getting nukes. Trump should point out the connection and irony.

[Husker24]

They can barely get their sh!t buckets off the ground let alone hit anything.

[plain talk]

The obvious question to NK is

” Does NK believe other countries should exercise a nuclear first strike if they feel threatened?”

[MeganC]

One of these days they’re going to use a nuke because they’ve convinced themselves that no one is going to retaliate against them.

Were I President I’d notify Beijing of The Megan Doctrine:

Any use of a nuclear weapon by North Korea on the US, Japan, or South Korea will be considered an attack on the USA by China and we will respond accordingly.

Then I’d leave it to the Chinese to housebreak their pets.

[VTenigma]

The left has just done a stellar job the last 8 years bringing peace and harmony to the world with their policies. I can see now the Nobel committee was very forward looking in giving the Peace prize to Ovomit.

[butterdezillion]

BAsically NK is telling us they could nuke us any time. How convenient for Obama. Reagan’s experts believe they do have the capability, via a satellite with an elliptical orbit that puts it over continental US and allows it to exploit the hole in our southern radar defense. But that satellite is tumbling so it would probably be the Iranian satellite that would be used to EMP us. What makes us vulnerable is the fact that we have no south-facing radar.

I think what’s going on is NK and Iran - who share everything with each other anyway so they’re basically one entity - are playing tag team. NK tests missiles so that we feel like we need our portable radar system there to protect South Korea and Japan, which leaves the US’s south side wide open for Iran to hit us as they’ve said they would.

And right on schedule, Obama is ramping up trouble with Russia, who (together with China) has developed a financial system that would survive the collapse of the US economy. Kevin Freeman, author of “Secret Weapon”, believes that China and/or Russia may euthanize the US economy when it would be most helpful to them, rather than let the US debt kill us naturally. Seems like Obama is making sure that BEFORE ANY OTHER POTUS CAN BE ELECTED/INAUGURATED would be the most “helpful” time for Russia/China to hit us.... And NK and Iran are both allies so they can be used to do the dirty.

An EMP would have added benefits for China. They own a lot of our debt, and the whole world knows there’s not enough money in the whole world for us to ever pay it back. I suspect China may be coming after the collateral, and an EMP attack would leave the infrastructure intact for when the Chinese take over (minus the grid, which would have to be rebuilt).

But they would have to act BEFORE Obama’s owners, the Islamists, have their “Zero Hour” (the full-on attack of sleeper cells, etc to claim the US for the worldwide caliphate, which Obama knew would become mandatory for all Muslims once the Islamic State was set up at his urging against the wisdom of all his advisors). Neither the Chinese nor the Russians tolerate Islamists. An EMP attack would eventually wipe out the Islamists here along with the rest of us, if the Russians/Chinese can invade soon enough to cut off the Islamists’ strategic control. An EMP would leave no nuclear fallout but would rapidly be deadly to large numbers of people who aren’t prepared.

Heck, with Obama still at the helm of the US military, Russia and/or China would be welcomed right in to carpet-bomb the whole country if they wanted, as long as Obama didn’t much care that his Islamist buddies got their jihad wish to send them to their 70 virgins...

Somebody should make sure Air Force One is out of commission, to keep Obama from heading to Cuba and South America to yuk it up with his communist pals in November and December. And they should make sure that the bunker that was secretly expanded under the White House (while calling speculators “conspiracy theorists” for suggesting that was really what was going on, instead of plumbing repairs...) is not available to Obama, his family, or his regime. If we die, they need to die right along with us. Or better yet, if they want to save themselves they better forget about destroying us...