Posted on 08/14/2017 4:21:29 PM PDT by mandaladon
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has vanished from the public eye for two weeks, South Korean media reported, prompting fears that he may be preparing to mark Tuesday’s public holiday by firing a new rocket.
The last time Kim went days without being seen was prior to the ICBM launch in late July, when he remained incognito for two weeks before making his grandiose public appearance. His public withdrawal comes as nuclear tensions mount between Washington and Pyongyang, and on the heels of the leader’s threat to attack the U.S. island territory of Guam.
On Tuesday, North Korea is set to commemorate the Korean Peninsula’s liberation from Japan at the end of World War II.
Adding to the speculation of an imminent rocket-fire test, last week U.S.-based North Korea watchdog site 38 North released satellite imagery of a submarine base in the hermit country, showing that tarps had been placed above both the fore and aft decks of the Sinpo-class submarine base, presumably to conceal any inside movements.
However, other analysts have also pointed out that Kim has previously disappeared for lengthy periods due to an unknown “physical condition.” Furthermore, his father, Kim Jong Il, disappeared for around six weeks after the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, prompting speculation that he simply may have felt threatened.
Trump vowed last week that the U.S. would respond with “fire and fury” and is “locked and loaded” should North Korea dare come close to carrying an attack on the U.S. territory of Guam. Pentagon officials have told Fox News that the U.S. military stands ready to “fight tonight.”
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Diabetic coma from too many egg rolls at the Phat Boys All U Can Eat Middle Kingdom Uber-Buffet.
He’s at a spa in Arizona trying to lose some weight.
Thanks for great memories.
That's my take. I wish that President Trump would have just quietly Tweeted "We have the coordinates." and left the hand-wringers try to figure out on who or what.
He’s probably on the phone with Trump.
The Donald: “So you plan to take out San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago?”
“Yeah, you got a problem with that?”
“Sure do. Why is L.A. not on that list. Nobody there voted for me either.”
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Japan knew that if they did not use the Philippines as an “aircraft carrier” sitting in the Pacific, the U.S. would. They couldn’t very well get the Philippines but leave the U.S. Pacific fleet in tact in Hawaii. Pearl Harbor was attacked to extend how long Japan had to build up its bases all around Asia, starting with the Philippines and its great harbor at Subic bay. Before the U.S. could get its act together Japan had bases all the way down the Pacific and around to Thailand.
I don’t think the dictator of North Korea has any such grand intentions of possibilities in front of him.
“You fool!! When I said `nuke the Chinese’, I meant put the carryout in the microwave!!!”
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During the NORKs ICBM missile launch, fat little Kim was visable from our satellites for nearly an hour.
We should have pulled the trigger from a killer satellite at that time.
It was leaked that we had him in our sights and you have to know that shook the little shit up and sent him in to hiding.
If his generals (or China) ever have a moment of clarity, one of these times he will disappear and never reappear.
The Chinese summoned him, he went to China, they said “knock it off!” Got his pee pee whacked.
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