Who can really possibly know what they are imagining is going on. What Kim-bo is pushing on the propaganda media there in the North is anybodies guess.
Its winter solstice combined with a lunar eclipse, just from the very bottom of my gut it is telling me to be more than usually aware, yes I am in Alaska, no I am not in any branch of the service and yes I can pretend to be an armchair General.
A lot of cultures use significant natural events as turning points of their history, especially warfare.