Interesting read on war with North Korea

[Full Otto]

He's lying about wanting ties to SK, unless those ties allow him to invade, As to his nukes ready to go at the press of a button, all I can say is look where appeasement got the world with Hitler. If there isn't regime change in NK, or Iran for that matter, nukes will fly....

No need to go back to Hitler although this article alludes to that as well:

Thank Carter and Clinton for North Korea's Nukes
http://www.americanthinker.com/artic...eas_nukes.html


At the time, Mr Clinton said: “This US-North Korean agreement will help to achieve a long-standing and vital American objective: an end to the threat of nuclear proliferation on the Korean peninsula.

“This agreement is good for the United States, good for our allies, and good for the safety of the entire world.

“It’s a crucial step toward drawing North Korea into the global community.”

and then

President Obama’s eight years of “strategic patience” sealed the deal. Unfortunately, his nuclear deal with Iran is the 1994 Framework deal with North Korea on steroids. Ironically, North Korea and Iran have worked hand-in-glove to develop the missile technology to deliver nukes. Now it has $150 billion and Obama’s blessing to test the missiles to deliver the nukes we may only have delayed the development of.

[alismith]

We need more Liberal/Communist Dimocrats in high offices.....

[5.56NATO]

No need to go back to Hitler although this article alludes to that as well:

Thank Carter and Clinton for North Korea's Nukes
http://www.americanthinker.com/artic...eas_nukes.html


At the time, Mr Clinton said: “This US-North Korean agreement will help to achieve a long-standing and vital American objective: an end to the threat of nuclear proliferation on the Korean peninsula.

“This agreement is good for the United States, good for our allies, and good for the safety of the entire world.

“It’s a crucial step toward drawing North Korea into the global community.”

and then

President Obama’s eight years of “strategic patience” sealed the deal. Unfortunately, his nuclear deal with Iran is the 1994 Framework deal with North Korea on steroids. Ironically, North Korea and Iran have worked hand-in-glove to develop the missile technology to deliver nukes. Now it has $150 billion and Obama’s blessing to test the missiles to deliver the nukes we may only have delayed the development of.

And the fing Russians and Chinese are caught red handed (lol red handed get it lol) supplying NK with their needs, despite sanctions. I suppose the thing is going to go hot sooner or later, especially now cia/mossad has started regime change in Iran proper. I can't see Moscow accepting regime change in its stalwart moslom partner.

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China ‘warns off’ US destroyer in South China Sea
US warship conducts FONOP day after Trump’s tariff move; Will carrier join Chinese Navy exercise?
http://www.atimes.com/article/china-...h-china-sea/An alarming warning by Sergei Lavrov and Chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, was announced via the RT broadcaster and several Russian media. The content is explosive and deserving of the widest possible dissemination. Gerasimov claimed that Moscow had "reliable information that fighters are preparing to stage the use by government troops of chemical weapons against the civilian population." He alleged that the US intends to accuse Assad's troops of using chemical weapons against civilians, and then "carry out a bombing attack" on Damascus.
Gerasimov warned that Russia would "take retaliatory measures" if the US targeted areas where its military are located in the Syrian capital. "Russian military advisers, representatives of the Center for Reconciliation and members of military police" are currently in the Syrian capital, Gerasimov said, adding that in the event that the lives of Russian military personnel are placed in danger, the Russian Armed Forces will respond with certain measure to both “missiles” and their “launchers”. A few hours earlier, Lavrov responded, "criticizing the remarks by the US envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley, about Washington’s readiness to “bomb Damascus and even the presidential palace of Bashar Assad, regardless [of the] presence of the Russian representatives there.” “It is an absolutely irresponsible statement,” the Russian top diplomat added.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...ia-russia-says

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Michael Pillsbury: Trump Seeks to Thwart China’s Hundred-Year Plan for Economic and Military Dominance
“They knew this was coming,” he concluded. “The prime minister gave a press conference saying that China wants to open up further, wants to welcome more foreign investment, is totally for free trade, would never steal anybody’s intellectual property. He went through in this press conference almost point-for-point what President Trump was going to say today, and said China would not dream of doing these things.”
Pillsbury cautioned that many Americans retain an “out of date” image of China as poor, technologically backwards, and reluctant to provoke economic warfare with wealthier nations while so many of its people struggle with poverty.
“I wrote my book against that idea,” he said. “One of President Trump’s key advisers, who was obviously present today at the meeting with the president and has gone on television since, is a gentleman – a professor, actually, University of California Irvine in the past – named Peter Navarro. Very courageous fellow, he wrote three books blowing the whistle on Chinese unfair trade practices.”
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/...ary-dominance/

China Launches Massive Military Drills "In Preparation For War"
ust hours after the latest close military encounter between the US and China, when the US navy sailed a destroyer to within 12 nautical miles of the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea as a "freedom of navigation" operation - a move that China condemned as a "severe provocation" just as the two countries launched an all-out trade war - the Chinese military launched its spring combat readiness drills with an air force exercise in the West Pacific and a joint combat patrol mission in the South China Sea.
The air force drills include H-6K bombers and Su-30 and Su-35 fighters, according to the PLA , and have a simple, if clear, purpose: "Air Force exercises are rehearsals for future wars and are the most direct preparation for war," the Chinese Air Force said on its Weibo account on Sunday, according to Reuters.
"The more exercises China practices far from its shores the better it will be positioned as an important force for managing and controlling crises, containing war and winning battles", it added.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...reparation-war

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China’s naval and air forces began what observers described as unusually large exercises in the Western Pacific and South China Sea this weekend, including H-6K bombers, Tu-154 reconnaissance planes, Yun-8 transport planes, and Su-30 and Su-35 fighters.
The Su-35 is a highly advanced fourth-generation fighter that has only been sent to the South China Sea for drills on one previous occasion. The H-6K bomber is capable of carrying long-range cruise missiles that can threaten ships or ground targets, possibly with nuclear warheads.
The combat drills passed over the Miyako Strait near Okinawa, which lies between Japan’s southern islands. The strait also happens to be located between Japan, Taiwan, and the Senkaku Islands, where Japan, Taiwan, and China all have conflicting territorial claims.
The Chinese military described the exercise as its “best preparation for war,” according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
“Air force exercises are rehearsals for future wars and are the most direct preparation for combat,” the Chinese air force said in a not-very-reassuring statement.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-se...na-sea-drills/


Global Times: US To Unveil China Tariff List "In A Few Hours"; Beijing Will Respond
Last Friday, when the word was wondering why China "responded" with just $3 billion in US tariffs to the proposed 60 billion in "Section 301" duties to be levied by the Trump administration on China, it was Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of China's state-owned nationalist tack-on of the People's Daily, Global Times, who explained that the $3 billion in tariffs targeting 128, mostly agricultural products, was in response for the formerly revealed "Section 232" steel and aluminum tariffs which, while exempting much of the world, clearly had China in their crosshairs.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...g-will-respond





My take is these tariffs need to apply equally to every country, not just China. There are several "friendly" countries that screw us in trade, to include Canada and Mexico - who are both exempt from the tariff even though they screw us.

[Full Otto]

Thaw Continues: NKorean Leader Kim Watches Performance by SKorean Pop Stars
https://stream.org/nkorean-leader-ki...ean-pop-stars/
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un clapped his hands as he, along with his wife and hundreds of other citizens, watched a rare performance Sunday by South Korean pop stars visiting Pyongyang, highlighting the thawing ties between the rivals after years of heightened tensions over the North’s nuclear program.
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“We should hold culture and art performances frequently,” Kim told South Korean performers.

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I can see why some thawing might occur


Of course there might be new escalations between Kim and his wife