Tag Archives: North Korea

Here’s what the media isn’t telling you about North Korea’s recent missile tests.Last Monday, the DPRK fired a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan’s Hokkaido Island. The missile landed in the waters beyond the island harming neither people nor property. The media immediately condemned the test as a “bold and provocative act” that showed the North’s defiance of UN resolutions and “contempt for its neighbors.” President Trump sharply criticized the missile test...

Fascinating interview. The InterceptUndercover in North Korea: “All Paths Lead to Catastrophe”Jon Schwarz

Donald Trump has chided China for failing to take responsibility for its dangerous neighbor. But America's president should be careful what he tweets for: If China launched a military invasion of North Korea, it could work – and China would gain greater strategic parity with the US in East Asia. Project SyndicateA ‘China First’ Strategy for North Korea Bill Emmott, former editor-in-chief of The Economist

Feeling like a deer in the headlights yet? In what we believe is a significant escalation and potentially a hint as to the president's thinking, President Trump said during a phone call with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the US remains committed to defending its territories and allies using all "diplomatic, conventional and - here's the big one - nuclear - capabilities at our disposal."  This is the first time Trump has explicitly referenced possible involvement of nuclear...

Preliminary report, but in some depth compared with others. Definitely an upping of the ante in the game of strategy.Moon of AlabamaThe Peanut - North Korea Tests A New Nuke - Continues To Press For Negotiations bSee alsoSouthFrontTrump: The US considers “stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea”lkb22

Part one of backgrounder on Korea. It's a must-read for understanding the situation today.Sic Semper TyrannisMAYDAY KOREA! William R. Polk

You can rest easy. The nuclear threat narrative was a hoax according to these scientists. The Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsNorth Korea’s “not quite” ICBM can’t hit the lower 48 statesTheodore A. Postol, professor of science, technology, and national security policy at MIT, and Markus Schiller, Robert Schmucker, engineers

As usual Moon is critical.Moon of AlabamaHyping North Korea To Relaunch Reagan's Star Wars? b

North Korea is not going to launch a first strike on America or its allies with nuclear weapons. To understand this, you don’t need to know anything about the history of U.S.-North Korea relations, or the throw weight of intercontinental ballistic missiles, or even where North Korea is. All you need to know is human history. And history says that small, poor, weak countries tend not to start wars with gigantic, wealthy, powerful countries — especially when doing so will obviously result...