After the “fire and fury like the world has never seen” rant by alleged president Trump, we were deluged with media reports of how North Korea was return-threatening to hit Guam with missiles.
Well, that isn”t exactly what they were threatening. Its more like surrounding Guam with missiles. Like intentionally missing missiles.
North Korea has defied threats of “fire and fury” from Donald Trump, deriding his warning as a “load of nonsense” and announcing a detailed plan to launch missiles aimed at the waters off the coast of the US Pacific territory of Guam.
A statement attributed to General Kim Rak Gyom, the head of the country’s strategic forces declared: “Sound dialogue is not possible with such a guy bereft of reason and only absolute force can work on him”. The general outlined a plan to carry out a demonstration launch of four intermediate-range missiles that would fly over Japan and then land in the sea around Guam, “enveloping” (bracketing) the island.
“The Hwasong-12 rockets to be launched by the KPA [Korean people’s army] will cross the sky above Shimani, Hiroshima and Koichi prefectures of Japan,” the statement said. “They will fly for 3,356.7 km for 1,065 seconds and hit the waters 30 to 40km away from Guam.”
So, its not comforting to have missiles flung in the vicinity of Guam, but it is very different than if they were meant to hit Guam directly. Intent counts in criminal law, and maybe in international relations.
The more important point is that Trump is stirring up this crisis to detract from the noose that is tightening around the criminal enterprise that he has headed for decades.
Thursday, Aug 10, 2017 · 4:49:49 AM +00:00
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Karl Rover
I don”t have any opinion about the ability of NK to fire missiles accurately or not. The diary was primarily about the threatened intent to hit Guam, as almost universally reported, or not, which is what was actually stated.
Also, it is all deflection. Trump is throwing up a smokescreen over his stayinginoffice problem, and NK is throwing up burning water buffalo chip smoke as usual.
Thanks for the comments and good night.