Breaking...North Korea says seriously considering plan to strike Guam

kandlekid · Aug 9, 2017

Forget any negotiating. It's fruitless to negotiate with a megalomaniac. Let Kim know we are going to take him out. We don't desire regime change. Just justice.

Tony Stark · Aug 9, 2017

“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen,”-President Donald Trump

Trump has drawn his red line

OddTrader · Aug 9, 2017

Tony Stark said:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...87ae4b0449ed506602b?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

Trump’s Warning To North Korea Called ‘Exactly Wrong’ And ‘Reckless’

“That is about the stupidest and most dangerous statement I have ever heard an American president make.”

By Matt Ferner

President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to North Korea on Tuesday promising to unleash “fire, fury and, frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before” if the country continues to escalate its threats against the U.S.

“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Trump said Tuesday in a short statement to reporters before a meeting on the national opioid crisis. “They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. [North Korean leader Kim Jong Un] has been very threatening beyond a normal state.”

Trump’s remarks at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, only add tension to an already dangerous standoff with North Korea, several experts who spoke to HuffPost warned. Over the years, the U.S. has attempted to prevent the growth of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and development of missile technology at various times using sanctions, diplomacy and the threat of military action. But nothing has fully obstructed the nation’s advancements.

“That is about the stupidest and most dangerous statement I have ever heard an American president make,” John Mecklin, editor-in-chief of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said to HuffPost. The Bulletin created the “Doomsday Clock,” a symbolic representation of humanity’s proximity to apocalyptic destruction.

Trump’s remarks followed reports Tuesday from NBC News and The Washington Post that North Korea has developed a nuclear warhead small enough to fit inside one of its long-range missiles.

The successful miniaturization of a nuclear weapon would mark a major advancement for North Korea’s nuclear program. While U.S. intelligence officials do not know whether North Korea has tested the miniaturized warhead yet, the reports come on the heels of two recent successful test-launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the U.S.

Trump’s remarks closely followed fierce rhetoric from Pyongyang in response to new international sanctions against the isolated communist nation. “Should the U.S. pounce upon the DPRK with military force at last, the DPRK is ready to teach the U.S. a severe lesson with its strategic nuclear force,” Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said in a statement, using the acronym for the official name, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

While North Korea’s strong language came as no surprise ― Kim has put out countless declarations of war against the U.S. throughout the years ― Mecklin argues that Trump’s response of heightened rhetoric is “exactly backwards.”

“It’s exactly wrong. It increases the likelihood of nuclear war. And those kind of threats are just not something an American president should make,” Mecklin said.

In January, Mecklin’s group moved the Doomsday Clock’s minute hand 30 seconds closer to midnight ― the hour symbolizing global catastrophe. The minute hand is now at 2½ minutes to midnight, closer than it has been since 1953, when it hit 2 minutes following the testing of hydrogen bombs by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Trump’s comments on nuclear arms and climate issues were among the factors the group took into consideration in advancing the clock this year.

MIT linguistics professor emeritus and renowned foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky agreed with Mecklin’s assessment. “Trump’s statement is extremely dangerous,” Chomsky said. According to the professor, the only reasonable approach the U.S. should take with North Korea is to “pursue the negotiating option put forth by China and North Korea, based on North Korea’s freezing its nuclear and weapons programs and the U.S. ending threatening military maneuvers on North Korea’s borders,” and then seek to move forward from there.
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Now that whether Trump will be visiting the pacific coast or the pacific coast people don't really want Trump to visit them!

To visit, not to visit, that would be a question!

fhl · Aug 9, 2017

vanzandt · Aug 9, 2017

"Best not make anymore threats to the United States"
(Usually don't hear a New Yorker saying "best not". His inner circle is obviously rubbing off on him)
Either way... he just drew the proverbial line in the sand.
And two hours later we get this.
This is serious and it can't be dealt with remotely via phones and teleconferences.
He needs to get off the fucking golf course and return to DC.
Playtime's over.

viruscore1 · Aug 9, 2017

publicly announce 10 million bounty on his head, maybe one of his generals will take him out.

Tony Stark · Aug 9, 2017

vanzandt said:
"Best not make anymore threats to the United States"
(Usually don't hear a New Yorker saying "best not". His inner circle is obviously rubbing off on him)
Either way... he just drew the proverbial line in the sand.
And two hours later we get this.
This is serious and it can't be dealt with remotely via phones and teleconferences.
He needs to get off the fucking golf course and return to DC.
Playtime's over.
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Yep.We are closer than ever to a second Korean war (due to Trump) and The President is running foreign policy and making threats from a golf resort

Nine_Ender · Aug 9, 2017

Tony Stark said:
Yep.We are closer than ever to a second Korean war (due to Trump) and The President is running foreign policy and making threats from a golf resort
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Some Americans seem to love war and violence as long as they feel safe personally. Trump is doing his best to get a war started; somebody should brief him on why it's a bad thing. I remember seeing Trump wave to South Korean ladies golfers at a recent pro event at his club and thinking I sure hope he's not responsible for a war in their country.

OddTrader · Aug 9, 2017

July 26 2017

Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's first female PM, faces financial ruin and jail

http://www.theage.com.au/world/ying...-legal-battle-for-legacy-20170726-gxj0yq.html

Ms Yingluck questioned a move by the military government in Bangkok to freeze her assets in relation to a $US1 billion ($1.2 billion) fine imposed over one of her government's policies to subsidise rice farmers, the latest in a barrage of legal battles she has fought since leaving office.
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Spike Trader · Aug 9, 2017

Trump Evangelical Adviser: God Is Totally Cool With Nuking North Korea
“God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un.”

A right-wing pastor who serves on Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board claims God has given the president “full power” to launch an attack on North Korea.

Robert Jeffress, head of the First Baptist Dallas megachurch, told CBN on Tuesday that a biblical passage in Romans allows rulers to use “whatever means necessary ― including war ― to stop evil.”

He said:

“In the case of North Korea, God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un. I’m heartened to see that our president ― contrary to what we’ve seen with past administrations who have taken, at best, a sheepish stance toward dictators and oppressors ― will not tolerate any threat against the American people.”