The truth about North Korea barely anyone is talking about is that they aren’t a threat. There is no threat from North Korea. We have a piece of shit president in trouble so he is using the war dog whistle America loves so much. To Trump’s great fortune there is another piece of shit who shares his stupidity talking trash he has zero intention of backing up. It’s like the dumbest flex off in history.
Don’t tell CNN that. They have 24 hour coverage of “the war” planned until they can find another story on Trump and Russia…
The truth about North Korea barely anyone is talking about is that they aren’t a threat. There is no threat from North Korea. We have a piece of shit president in trouble so he is using the war dog whistle America loves so much. To Trump’s great fortune there is another piece of shit who shares his stupidity talking trash he has zero intention of backing up. It’s like the dumbest flex off in history.
You would do well to curb your desire to unleash emotional outbursts before you’ve had a chance to fully think them through.
I’m not going to comment one way or the other on the President’s comments, but to waive off N.Korea as a non-threat exposes you as shockingly poorly informed.
It’s ratings baby! We love war and even the slight hint of a war that will not happen because there is no threat gives us the boners that cause ratings.
OK. I know how you operate. You are right there is a threat. They are a nation with a military so they are a threat. You are right. I am wrong. There is a threat. You win. Write it down. slowguy won.
Now that I have bent the knee allow me to put it this way. North Korea is not the threat we are being fed. North Korea is no where near the threat that is being panicked over.
I want to think slowguy for pulling in my hyperbole. WIthout him I would get in a hyperbole loop.
They are like 99% a threat to South Korea. 0.999% threat to Japan. Maybe 0.0001% threat to the USA.
but that .0001% counts. I was wrong.
Just think a bit. Who started the rhetoric? It wasn’t President Trump. Again, I’m not going to comment on whether his words were well chosen or not, but it’s hard to claim that he’s instigating this tension because of his ratings when the war-like rhetoric was started by N.Korea’s threats in response to UN sanctions.
N.Korea is not an immediate threat to nuke Hawaii. I called out CNN for their alarmism yesterday. However, N.Korea is on their way to being a nuclear power, and we are basically past the point of being able to stop that. They will have nukes, and those missiles will be able to reach the US. They are also a direct threat to S.Korea and the large amount of troops we have on the peninsula, as well as various other allies in Asia.
Yeah. I never said that wasn’t a thing. They are a threat in the way all things are a threat. I have access to two guns (not on me but I can borrow them), some knives and all kinds of chemicals. I have a neighbor I can’t stand. I am a threat to him. I have weapons and a dislike, a threat. The catch is I am not going to harm him because there is no reason too. North Korea has nothing to gain from war. There is nothing saying they are about to do anything. If a war starts it’s going to be the US that starts it and the US isn’t going to start anything.
This is not a story because North Korea is not an imminent threat. I welcome your lecture on threat levels and I will admit I used the term “imminent threat” wrong.
The truth about North Korea barely anyone is talking about is that they aren’t a threat. There is no threat from North Korea. We have a piece of shit president in trouble so he is using the war dog whistle America loves so much. To Trump’s great fortune there is another piece of shit who shares his stupidity talking trash he has zero intention of backing up. It’s like the dumbest flex off in history.
Well written summary.
If Trump’s goal was to stoop down to the level of North Korea - then this is a big win for him!
Indeed, for those outside of a geographic area, this really is no big deal. However, I am sure that in South Korea, there are very legitimate and serious concerns of what might come next.
Although, it’s concerning at some level, because major world conflicts (WW1), have started out, with less benign language and miss-communication.
I agree that you’ve used the term “threat” too loosely.
As it stands right now, NK isn’t a threat to the mainland United States. NK is talking about lobbing some missiles and having them land about 30-40 km offshore from Guam which is a US military installation. But the threat to the mainland US is overblown.
But
NK is a threat to South Korea, and most of the South Korean population lives within artillery distance of NK. NK is a very real, very large threat to them. NK has promised to launch everything it has against SK if there is a hint of an invasion. It’s the only reason that NK is still standing.
Don’t tell CNN that. They have 24 hour coverage of “the war” planned until they can find another story on Trump and Russia…
Uh oh. Among the LR deranged this is clearly a defense of Trump. So now you’re a Trump ballwasher.
NK is a threat to South Korea, and most of the South Korean population lives within artillery distance of NK.
They have been a threat to South Korea long before they had a nuclear weapon. An entire generation grew up with the constant threats coming from the North so for the most part, it is just business as usual.
The only thing that has changed is the U.S President’s comments, which is causing concern here but the rhetoric from NK happened long before Donald J. Trump came to office. There are smart adults in the administration to protect the world from Trump so a lot of the hype is way overblown.
ONCE AGAIN EVERYONE! PAY ATTENTION!
I bow down to all of you. I have phrased something wrong. This is terrible of me. I now put myself before you as a wretch. A slug. A nothing. I can’t believe this sin. Like a real asshole I was talking about a treat to the US. It was very nationalistic of me. It was very wrong of me. This is a great shame that I will never live down.
My point being is that North Korea is not the threat that is currently being sold to us by the US GOVERNMENT AND US PRESS (I am talking about the US media and government not any other nations. There are nations where the government and media of that nation are not selling North Korea as some kind of threat. I am not talking about those nations. I am also aware not all media sources in the US and not all parts of the US government are selling the North Korea threat to the US not the threat to other nations. Now as far as the term sell goes. I accept any and all criticism that selling is the wrong expression. I will also accept any and all criticism of me using the term expression wrong. If I used the word term wrong I also accept that I made that mistake.) We are being snowballed. (If you disagree with the use of snowballed I apologize and would welcome a better word to use.)
The only thing that has changed is the U.S President’s comments
That’s just not accurate.
Leadership in N.Korea has changed in the past handful of years. You can’t look at generations of threats and think this regime is the same as those before.
You mentioned N.Korea sending a missile to within 30-40 km of Guam. Even a couple of years ago, they couldn’t do that. If they can do it accurately, that’s another step, over and above the distance itself.
Once they are able to miniaturize a nuclear warhead to weaponized it, that’s another significant step.
Having a nuclear capability can change a country’s strategic calculus. At that point, their threats have a little more credibility, and the potential risk grows much higher. A country that feels out gunned and outmanned, will behave differently than a country that feels like it’s a member if the nuclear club, and knows that it can do serious damage well outside of its local sphere of influence.
To say that the only thing that has changed is our President and his rhetoric is just not true.
What would North Korea have to gain from a nuclear attack? Or atomic attack? Or thermonuclear attack? Or whatever attack you deem correct?
Don’t tell CNN that. They have 24 hour coverage of “the war” planned until they can find another story on Trump and Russia…
Uh oh. Among the LR deranged this is clearly a defense of Trump. So now you’re a Trump ballwasher.
Notice how you are the only one that brings this up? #fakenews
Hoodwinked
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OTOH, we are an existential threat to the North Korea regime, and always have been.
Don’t tell CNN that. They have 24 hour coverage of “the war” planned until they can find another story on Trump and Russia…
Uh oh. Among the LR deranged this is clearly a defense of Trump. So now you’re a Trump ballwasher.
Notice how you are the only one that brings this up? #fakenews
No. I’ve not. It gets pointed out often by others. Have you not noticed that?