Showing posts with label North Korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North Korea. Show all posts
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Putin uses ICBM for first time to attack Ukraine, signaling how the war could go nuclear

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 The attack comes two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a revised nuclear doctrine that formally lowers the threshold for ...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

You'd think Trump could spell his name correctly after all that's passed between them, but why congratulate North Korean ascendancy to the WHO?

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It's all just weird. And Jimmy Carter level bad.  
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

GOP candidate positions on Ukraine demonstrate nothing but groveling to the anti-war right

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  And the kernel there is pretending things that are not true, the mark of an unserious country. Nikki Haley is simply incoherent. She says ...
Sunday, May 8, 2022

The pest in North Korea is becoming more problematic

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South Korean defense officials said the missile fired on Saturday appeared to have been launched from an actual submarine, unlike some teste...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

Trump kicks off speaking tour vying for the Sean Penn vote, saying he got on best with communist dictators of China, North Korea, also with Russia's Putin

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 Reported here . Tone deaf, much? My guess is  Sean Penn  still isn't impressed, try as Trump may.
Monday, December 28, 2020

Big news of the day: Russia admits its COVID deaths aren't 54k but are a much higher 186k

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The new calculation is based on an evaluation of excess death data compared with current projections for deaths based on prior years of deat...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

In North Korea Jane Fonda and her "responsible ethically harvested gold and sustainable diamonds" would be executed by dropping a dozen mortar rounds on her glam head

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Friday, May 3, 2019

If you want war with North Korea, Joe Biden is your man

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Sunday, March 3, 2019

People foolishly say Trump gave the Norcoms nothing when he's foolishly curtailing joint military exercises with SK

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U.S. to end large-scale military drills with South Korea: Word of the planned announcement comes less than 48 hours after a summit betw...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Piers Morgan: Trump is kicking Democrats' ass

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Piers Morgan, here : According to the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, Trump is now at 47% approval, compared to Obama’s 45% two weeks bef...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Did Trump voters in 2016 vote for a huge corporate tax cut, war with North Korea, and a DACA amnesty?

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I watched all the rallies and never heard about these things. The enthusiasm was all for The Wall, a symbol of the out of control immi...
Friday, June 15, 2018

Ann Coulter: The rich are like sharks, all appetite and no brains

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Here : Trump thought North Korea was hard? With immigration, we have all of the most influential forces in our culture on the same ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Trump may have kept the issue of US troops in South Korea separate from the North Korea talks, but he still wants them out

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Removing US troops from the peninsula will only give China what it wants. A robust US presence in South Korea, Japan and Guam helps ensure...

Trump's determination eventually to remove US troops from South Korea isn't what the South wants or the North demands

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From the story here in early May: The South Korean government reiterated this week that the troops were still needed and would not be...
Saturday, June 9, 2018

SECDEF Mattis explicitly states US troops in South Korea are not a bargaining chip in North Korea denuclearization talks

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Quoted here : However, Defense Secretary James Mattis said recently at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that any discussion about ...
Friday, May 25, 2018

How the failed North Korean summit is just like Election 2016

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The North Koreans simply failed to show up, as did Hillary's voters. But as with the election, everyone will go on interminably wi...

The idiots at Politico call the Hermit Kingdom "hermetic" after North Koreans fail to show up in Singapore

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Hermits are recluses, the followers of Hermes something else again. Apparently the editor never learned the difference at Carleton College...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Just a reminder: North Korea wants US troops out of South Korea

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A bad idea shared by many, not the least of whom is Pat Buchanan. Reuters reports, here : The North has long said it is open to ev...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

In canceling talks with South Korea over US military drills, Norths demonstrate the wider objective: Removal of US forces from the peninsula

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North Korea cancels meeting with South Korea, threatens to ditch summit with US over military drills
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Was the last North Korean nuclear weapon detonation yield at Mantapsan underestimated by over 100%?

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According to a Wikipedia entry here , the following formula is used to calculate the radius of the crater created by an underground nuclea...