Saturday, April 06, 2013

Sensational News


North Korea moves second missile to east coast amid threats against US
North Korea tells Brit diplomats to get out — then sets chilling April 10 deadline

Hearing the media report about North Korea is exhausting. They are undoubtedly trying to sell advertising in their quest to sensationalize the news. So North Korea has a couple unproven missiles on its east coast -  BIG DEAL! The US and allies can obliterate all of North Korea within 30 minutes (ok, 45 minutes) and intercept any of their malfunctioning missiles. Hearing the media try and generate as much alarm and panic over this news is tiring and insulting to the public. 

But now apparently we have this "April 10th deadline" where the media would like you to believe Kim Jong-un is going to launch a merciless, nuclear strike on all of America. Give it a break already. Our news is starting to sound like the Korean Central News Agency of the DPRK. They may be able to come close to doing that some day, but this is not the day, and they will likely become a sea of radioactive glass before they are credibly able to do so.

What's more likely here is that the US is setting up a pretext to set NK and Iranian nuclear cooperation back by 10 to 20 years by bombing installations in NK, just like the US is taking care of Iran's ally in Syria - al Assad, as I write this.

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