Clock Ticking For North Korean People As Their Crazed Leader Threatens to Attack Guam "Next Week"

TOWSON, Maryland, Thursday, August 10, 2017 - According to North Korean state-run radio, Kim Jung-un, the insane leader of the woebegotten nation, has asked for a plan to fire four missiles at the USA Territory of Guam. The General responsible for getting this plan together says un will have the plan sometime next week.  Once the plan is in his hand, all that remains to do is launch the missiles toward Guam.  North Korea says the plan is to have the four missiles "envelop" Guam by landing 20 miles off the shoreline all around the island.  Some 200,000 American Citizens reside in Guam, and the island is also home to a very large and important United States Naval installation.  The White House has assured the civilian leader there that the USA will protect Guam.  Everybody everywhere knows, by now, that President Trump has openly threatened to rain down the fires of hell on North Korea if it attempts to go ahead with such an insane attack.

The United Nations has levied heavy sanctions against un and his nation.  It did so by a 15-0 vote, with all leading nations on the Security Council voting with the USA in favor of the sanctions, including China, the United Kingdom, France and Russia.

Sebastian Gorka, the esteemed defense advisor of President Trump, reminded un that the world has never seen a nation so powerful as These United States.  

The ChinaDaily web page had this news directly from North Korea:
"General Kim Rak Gyom, commander of the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army (KPA), was quoted as saying in a statement that the Strategic Force is considering "the plan for opening to the public the historic enveloping fire at Guam, a practical action targeting the US bases of aggression."


"The Hwasong-12 rockets to be launched by the KPA will cross the sky above Shimane, Hiroshima and Kochi Prefectures of Japan. They will fly 3,356.7 km for 1,065 seconds and hit the waters 30 to 40 km away from Guam," he said.

A factor that un hasn't duly considered - or mentioned - is that any attack on Guam will necessitate that North Korea's weapons fly directly over Japan.  The Japanese Government has announced that it will consider such an act extremely seriously.  Imagine what Russia or China would do if a nation flew weapons of mass destruction directly over their land, land that is heavily populated.  Such a provocative act will require a military response.

But what if, say pundits, those four missiles are aimed at off-shore targets 'near' Guam, and then those missiles do, in fact, land off sure.  What, then, will the military advise President Trump to do?  What will the President do?

Let us put it this way:  I would not want to be in North Korea if that happens.  Recently, the USA dropped a huge bomb on mountain hideouts of ISIS and the Taliban in Afghanistan.  The result of such an attack was completely unbelievable.  And even though the hideouts were hardly heavily populated, dozens and dozens were killed.  In that instance, President Trump had told the military that it had his permission to use such a weapon any time and any place they felt it would benefit USA interests.  One wonders if the President has already told the military that they have his permission if North Korea fires a weapon towards Guam.

Or, will the USA attempt to attack the launch pad of such missiles.  Personally, that seems a prudent plan.  And I like the idea of keeping the battle in North Korea, where they deserve whatever the USA does.  The further North Korea's weapons are from any USA target, the better.

A very large problem in considering North Korea is the open narcissistic insanity of Kim Jong-un.  He, or She, or It - we cannot be positive of what the creature actually is - fell out of the community of sane humans decades ago.  Some say he was born a whacko.   If the creature had a sane side, negotiations would be possible, and sane planning would be possible.  But past Presidents have reached signed agreements with his evil regime, only to watch him laugh and violate them at every turn.  Clinton, Obama and both President Bush's have tried to reason with him.  All of out defensive nuclear weapons have been removed from South Korea.  Might we just go ahead and put them back?  Probably not necessary, and it might tempt un to attempt to bull-rush the South Korean border to capture such weapons.

Some of the web sites authored by the Chinese Government strongly suggest that it is the responsibility of the USA to scale back the threat of war.  That, of course, is all well and good, but words of peace are absolutely useless when the other wide is launching dangerous weapons of mass destruction at your citizens.  The only way the United States will even think of acting first is if it becomes convinced that is the only way to keep North Korea and its insane leader from attacking USA territory.

If you lived in North Korea and discovered that your leader was going to fire four rockets at the world's most proficient nuclear power and "hope" they hit off the shore, well, it is not a comforting thought.  

A commentator in Baltimore (Sean Casey, WCBM) pointed out this week that the USA will be loathe to launch nuclear weapons inasmuch as some 29,000 American Troops are in and around the Korean Demilitarized Zone, a location that is in the line of any fire toward South Korea and subject to the consequences of any radiation released from a nuclear weapon fired in hostility.

A very well informed and pragmatic man by the name of Eric X. Li wrote a stunning article about North Korea in, of all places, the Washington Post.  It was Li's opinion that prior talks with North Korea failed, but not by much.  He believes they were close to success but failed because they tried to combine strategic negotiations with ideological talks.  Right now, clearly, it is the strategic talks that are necessary.  The ideological stuff can wait.  Cool the hair trigger in un's hand.  In fact, cool un off.  The Li piece will provide everyone with a condensed background of the tension between the two nations and a possible avenue for ending the crisis.  Li's informative and well-reasoned piece can be found at "www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/05/trumps-tough-talk-about-north-korea-might-actually-end-the-crisis/?utm_term=.c485183a02b0"