Posted on 03/29/2013 12:17:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You know the rule by now: If the headline asks the question, the story most likely provides the less exciting/sensational/terrifying (in this case, definitely the third) answer. From the very Telegraph article that Drudge links to:
Despite the increasingly belligerent rhetoric and new images emerging from the North Korean regime, analysts believe its missiles are not capable of striking targets as far away as the US mainland and are not, as yet, capable of delivering a nuclear payload.
North Korea's state-media announced earlier today that Kim Jong-un has ordered his missile units on standby to strike the United States and South Korea. The bluster was accompanied by a photo containing a not-so-secret (or believable) message: a chart over Kim Jong-un's shoulder showing a "U.S. mainland strike plan." NK News took a closer look at the chart and discovered what appears to be the reclusive nation's public wish list: Hawaii, Washington, D.C., Southern California (Los Angeles or possibly San Diego), and Austin, Texas. The first three make sense given geography and politics; no one seems to have any clue about how that last one made it on.
Given how unpredictable Kim Jong-un has already proved, the latest threat isn't entirely being brushed off by the international community. Still, the Pentagon doesn't appear to be very worried. "The United States is fully capable of defending itself and our allies,” Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Catherine Wilkinson told reporters in Washington today. "North Korea’s bellicose rhetoric and threats follow a pattern designed to raise tensions and intimidate others."
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Hey Cathy, you guys can't even defend our border with Mexico, or defend the people of the U.S. from this ever controlling dictatorial socialist running the government.
Whoa, Sgt. Friday, you can't blame that on the Pentagon. If they had orders to defend the border, the border would be defended.
Tell me Dizzy, if Mexico was smuggling in thousands of tons of drugs and God knows what else, as million entered from the south illegally during war time yet, choking off our entire system, including undermining our very electoral process, would the Pentagon just sit on their asses because the controlling socialist running the government didn't order to do anything?
Oh wait, that's been happening for decades....
Ya fell safe now Dizzy?
By the way, the gross domestic product of Texas is at least three times that of North Korea.
Don’t mess with Texas.
It’s good advice.
Ya feel safe now Dizzy?
How long would it take for V Corp to secure the border if given such an order?
Only the Texans who don’t like Junior Brown, Bill Kirchen, Robert Earl Keen Jr, and, well, the list goes on and on.
DC, LA, Austin - Is this guy channeling some conservative?
We live upwind & upriver from Austin - about 55 miles as the buzzard flies - so no complaint here..... and when we drive to TAMU, we can take Hwy 29 East over to Taylor, we can avoid most of the destruction....
Maybe he’s a Oklahoma Sooner fan, guess the horns down symbol isn’t good enough to show his hate for the Longhorns.
Where does he find enough wackjobs to follow him?
Never mind... there are enough to follow o’stoner so...
RE: By the way, the gross domestic product of Texas is at least three times that of North Korea.
From Googling.
GDP of North Korea — $32.7 Billion USD
GDP of Texas — $1.142 TRILLION
Texas’ GDP is THIRTY TIMES larger than North Korea’s.
The GDP pf the State of Texas is just about the same as South Korea’s even with just almost HALF of South Korea’s population.
No, the rest of Texas is thinking, “How can I help.” or “Do you need any donations?”
“Tell me Dizzy, if Mexico was smuggling in thousands of tons of drugs “
If Americans weren’t using the drugs the smuggling would greatly diminish...right? Drug using Americans have the blood of many thousands of murdered Mexicans and others on their hands because the users’ addictions!
What? 150 replies and no “It’s bush’s fault!” lol
RE: Give me a plane ticket to Seoul and an M-14 and I’ll solve the problem within a week of arrival.I’ll just pick off every one of the dozen...or so...fat turds that I see in the capital and one of them’s *bound* to be him.I mean...how many *fat* turds can there be there country?
OK Folks, let’s not confuse our allies in Seoul with our enemy in Pyong Yang.
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