{"id":25897,"date":"2017-09-21T06:04:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25897"},"modified":"2017-09-21T06:04:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:04:41","slug":"presidential-bomb-threats-at-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25897","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Bomb Threats at the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presidential Bomb Threats at the UN<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Donald Trump denounced North Korea and its president Kim Jong-un as \u201cdepraved\u201d before the United Nations Sept. 19, saying the nation \u201cthreatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of life.\u201d Of course, North Korea can barely feed itself, and yet has to defend itself against an onslaught of Western hostility, UN sanctions, and ongoing US\/South Korean war games which are rehearsals for an invasion of the North. It tests rockets and bombs to be sure, just as the US and its allies and adversaries do all year round. It\u2019s big business.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s claim that North Korea is threatening is preposterous since it has no deliverable nuclear weapons at all. Secretary of Defense James Mattis said last week that North Korea is no danger to the United States. In June 2016, the Institute for Science and International Security reported that Pyongyang may have between 13 and 21 warheads. The CIA, whose job it is to find hostile weapons (even where they don\u2019t exist) says Pyongyang has at most about 21. US intelligence agencies\u2019 combined estimates are that while it may have miniaturized a nuclear warhead, North Korea has no missile that can drop them on the United States. The Federation of American Scientists is more skeptical and estimates it has \u201cpotentially produce[d] 10-20 nuclear warheads.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like an 8th grade imbecile contradicting and humiliating himself in nearly every sentence, Trump claimed in his speech that North Korean President Kim Jong-un \u201cis on a suicide mission.\u201d In April 2016 Trump had called Kim a \u201csmart cookie.\u201d There is absolutely no evidence of Kim being suicidal, in fact quite the opposite since the North\u2019s military missile and nuclear program are aimed at fending off a repeat of the Korean War in which, according to US Air Force General Curtis LeMay, \u201cwe burned down every town in North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Presidential Bomb Threats at the UN Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair Donald Trump denounced North Korea and its president Kim Jong-un as \u201cdepraved\u201d before the United Nations Sept. 19, saying the nation \u201cthreatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of life.\u201d Of course, North Korea can barely feed itself, and yet has to defend itself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5493,7844,12087,8312,2006,1109,826,862],"class_list":["post-25897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-laforge","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-sanctions","tag-united-nations","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25898,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25897\/revisions\/25898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}