North Korea Believed to Have Fired Pukguksong-2 MRBM into the East Sea
The Kim regime appears to have waited by the Beijing Olympics to end before restarting their missile test program. They also appear to have no hesitation about starting provocations with an actual major war going on in Ukraine:
North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, in the recalcitrant regime’s eighth show of force this year.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it detected the launch from around the Sunan area in Pyongyang at 7:52 a.m., and that the missile flew about 300 kilometers at a top altitude of 620 km.
The latest launch, the first in just under a month, came 10 days ahead of South Korea’s presidential election and amid the armed conflict in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion of the country last week.
“For other specifics on the missile, the intelligence authorities of South Korea and the United States are conducting a detailed analysis,” the JCS said in a text message sent to reporters.
“Our military is tracking and monitoring related (North Korean) movements and maintaining a readiness posture,” it added.
The North is presumed to have fired the missile from a Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL) at a steep angle from the Sunan airfield, informed sources said, raising speculation it could be a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM).
The missile appears to be similar to the Pukguksong-2 missile, a road-mobile solid-fuel MRBM, known to be the North’s ground-based variant of its submarine-launched ballistic missile, the Pukguksong-1, according to observers.
Yonhap
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High probability:
– China attacks Taiwan within days
– NK hassles SK to keep USFK/USFJ busy
America, Canada, France, England, Germany… there will never be such a collection of painfully weak and misguided leaders again for a generation.
On a plus side, I bet over the last week there has not been a single discussion in Ukraine about misgendered pronouns.
Progress of civilization comes where you least expect it.
OTOH, Elon Mush did something nice:
https://twitter.com/adamcarolla/status/1497730476458471424
High probability:
– China attacks Taiwan within days
That’s a maximum of 7 days, otherwise it’s a week.
Y’all be waiting for CH’s missive next week:
“Ah apologize to y’all … “
Sad thing about leftists is they can’t meme nor laugh at themselves.
Before 0bama, they still had some sense of humor; but Trump literally broke them all. We lost a lot of great comedians to whatever mental illness gripped them.
Now, instead of being masters at it—as they once were—they can’t even recognize sarcasm or appreciate it.
Truly sad.
Let’s play the “probably” game.
Yuri Bezmenov told me in 1990 that the KGB could probably (85%) turn Trump into Putin’s stooge.
Stephen,
In January when I said Putin would go into Ukraine on the 21st of February… by recognizing the breakaway regions and moving invited peacekeepers in… and then making any counter attack an unprovoked attack on Russia, everybody said “no way”, “you don’t understand”, “blah blah blah”.
Motive, method, and opportunity were all present.
Further, big companies and government agencies were pulling people out at an alarming rate.
“If Russia really isn’t going into Ukraine, a lot of different groups who are the best informed are spending a lot of time, money, and opportunity to make me think it is going to happen.”
“But but but…”
And here we are.
To my discredit, I did not see a full-scale invasion. But looking back, I probably should have.
So let’s look at China.
Do they have a motive? Absolutely.
Do they have the means? Perhaps. They have been probing Taiwan’s defenses for months. If Taiwan is reacting honestly, China has a good idea what they are up against. They are having a military exercise in the area. Where have we heard that before?
Do they have opportunity? The best they ever had or will have again. The western leadership is a collection of puppets, dummies, and weaklings. No population has a lust for war.
The American navy crashes their ships and sets them on fire. Their planes don’t work right. Their warfighters are composed of trannies and women trained in tolerance rather than battle. The top officers are diversity hires pushing for more minorities and homosexuals instead of promoting merit.
The impotent floundering by the west in dealing with war in their back yard is a good clue about how effective they will be in dealing with whatever Chinese do to Chinese on the other side of the world. And apart from some virtue signaling flag waving in a crowd that would be labeled a superspreader event if it was demanding freedom for Americans, nobody will do anything that requires a single bit of sacrifice.
And the west has let its manufacturing ability disintegrate so much that it is impossible to boycott China. Go ahead. Try. Especially when Taiwan is no longer a supply option.
China would be foolish not to make their move within the week while Ukraine is still hot. They will never get a chance this good.
Putin and Xi worked this all out… or at least circumstantial evidence points to this.
Now, the counter evidence is, unlike Ukraine, connected government and corporations aren’t pulling people and assets out of Taiwan. That is pretty powerful evidence they don’t think anything is going to happen.
So let’s see.
… everybody said “no way”, “you don’t understand”, “blah blah blah”.
Who is this everybody you speak of Kemosabe?
Even Aljazeera agreed with you … on 11th February 2022 by quoting Jake Sullivan.
Jake Sullivan, US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said at a White House media briefing on Friday that US observations and intelligence show Russia has all the military elements in place needed for an invasion of Ukraine.
“We continue to see signs of Russian escalation, including new forces arriving at the Ukrainian border,” Sullivan said. “As we’ve said before, we are in the window when an invasion could begin at any time should Vladimir Putin decide to order it.”
You need to get out of the Murdoch Foxhole with Tucker Carlson and read more widely.
Carlson needs to woke up.
Stop dreaming of his proposed new shows on Murdoch-Fox:
Tucker in the Middle (of Trump and Putin), I love Vladdy and I Dream of Vladdy.
Apologies to Barbara Eden if she reads this.