North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho told the U.N. General Assembly Spet. 23 that a nuclear strike against the United States was “inevitable.” For those understanding semantics, “inevitable” designates 100% certainty, confirming the ominous string of threats from North Korea’s KCNA official state news agency. KCNA reported Sept. 14 that North Korea intends to reduce the U.S. to “ashes and darkness,” “sink” Japan and “wipe out” South Korea. Striking back after 71-year-old President Donald Trump promised the U.N. General Assembly Sept. 19 to “totally destroy” North Korea if they continue to threaten the United States. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called Trump and North Korean President Kim Jong-un childish for their public feud. Lavrov won’t admit that when a sovereign state threatens nuclear war against another sovereign state there are consequences, including Trump’s promise to “destroy” North Korea.
Calling Trump “a mentally deranged person full of megalomania and complacency,” Ri accused the U.S. of turning the U.N. into a “gangsters’ nest,” insisting it was Trump, not Kim, who was on “suicide mission.” Trump told U.N. delegates Kim Jong-un was on a suicide mission for himself and his country. Trump sent U.S. Air Force B-1 B Lancer bombers with F-15C Eagle fighters jets over international waters north of the 38th parallel, sending a loud message to Pyongyang that Trump means business when it comes to preventing Kim from getting a nuclear-tipped Intercontinental Ballistic Missile [ICBM]. Hearing Ri tell the General Assembly that a nuclear attack against the United States was “inevitable” pushed up the Pentagon’s timetable for military action. “Now we are finally only a few steps away from the final gate of completing of the state nuclear force,” Ri told the General Assembly.
Tipping his hand, Lavrov said the Americans won’t attack North Korea because of their nuclear arsenal. “The Americans won’t strike because they know for sure—rather than suspect—that it has atomic bombs,” Lavrov told Russia’s NTV. Spewing more propaganda, Lavrov knows that Trump is dead serious about preventing Kim from getting a nuke-tipped ICBM. Lavrov blows smoke about Kim’s current nuclear sophistication, wanting the U.S. to think he has the capability of hitting the U.S. homeland with a nuke. Since the end of WW II and the atomic arms race, Russia has used Mutual Assured Destruction [MAD] to deter any U.S. military effort against Russia. Flying B-1B bombers close to North Korean airspace tells Pyongyang that the U.S. has extensive strategic assets in the Pacific Rim between Japan and Guam. Lavrov exaggerated Kim’s current nuke and ballistic missile capability.
Voting in new sanctions against North Korea Sept. 5, the European Union, Russia and China hoped they’d be enough to tamp down Trump’s rhetoric. Watering down sanctions had the opposite effect, leaving the U.S. no option other than a first strike on Pyongyang. Unlike terrorist groups fighting the U.S. in the Mideast, North Korea can’t hide its military assets from the U.S. Kim’s air force, navy, land army, artillery pieces, fixed rocket launchers are in the Pentagon’s cross hairs. Based all over the Pacific Rim, U.S. military assets are within minutes of Pyongyang. “This mission is a demonstration of U.S. resolve and a clear message that the President has many military options to defeat any threat,” said Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White. “We are prepared to use a full range of military capabilities to defend the U.S. homeland and our allies,” telling Kim the clock is ticking.
Detonated an hydrogen [thermonuclear] bomb capable of fitting into an ICBM or Intermediate-Range ballistic missile Sept. 3, Trump got the message that appeasement strategies of past American presidents won’t work today. Lavrov thinks the U.S. is bluffing but doesn’t understand what it means to be threatened with nuclear annihilation. Meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday, Ri showed no signs to de-escalating the rhetoric. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, called by Hillary Rodham Clinton the leader of the Free World in a dig toward Trump, offered to media the dispute between the U.S. and North Korea. Unlike Germany, that wreaked havoc on Europe with two world wars in the 20th century, Trump understands that appeasement won’t work to disarm Kim Jong-un’s nuke and ballistic missile arsenal. Kim understands only brute force when it comes to taking Trump seriously.
Threatening to detonate an atmospheric hydrogen bomb in the Pacific, Ri warned Trump that his boss would avenge the insults to North Korea’s 34-year-old leader. Trump called Kim a madman in a Tweet today, branding him as “Rocket Man” in his Sept. 19 U.N. speech. Trump’s National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Sept. 17 “there’s no road left to kick the can,” referring to former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama who let North Korea develop nukes and ballistic missiles over the last 25 years. Forced to draw a red line, Trump told Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to his face Aug. 1 he will “bomb” North Korea if they don’t stop their nuke and ballistic missile program. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sept. 5 Kim would rather “eat grass” than give up his weapons of mass destruction. Faced with that prospect, Trump’s busy preparing for the next step.
