Yesterday, the North Koreans released pictures showing their leader Kim Jung Un in their military headquarters reviewing plans for the upcoming war with South Korea and the USA. In the background of the photo was a chart that showed the places in the USA that the NK's were targeting. These included Washington, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. This morning, I have read three different articles making fun of the selection of Austin as a target. It is just so damn funny to the authors. I can't decide who are the bigger jerks: the NK's for releasing such a photo or the journalists for making light of a threatened nuclear attack.
Essentially every article about the threats from North Korea has added a paragraph in which the reporter tells his or her readers that the consensus among analysts is that the NK's do not have missiles capable of hitting the mainland USA. This is ridiculous. I am not saying that the NK's do have missiles. That is almost impossible. The point, however, is that one does not need a missile to deliver a nuclear weapon; a freighter or even a commercial airliner would do. For all we know, there already are North Korean nuclear weapons that were smuggled into the USA over the last few years. Surely, no one could rely on the border security or customs officials to have prevented this from happening. These are the same folks who have managed to keep out all but 12 million illegal aliens and who also have managed to do such a great job stopping the flow of drugs across the border.
I strongly doubt that the NK's are serious about launching an attack, but it certainly is not a laughing matter.
Essentially every article about the threats from North Korea has added a paragraph in which the reporter tells his or her readers that the consensus among analysts is that the NK's do not have missiles capable of hitting the mainland USA. This is ridiculous. I am not saying that the NK's do have missiles. That is almost impossible. The point, however, is that one does not need a missile to deliver a nuclear weapon; a freighter or even a commercial airliner would do. For all we know, there already are North Korean nuclear weapons that were smuggled into the USA over the last few years. Surely, no one could rely on the border security or customs officials to have prevented this from happening. These are the same folks who have managed to keep out all but 12 million illegal aliens and who also have managed to do such a great job stopping the flow of drugs across the border.
I strongly doubt that the NK's are serious about launching an attack, but it certainly is not a laughing matter.
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