North Korea 'conducts missile test'

[inanna]

Source: BBC

3 minutes ago

North Korea has fired an unidentified type of projectile, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports.

The missile was launched at 07:55 local time (22:55 GMT Saturday) and flew east towards the Sea of Japan, South Korean defence officials say. Initial reports had described it as ballistic missile.

Pyongyang has conducted a number of nuclear tests in the past year.

North Korea's repeated missile and nuclear tests and aggressive statements continue to alarm and anger the region.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38947451

[mobeau69]

1. Abe and drumpf golfing in FL

Sure that figured in the plan. They're testing the bully. That's what's concerning. He'll likely overreact.

[DesertRat]

2. Meanwhile, 45 tweets this message to the nation

Link to tweet

[mobeau69]

4. OMG. He really doesn't know anything about punctuation!

[DesertRat]

5. Or foreign policy. nt

[cstanleytech]

6. Or....well anything that a leader of a major nation needs to know. nt

[uppityperson]

3. I'm sure PresBannon will be right on the case

[mobeau69]

7. Identified as Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile n/t

[cstanleytech]

8. Woohooo Lil kim got his missile up, dang thats some potent Viagra he got ahold of.

[politicat]

13. Yes, but did it maintain trajectory? Prematurely detonate?

My bet is off target and premature, to take the analogy to its unhappy ending.

More seriously, I am slightly worried about this, because Lil Kim has become accustomed to being the craziest authoritarian on the world stage, and has now been upstaged. Attention is a drug, and he's been forcibly shoved into withdrawal. That's what pushes the more dangerous end of Cluster B into extreme acting out, like family annihilation and spree killing. And if Lil Kim decides he's going to go out as the biggest asshole ever, it's really not that hard -- launch whatever shit they have at SK (doesn't matter what, doesn't matter if it hits target, conventional is fine) and march everyone in internment across the DMZ to take care of those pesky land mines. Not that such an invasion would work as a means of NK taking over SK, but it would cause chaos, would make China/Russia/US tensions far worse and more complicated, and it would be final proof that he's loved, worshipped, obeyed, and feared.

[TygrBright]

9. At least they waited until Abe was with [Redacted] to walk him through the crisis response...

Ya gotta kinda wonder if that wasn't part of the plan.

Like the undersized bratty kid waiting until teacher comes out to the playground before taunting the bully.

speculatively,
Bright

[Rustyeye77]

10. Great

What could possibly go wrong,

[True Dough]

11. Good thing Drumpf has formed such a solid relationship with China

since he's relying on China to take care of the North Korea problem. Good luck with that!

[django363]

12. Trump's statement

Did anyone see the statement by the President and the PM of Japan? It was odd. The PM said a bunch of things and then Trump said the US agrees and backs them up 100% and it was over. About 1 minute.