Tag Archive 'North Korea'

Political theater *REVAMPED*

One of the hallmarks of a modern totalitarian government is stagecraft.  Leni Riefenstahl made a whole movie dedicated to glorifying a totalitarian government’s meticulously staged extravaganza.  As a child in the 1960s and 1970s, I vividly remember footage of marches in the Soviet Union, with soldiers in perfect goosestep order.  China and North Korea are [...]

N. Korea tests Obama — and the world *UPDATED*

Clearly, predator nations smell blood in the water — and that blood is Obama’s manifest inability to cope with predator nations.  At least, that’s how I read this, from BNO News at 9:30 ish p.m. PST:
N. Korea says it is no longer bound to the armistice which ended the war and says the peninsula will [...]

I hope he handles this one well

I few hours ago, I read the Twitters on “peculiar earthquakes” in the Korean Peninsula.  Now I know why they were peculiar:  the North Koreans are testing nukes.  Oh, joy.  I hope the White House’s “grave[] concern” translates into intelligent action.

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North Korea launches rocket

Didn’t Biden say Obama would be tested within months of taking office?
The State Department says that North Korea has launched a rocket, following through on its promise of a launch despite international criticism.
State Department spokesman Fred Lash confirmed the launch, saying it occurred at 10:30 p.m. EDT Saturday.
“We look on this as a provocative act,” [...]

Not like us

Abe Greenwald looks at the vast differences between the values of America’s enemies and semi-enemies (such as Iran, North Korea, and Russia), as well as Obama’s naive and dangerous inability to understand that the leaders and fanatics in those nations are not like us.

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