'highly unusual' North Korean submarine activity

Washington (CNN)The US military has detected "highly unusual and unprecedented levels" of North Korean submarine activity and evidence of an "ejection test" in the days following Pyongyang's second intercontinental ballistic missile launch this month, a defense official told CNN on Monday.

An ejection test examines a missile's "cold-launch system," which uses high pressure steam to propel a missile out of the launch canister into the air before its engines ignite. That helps prevent flames and heat from the engine from damaging either the submarine, submersible barge or any nearby equipment used to launch the missile.
Carried out on land at Sinpo Naval Shipyard, Sunday's ejection test is the third time this month -- and fourth this year -- that North Korea has conducted a trial of the missile component that is critical to developing submarine launch capabilities, according to the US defense official.

US officials also noted that a North Korean Sang-O submarine was operating in the Yellow Sea and the length of its deployment was notable. Two Romeo submarines were detected in the waters off Japan -- each one operating in the area for about a week.
Coupled with reports of increased submarine activity, news of another ejection test comes amid concerns over North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears to have the range to hit major US cities on Friday.
Experts believe if Friday's test had been fired on a flatter, standard trajectory, it could have threatened cities like Los Angeles, Denver and Chicago.

President Donald Trump told reporters at his second full Cabinet meeting that his administration will be able to take care of North Korea but offered no specifics about what he plans to do.
"We will handle North Korea. We are gonna be able to handle them. It will be handled. We handle everything," Trump said after a reporter asked him about his strategy.
Asked if the US would strike first, Trump's press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that "all options are on the table," adding that Trump would not "broadcast" his decisions.

Democrat Sen. Mark Warner said on "Erin Burnett Out Front" Monday that Trump showed "enormous naiveté" by suggesting the nuclear threat from North Korea could be handled so simply.

North Korea's submarine fleet is believed to encompass about 70 subs, though the majority are quite old and likely cannot fire missiles.
When taken together, these developments are concerning because North Korea says it is trying to develop a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the United States.

Pyongyang has long maintained the ability to legitimately threaten the United States with a nuclear attack is the only way to protect itself against any US-led attempts at regime change.
Land-based and submarine-based missiles are considered two-thirds of what is known as the "Strategic Triad," a theory that a state must have land, air and sea-based nuclear attack capabilities to successfully deter an enemy from trying to attack it.

The current US intelligence assessment is that the missile program aboard submarines remains in the very early stages.
CNN reported earlier this month that North Korea had sent a diesel-powered Romeo Class sub on an unprecedented patrol and had been outfitting its Gorae Sub with a possible missile launch demonstration tube.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/politi...rine-activity/

I wonder if he get him first or do his people finally figure out the propaganda and overthrow him

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I wonder if he get him first or do his people finally figure out the propaganda and overthrow him

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He did a Ramsey Bolton to his uncle.

Doubt there are going to be many takers.

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Or, do (we) effect a regime change like we were urging last week?

See, it's okay for us to effect a regime change, but, if anybody tries such on us we take actual umbrage. Just take an awful fit over it.

Here is what we should do:::leave these people alone. Concentrate on this country, on our people.

We will never strike first, so, it doesn't matter what we do until they strike first.

Senator Graham Just Revealed His Terrifying Talk With Trump About “War” With North Korea

On the subject of North Korea, host Matt Lauer told Graham that “every military expert says there is no good military option,” but the Senator disagreed.

“They’re wrong,” Graham said.

“There is a good military option, to destroy North Korea’s program and North Korea itself.”
Graham acknowledged that “Japan, South Korea, and China would all be in the cross-hairs of a war if we started one with North Korea” and that “thousand [would] die.”

Nevertheless, he sees this as the “good military option” and so does the president.

“He’s told me that to my face,” Graham said, a claim later confirmed by Vox, which contacted both Graham and Trump’s press offices.

“Donald Trump is not going to allow this missile threat…”

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08...r-north-korea/

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Senator Graham Just Revealed His Terrifying Talk With Trump About “War” With North Korea

On the subject of North Korea, host Matt Lauer told Graham that “every military expert says there is no good military option,” but the Senator disagreed.

“They’re wrong,” Graham said.

“There is a good military option, to destroy North Korea’s program and North Korea itself.”
Graham acknowledged that “Japan, South Korea, and China would all be in the cross-hairs of a war if we started one with North Korea” and that “thousand [would] die.”

Nevertheless, he sees this as the “good military option” and so does the president.

“He’s told me that to my face,” Graham said, a claim later confirmed by Vox, which contacted both Graham and Trump’s press offices.

“Donald Trump is not going to allow this missile threat…”

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08...r-north-korea/

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Jesus, just give them some food and fuel oil.

Trump is by far the weakest president we've ever had.

This is what his people are syaing now.

Next thing we'll hear is how Assad is now our ally and we must work together. :lol

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It's actually a good thing for Rexxon to say.

That's why I think he's next in the dead pool.

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Trump is by far the weakest president we've ever had.

This is what his people are syaing now.

Next thing we'll hear is how Assad is now our ally and we must work together. :lol

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Now you want sabre rattling, now. Barry is out, 8 years of meh.. but now, now you want sabre rattling.

Meanwhile President Pussy-grabber is getting ready to handle something else other than female genitalia:

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"We'll handle North Korea. We're going to be able to handle them. It will be handled. We handle everything,"

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Don't we all feel so much safer? He is going to handle it.

:rollin :cry

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FUCK WHAT AN IDIOT. :bang

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Now you want sabre rattling, now. Barry is out, 8 years of meh.. but now, now you want sabre rattling.

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They're all hawks now.

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They're all hawks now.

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lol no

wonder why the media seems to omit certain details such as: there are 83 US bases in South Korean and US warships patrolling the coast; US-South Korean military exercises have included dropping mock nuclear bombs on North Korea; the US military plans to permanently station an armed drone on the Korean Peninsula and it has been practicing long-range strikes with strategic bombers, sending them to the region for exercises and deploying them in Guam and on the peninsula; and the U.S holds a “pre-emptive first strike” policy towards North Korea. is the narrative best suited to create the idea of NK as a rogue nation hell bent on nuking the U.S. for no apparent reason? the media even diminishes China's role in what is going on.

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Fuck that. Give them mega tons of thermonuclear awakening.

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Here's your war leader. Acting all... leader-y

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Sensing a theme here.

Looks like he wants to president less and play vroom vroom.

http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcsi.d...-170719739.jpg

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Fuck that. Give them mega tons of thermonuclear awakening.

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Problem with nuclear weapons is that you end up irradiating allies. And China.

Do you want to irradiate 1/6 of the human population, and turn the rest of the world against us?

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Problem with nuclear weapons is that you end up irradiating allies. And China.

Do you want to irradiate 1/6 of the human population, and turn the rest of the world against us?

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25,000,000 people in Seoul alone. that region actually contains half of the world's total population (when you add up china, russia and japan), not to mention the busiest commercial ports and biggest economies.

North Korea won't give up nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles for negotiations

North Korea also threatened

to "make the U.S. pay dearly for all the heinous crime [SIC] it commits against the state and people of this country."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-korea-wont-give-up-nuclear-weapons-ballistic-missiles-for-negotiations/

how's Trash's vacation golf game going?

Historically, LOTS of really bad geopolitical shit has occurred in August.

:lmao neocon liberal warmongers

Go ahead and enlist yourself and your children then and get on the first flight to Korea

Good riddance

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25,000,000 people in Seoul alone. that region actually contains half of the world's total population (when you add up china, russia and japan), not to mention the busiest commercial ports and biggest economies.

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Thats why starting a regime change by force is beyond lunacy. Only a bloodthirsty demon would support any kinds of armed intervention in such a heavily populated area.

But not surprised at all Obamalover neocons want war there tbqh

Trump Just Stunned The World With An Outrageous Twitter Lie

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images...00m_normal.jpgDonald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump

The Fake News Media will not talk about the importance of the United Nations Security Council's 15-0 vote in favor of sanctions on N. Korea!

3:15 PM - Aug 7, 2017

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the media has widely covered the new round of sanctions – and the hostile reaction from North Korea.

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08...s-twitter-lie/

As Louis C. K. says on Colbert show, Trash is a "lying sack of shit"

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:lmao neocon liberal warmongers

Go ahead and enlist yourself and your children then and get on the first flight to Korea

Good riddance

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Thats why starting a regime change by force is beyond lunacy. Only a bloodthirsty demon would support any kinds of armed intervention in such a heavily populated area.

But not surprised at all Obamalover neocons want war there tbqh

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Which ones are actively calling for war?

Found chumpdumper

Hi chump

Which sewer pipe did you come back on? :lol

Nk doesnt really need a high tech delivery system. They could put a nuke in a 40' container bound for the port of LA and blow it when they dock. Would trash the US economy for years.

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Which sewer pipe did you come back on? :lol

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Who is actively calling for war with North Korea?

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Who is actively calling for war with North Korea?

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Lol ding! ding!

probably a RC boat race, tbh

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Nk doesnt really need a high tech delivery system. They could put a nuke in a 40' container bound for the port of LA and blow it when they dock. Would trash the US economy for years.

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Lol for years

Any nuke is detonated on US/Russian or Chinese soil no matter the delivery method, it would mean the end of all life in the planet.

The attacked country would retaliate by emptying all their nuke silos and the other 2 would follow suit.

Thats why US escalating the conflict next to Russia/China borders is fucking lunatic and insane.

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At least try to use it right.

Why would North Korea want to nuke LA?

Found chumpdumper

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At least try to use it right.

Why would North Korea want to nuke LA?

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Pavlov, right? I was referring to your stupid socratic questions that generate an automatic response. Pavlov. Ding ding. Get it now? Conditioned response.

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Not rhetorical. I'm asking you directly.

And your conditioned response would be drooling. I don't know what sound you make when you do that.

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Not rhetorical. I'm asking you directly.

And your conditioned response would be drooling. I don't know what sound you make when you do that.

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Be specific

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Details, details.

There is a reason a seasoned President Obama did a "pivot". Asia is the future, with Africa running close behind.

President Vroom Vroom seems more worried about photo-ops, rallies, golfing, inauguration size, etc. than actually doing anything.

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Details, details.

There is a reason a seasoned President Obama did a "pivot". Asia is the future, with Africa running close behind.

President Vroom Vroom seems more worried about photo-ops, rallies, golfing, inauguration size, etc. than actually doing anything.

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My point was that the N. Korea narrative, as relegated by the MSM, is incomplete. It is not as if the N.Korean antipathy towards the U.S. is without merit. We carpet bombed the hell out of the north during the Korean war (in a period of three years, we killed off roughly 20 % of their population). Since the ceasefire, the U.S. and S. Korea have staged nearly 20,000 north-targeted war drills. As to Obama's "Asian pivot", moving 60% of the U.S. Navy to Asia, the whole Jeju island fiasco and naval exercises with Japan, I think it really represents the understated economic and military aggression which took place under Obama. But that falls in line with Obama who often sought to rationalize (see his Nobel Peace Prize speech and its ramblings on theodicy) the notion of peace through strength, which has been the impetus of U.S. foreign policy for decades. I'm afraid that Obama's contribution to Africa, also fueled by U.S. interests in the region, have also just contributed to a very old tradition of Western-fueled civil wars. So in this respect, Obama was definitely seasoned and deliberate. I can't say who is running the WH at this time so no way to know what will transpire under Trump. Almost certainly, it will involve Twitter.

Donald Trump Threatens North Korea With ‘Fire And Fury’

“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States.”

promising “fire and fury like the world has never seen,”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-north-korea-threat_us_598a12afe4b0d793738ad5ee?utm_medium=emai l&utm_campaign=__BREAKING__%20Donald%20Trump%20Thr eatens%20North%20Korea%20With%20Fire%20And%20Fury& utm_content=__BREAKING__%20Donald%20Trump%20Threat ens%20North%20Korea%20With%20Fire%20And%20Fury+CID _65aac5164b75440fbc0ab862a16b7461&utm_source=Email %20marketing%20software&utm_term=Read%20More&ncid= newsltushpmgnews__BREAKING__%20Donald%20Trump%20Th reatens%20North%20Korea%20With%20Fire%20And%20Fury

y'all's motherfucking PVL so-called Pres is motherfucking insane.

Trump shares report on N. Korea missiles based on anonymous intel sources

President Trump early Tuesday shared a report on North Korean cruise missiles based on information from anonymous sources amid his administration's crackdown on leaks.

The president in a tweet shared an article from "Fox & Friends" that says U.S. spy agencies "detected the rogue communist regime loading two anti-ship cruise missiles on a patrol boat on the country’s east coast just days ago."


The report cites anonymous sources in the intelligence community, a practice that Trump often criticizes. :lol

Attorney General Jeff Sessions also announced last week that the Department of Justice is considering stricter measures to prevent leaks.

United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said on Tuesday that the report contains “classified information.”

“I can’t talk about anything that’s classified,” she said on Fox News. “And if that’s in the newspaper that’s a shame. I have no reason to comment on it.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...tough-decisive

North Korea Just Responded To Trump’s Threats With A Terrifying Threat Of Their Own

Reuters is reporting that North Korean state media has announced that

if the United States continued to threaten the North Korean regime,

then the nation would be forced to respond with a missile strike on the U.S. territory of Guam,

which holds a U.S. airbase and over a hundred thousand American citizens.

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08...ifying-threat/

iow, NK is calling Trash's bluff and bluster.

How will Trash respond? Will Gen Kelly get Trash in a NYPD-Eric-Garner choke hold?

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images...pyl_normal.jpgWilliam J. Perry
✔@SecDef19


Nuclear deterrence is only effective if threats are deemed credible,

bluster hurts our national security posture

4:50 PM - Aug 8, 2017

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Trump Just Tweeted For The First Time Since North Korea Threatened America


a full seven hours after his last tweet on the North Korea crisis, he broke his silence.

What reassurance and confidence-instilling prose did he conjure up for a weary nation?

Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump

Senator Luther Strange has done a great job representing the people of the Great State of Alabama. He has my complete and total endorsement!
8:16 PM - Aug 8, 2017

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08...tened-america/

Having scared the shit out of everybody Tuesday, Trash hunkers down with his war room team

... on the golf course