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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Pretext?

The North Koreans claim America declared war on them. Will North Korea strike?

This is disturbing:

"The whole world should clearly remember it was the U.S. who first declared war on our country," [North Korean] Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told reporters in New York.

Obviously America did not declare war on them.

But North Korea could decide to strike first--even if it is almost assuredly futile--and may rest their decision on this interpretation.

After all, Trump pushed North Korea's attack plans from marginally inevitable to a higher level:

North Korea’s foreign minister told world leaders Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s insult calling leader Kim Jong Un “rocket man” makes “our rocket’s visit to the entire U.S. mainland inevitable all the more.”

"Inevitable all the more?" I don't think that word "inevitable" means what he thinks it means.

Which is why I was glad we escorted the B-1 bomber run up the east coast of North Korea recently with F-15c fighters.