Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Are Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump trolling each other?


Are Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump trolling each other? Let's hope so.

Politico
North Korea calls Trump's threat a 'load of nonsense'
AP

Trump's 'fire and fury' threat to North Korea sparks new fears of war
Bryan Bender and Jacqueline Klimas

Mad Dog jumps in.

Business Insider
MATTIS: North Korea should stop before it gets destroyed
Alex Lockie

Meanwhile the ROW (rest of the world) is, like, WTF?
President Donald Trump appears to have painted himself into a corner: He must now follow up on his pledge of hitting North Korea with "fire and fury," or he risks further blowing U.S. credibility.
Kim Jong-un's regime said late on Tuesday that it may strike Guam . That came shortly after Trump warned Pyongyang it would face "power, the likes of which this world has never seen before" if the renegade state continued to threaten the U.S.
"If the red line he drew today was 'North Korea cannot threaten the U.S. anymore,' that line was crossed within an hour of him making that statement," said John Delury, associate professor of Chinese studies at Seoul-based Yonsei University....
Yahoo Finance
Trump just set his own, uncrossable 'red line' — and North Korea crossed it instantly
Nyshka Chandran | CNBC

Where are the grownups?

1 comment:

Kaivey said...

To think some liberals voted for this burke because they thought be was the peace candidate. Now he's stirred up a whole bees next because of populist thinking. Still, he is probably being egged on by his right wing hawkish team. The crazy party got even crazier.