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would qualify the White House’s words and actions as “extremely
serious”.
I was scolded on Facebook by someone saying this is all a distraction from local NZ politics. You can't win!
White
House Press Briefing confirms, Trump’s “calm before the storm”
statement “extremely serious”
Iran
or North Korea?
7
October, 2017
Yesterday
The Duran reported that
during a dinner with military leaders, President Trump gave an
ominous warning…
“You guys know what this represents? Maybe it’s the calm before the storm,” he said: “It could be the calm… before… the storm.”
A
reporter quickly asked what the storm might be -“Is it Iran, ISIS,
what’s the storm?” to which Trump replied, “…you’ll find
out.”
According
to Zerohedge,
during a White House Press Briefing that followed Trump’s
warning, Sarah Sanders replied to questions suggesting
the President’s comments were “extremely serious,” however
without offering an explanation.
When asked if Trump was referring to military action when he said “calm before the storm.” Sarah Sanders replied “We’re never going to say in advance what the president’s going to do. You’ll have to wait and see.”
Then, in a follow up question “how seriously should America’s public or America’s adversaries take these comments”, the White House press secretary said “I think you can take the president protecting the American people always extremely seriously. He’s been very clear that that’s his number one priority.”
Trump
Hints At War With
North Korea: "Sorry, But
Only One Thing Will
Work"
7
October, 2017
When we
commented on this morning's Trump
tweetstorm, in which he covered everything from the fake (and not so
fake) media, to RNC donors, to reaching out to Democrats on Obamacare
repeal, to "late night" comedians and their "one-sided
coverage" of Trump, we said that Trump has yet to make a comment
on the most cryptic topic of the last week, his repeated
suggestions that the current situation is a
"calm before the storm."
Moments
ago, he may have done just that, when in his latest pair of tweets,
Trump ominously suggested that following 25 years of failed diplomacy
with North Korea, there is "only
one thing that will work."
"Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid hasn't worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of U.S. negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work!"
Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid......
...hasn't worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of U.S. negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work!
The
tweets prompted profoundly existential questions such as this one:
Is trump threatening North Korea from the golf course?
While
Trump did not specify what that "one thing" is (at least
not yet), it stands to reason that the president is referring to some
sort of military intervention, i.e. war, which of course would most
likely prompt a retaliation by North Korea, one which according to
the 38
Northwebsite
could result in over 2 million fatalities and nearly 8 million
injuries.
Reports
that North Korea is planning to test an ICBM capable of reaching the
US west coast opened
a trapdoor under stocks this
morning, suggesting that investors are taking president’s ominous
warnings about “the calm before the storm” seriously.
But
in the unlikely event that you’re not sufficiently terrified
already, researchers at Johns Hopkins have sought to quantify the
horrifying consequences of a North Korean nuclear strike in a new
research report published
by the university’s 38th Parallel project.
The US carrying out any military option raises a significant risk of military escalation by the North, including the use of nuclear weapons against South Korea and Japan. According to the calculations presented below, if the “unthinkable” happened, nuclear detonations over Seoul and Tokyo with North Korea’s current estimated weapon yields could result in as many as 2.1 million fatalities and 7.7 million injuries.
In
the report,
author Michael Zagurek calculates that an all-out nuclear strike
launched by North Korea against Tokyo or Seoul could kill as many as
2.1 million people and injure another 8 million. Combined,
the number of dead and injured would equal 10% of the South Korean
population – affirming that a nuclear strike by the North would be
– by a considerable margin - the single deadliest attack in human
history. By comparison, the US killed a combined 120,000 Japanese
civilians when dropped nuclear bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
To
hear Zagurek tell it, investors and ordinary citizens alike are
underestimating the likelihood of a nuclear conflict. As Zagurek
explains, tipping the world into a potentially civilization conflict
could result from an accidental miscalculation by either side. In
the most likely scenario, an accidental miscalculation during a
missile or nuclear test in the Pacific impacts US military assets in
Guam, triggering an overwhelming military response by the US.
With
the North Korean regime fearing the imminent destruction of its
nuclear arsenal, as the logic goes, the Kim regime would fire off all
25 of its nukes – at least, that was the number upon which Zagurek
based his calculations – at either Japan or Seoul.
But
ruling out the possibility of an accident like that described above,
how much longer can North Korea and the US trade threats before a
military conflict becomes inevitable?
If the status quo is unacceptable and diplomacy has been ineffective, then at what point do military responses become probable? The tension between North Korea, its neighbors and the United States are now extremely high, antagonized further by bombastic exchanges between the US and DPRK during the United Nations General Assembly meetings and continued tweets from Trump. History is replete with “rational actors” grossly miscalculating, especially in crisis situations. It is possible that another North Korean nuclear test—especially if detonated in air or under water—an ICBM test, or a missile test that has the payload impact area too close to US bases in Guam for example, might see Washington react with force. This could include such options as attempting to shoot down the test missiles or possibly attacking North Korea’s missile testing, nuclear related sites, missile deployment areas or the Kim Regime itself. The North Korean leadership might perceive such an attack as an effort to remove the Kim family from power and, as a result, could retaliate with nuclear weapons as a last gasp reaction before annihilation. Therefore, it is worth reviewing the consequences if the “unthinkable” happened.
The
following graphs show the results of Zagurek's calculations for
different-sized nuclear payloads:
Here’s
a map of Seoul showing four possible blast areas from a 250 kt
airbust detonation – 12+ psi, 5-12 psi, 2-5 psi, 1-2 psi…
And
the four possible blast areas for Tokyo…
With
Sarah Huckabee Sanders telling reporters that President Donald
Trump’s ominous hints about a coming “storm” should be taken
seriously, it’s possible that a breaking point could be
approaching…
…then
again, Trump is fond of bluffing. Meanwhile, Steve
Bannon’s surprising admission that there is “no attractive
military solutions” for dealing with North Korea that wouldn't
result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in Seoul
within 30 minutes due
to conventional weapons fire continue to haunt the administration...
N. Korea slams ‘US gangster-like moves’ for domination, blames ‘war-thirsty Trump’
NorthKorea latest: US secret plot to ASSASSINATE Kim Jong-un in May FAILED
NORTH Korea claims it foiled an assassination plot on Kim Jong-Un’s life from the United States amid heightened World War 3.
The
report read: “In May this year, a group of heinous terrorists who
infiltrated into our country on the orders of the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the US and the South Korean puppet
Intelligence Service with the purpose of carrying out a
state-sponsored terrorism against our supreme headquarters using
biological and chemical substance were caught and exposed.
“This
palpably shows the true nature of the US as the main culprit behind
terrorism.”
NORTH
Korea could instantly kill four million people in just minutes if
tyrant Kim Jong-un decides to launch a nuclear strike on Japan and
South Korea.
END
TIME SIGNS: "CALM BEFORE THE STORM"?! LATEST & CURRENT
EVENTS (October 6, 2017)
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