The events in Charolettesville yesterday knocked North Korea out of the news-cycle for at least one day. But today they are back in the news, claiming they are on “stand by” to launch a missile attack on Guam, the US or wherever. Personally, I don’t think there is any way in hell that North Korea could launch missile that could actually hit this country. They could hit Guam though, a U.S. territory.
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North Korea took its turn Saturday in the country’s escalating, back-and-fourth with President Trump, with the state-run newspaper saying leader Kim Jung Un’s revolutionary army is “capable of fighting any war the U.S. wants.”
The assertion was made in an editorial that also states the Paektusan army is now “on the standby to launch fire into its mainland, waiting for an order of final attack.”
The editorial also argues that the United States “finds itself in an ever worsening dilemma, being thrown into the grip of extreme security unrest by the DPRK. This is tragicomedy of its own making. … If the Trump administration does not want the American empire to meet its tragic doom in its tenure, they had better talk and act properly.”
DPRK stands for North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The editorial appears to be in response to a series of comments made by Trump in recent days, most recently Friday that the United States is “locked and loaded.”