Likelihood of War with North Korea is Dramatically Increased

The likelihood of full scale war with North Korea had dramatically increased in the past day or so.  North Korea has perfected the ability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead in order to put it aboard an ICBM.  This is an ability we were saying they wouldn’t be able to do for another several years and now they’ve done it.  They have the potential for distance on their missiles to at least be able to reach the west coast of the United States and perhaps further.  Now North Korea has made an overt threat against the isle of Guam.  It’s something they are seriously thinking of doing.  In response to all of this yesterday President Trump made a statement where he said that “North Korea is going to find that they will be met with fire and fury and great power such as the world has never seen”.  Was Trump implying that our first move against North Korea might be nuclear war?  North Korea itself has been making abundant threats against the United States in the past few days.  We’ll just have to wait in see if in the next few days things either get worse or hopefully the rhetoric will cool off and we can both draw a breath and take a more rational look at the problem.  But it would seem that it’s the closest the world has come to Nuclear War in the past fifty five years.  Perhaps this time we could do it right for once and actually get congress to declare war.  We went to war with Iraq because they had “Weapons of mass destruction”.  Well I’d consider a nuclear warhead in the hands of an insane leader a weapon of mass destruction.  Now people are saying “Well they have the distance but do they have the accuracy?”  Or they are saying, “Will their missiles withstand the heat of reentry to the earth’s atmosphere?”  But clearly we are running out of time and no longer have the time for a watch and wait view of the situation.  Clearly Kim Jan Um is an unstable personality and we can’t assume that he’ll always do what’s rational.  War with Korea is a clear and present reality. 

We had sloppy Joes for dinner and French fries and there were seconds on those according to Bill.  I should have gotten seconds but didn’t.  We had applesauce for dessert.  I was reading rock compilations from earlier this year.  I goofed and put “February 29^th” instead of March 29^th as a re-release date of “Relics from a Different Age”.  I am a relic from a different age.  I may do a blogger retrospective on the year 1998.  I do have “Holliday in Cambodia” listed in “For the Record” from May 2006.  I wasn’t sure I had included it.  “I’m Leaving You” is that Scorpions song on “Relics from a Different Age” and I had You Tub on for this.  “The Final Brick in the Wall” is not as good of an album as “Coda” but it occurs April 9^th.   “Coda” was out in late March of this year.  Bill gave me the pack of cigarettes he owed me.  Bill turned on the TV news.  Trump is threatening North Korea using the rhetoric of the other side.  Phrases such as "fire and fury" are phrases that world dictators use to fire up the enthusiastic crowds.