North Korea puts out some strange rhetoric, especially lately. This is probably my favorite. Coming from them, its more of an oxymoron than “compassionate conservative” or “military intelligence.” Yes, it may even top “Microsoft works.” While I’m not one to really laugh in the face of danger, I hear these blatant threats that I have come to expect to hear from North Korea with the knowledge in the back of my mind that at best they have just over half a dozen or so nuclear weapons.
Furthermore, it’s unlikely that they can fit them on the top of their plagued Taepodong-2 missile, which is the only weapon in their arsenal that has the Aleutian Islands or Hawaii within their range. You’ll remember that North Korea has not once successfully demonstrated this weapon, while capable of reaching that far, can reliably do so, but they have a test coming up around July 4 so I’ll try not to be too presumptuous.
I assume that when they say “fire shower of nuclear retaliation” they’re talking about what would happen to them if they launched even just one nuclear weapon towards a U.S. territory, or towards Japan or South Korea for that matter too. It’s hard to take seriously someone who wears platform shoes.
