Up to 20 missile bases in North Korea discovered.

@Budwick Here's a fairly objective take on the situation from Cato (a right-wing group). Cheers.

https://www.cato.org/blog/revenge-expectations-trumps-rhetoric-kims-missile-bases

@Xuan12 Did you forget a link? Cato is conservative, but generally solid - which often makes them inconvenient to the current crop of folks trying to redefine what being a conservative means. I got one am curious to hear what they say.

@QuixoticSoul Aye, looks like it sat on the clip board for a while. XD That's how much effort I'm putting in here.

@Graylight Behind closed doors? Check out his twitter feed this morning. He's back to his witch hunt rant, and how conflicted Bob Mueller is, how he worked 8 years for President Obama.

[quote]I know I would be a great fit for this position because of the combination of my qualifications and passion to learn and adopt new technologies.[/quote]

Wait, what? I guess Trump is mixing things up. Mueller worked 8 years for George W. Bush, and 4.5 years for President Obama. But what's another lie?

@windinhishair Do they give a Nobel Prize for "Resting Bitch Face?"

@firefall https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/north-korea-still-building-ballistic-missiles-say-u-s-officials-1368698435834?v=raila&


Also, I just looked into it. It is now believed the North Korea has rockets capable of reaching a range of 10,000km without a payload. Adding a payload would of course reduce that range, but with the US mainland being at 10,300km, it is possible that North Korean engineers are just one breakthrough or technical upgrade away from attaining a theoretical maximum range that includes the continental US.

@firefall I seem to remember that their later tests demonstrated the energy necessary. They just have to build more of those.

But seriously, they aren’t a credible threat to us and never will be.

@QuixoticSoul Depends on the scale of threat. An existential threat? No. But they would have the power to be quite destructive to our assets and interests in the Pacific. Additionally, the real question is whether or not they might be able to drag China with them. That would be a much more destructive scenario.

@QuixoticSoul I know 🤢🤢🤮

@gregloa Get rid of your television, it's rotting your brain.

@gregloa No news boutique--- right, left, middle--- has reported Trump totally topping Kim Jong Un and making him give up his missiles.

The only source of that are inhabitants of a strange land called MAGA-landia.

So I'm not sure what this FAKE NEWS is...

@LittleBlueAngelBoy Eh... maybe. ICBM interception is far from a sure thing, and some would probably get through.

Our real protection lies in the absolute certainty that an attack would be the last action North Korean leadership will ever perform.