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Akakoji

(507 posts)
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 02:57 AM 12 hrs ago

North Korea launches ballistic missiles into sea between Korean Peninsula and Japan

Source: Associated Press

The launches were the first time North Korea fired weapons since testing what it called hypersonic missiles in early January. In December, the country test-fired what it called long-range, strategic cruise missiles and new anti-air missiles and released photos showing apparent progress in the construction of its first nuclear-powered submarine.

North Korea has engaged in a run of weapons launches to enlarge its nuclear and missile arsenals since talks with the U.S. and South Korea stalled in 2019. Experts say the North’s leader Kim Jong Un believes a bigger weapons arsenal would give him greater leverage to win concessions from the U.S.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/north-south-korea-projectile-launched-9bb07a5ffb0782a27d0dbdf7b6871978



The Japanese have seriously downplayed this event so as not to stoke hysteria. They should be doing just that, however.

There has been an underground, now very public nuclear arms race going on between North Korea and Japan for years, although it didn't go public until recently. Ironically - or intentionally due to the stupidity of the use of resources in Iran - this has been happening: "
The redirected weapons include Patriot missiles and interceptors from the THAAD system in South Korea — the only Asian ally hosting the advanced missile defense system, deployed by the Pentagon to counter North Korea’s growing missile threat. Now, for the first time, its interceptors are being moved away, followed by launchers if the diplomatic and logistical details can be worked out, according to American officials."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/world/asia/iran-war-china-asia.html

Like the coup that started long before rioters and terrorists attacked the capital under the charge of Trump, WWIII has already started under the guise of something that Trump and little Pete felt was necessary to project a masculine image. Destroying Iran's oil facilities is about the stupidest thing any government has ever done.
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North Korea launches ballistic missiles into sea between Korean Peninsula and Japan (Original Post) Akakoji 12 hrs ago OP
Yeah, this weekend's off to a great start. RandySF 11 hrs ago #1
Don't do that. Akakoji 8 hrs ago #2
The Japanese are downplaying this because they're used to this shit RazorbackExpat 5 hrs ago #3
Like clockwork angrycaveman 1 hr ago #4

RandySF

(83,548 posts)
1. Yeah, this weekend's off to a great start.
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 03:19 AM
11 hrs ago

I'll stick my head in the oven by Sunday night at this rate,

Akakoji

(507 posts)
2. Don't do that.
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 06:35 AM
8 hrs ago

Please? I think probably by next weekend the entire world will have collapsed. Come to think of it, the only thing that gave me any pleasure at all today was watching Pirro screetch like a rat caught in a glue trap. It was astounding. The things that she has said in the past - and no, she absolutely had not been a practicing g lawyer for 35 years - made me think she was talking about Trump and company.

She thinks no evidence exists?

It’s easy to dismiss Jeanine Pirro as a joke -- for the last few decades, that’s exactly what she’s been. A third-tier New York political figure turned fourth-tier media commentator, her eponymous Fox News program, Justice with Judge Jeanine, calls back to her two-year term as an elected county court judge a quarter-century ago. Pirro’s show is a poorly-produced mishmash, combining her opening monologue diatribes lionizing the president and hammering his enemies; interviews with conservative commentators and politicians who often have trouble following her rambling questions; and inanities like January’s “Street Justice” segment after the 2016 elections, in which she wandered the town of Chappaqua, NY, and the surrounding woods in search of Hillary Clinton. In her latest book, she accidentally calls herself an idiot.

But the ascension of President Donald Trump has scrambled the ranks of the relevant, as the motley collection of fools and crooks willing to support him rise in influence. And so Pirro has become a thought leader, riding a decades-long personal friendship with the president and a willingness to propagandize on his behalf to the top of the ratings charts and best-seller lists. Because her Fox audience of roughly two million viewers includes the president, she gets top-tier Republican guests, including White House officials who book themselves on the program in order to communicate directly with Trump. Off air, she advises the president in the Oval Office and at his Mar-a-Lago resort; he, in turn, has considered her for senior positions in his administration. In the age of Trump, the idiots reign.

Pirro, an intrinsically ridiculous person, now occupies a position of influence. The way commentators respond to her televised rants often depends on how they weigh those attributes. On Saturday night, for example, I tweeted a clip of Pirro describing the president’s political opposition as “Demon-rats”:

This needed to be preserved for posterity.

Jeanine Pirro just now on Fox: “The establishment Republicans have buckled, caved, and bowed to the Democrats. or should I say, Demon-rats. That's what I said, Demon-rats!” pic.twitter.com/EXArYFJfPS

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) September 30, 2018

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/demon-rats-dimms-and-why-fox-news-dehumanization-matters

RazorbackExpat

(932 posts)
3. The Japanese are downplaying this because they're used to this shit
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 10:09 AM
5 hrs ago

Over the years, North Korea has fired missiles over northern Japan, towards Okinawa, and several into the Sea of Japan

angrycaveman

(26 posts)
4. Like clockwork
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 01:43 PM
1 hr ago

...whenever we stumble around in the Middle east. Can't Kim Jung just post Simple Minds Don't You like every other neglected person?

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