U.S. and SoKo scaring NoKo in the Coco

Photo: Ahn Young-joon/AP

Kim is shaking so much the palace is vibrating as he downs a rack of ribs, lobster, steak fries, veggies, and a huge piece of cheesecake for dessert. He washes it down with a Diet Coke to trick his NoKo brain.

Twenty-four U.S. stealth jets along with hundreds of other aircraft played their reindeer wargames in South Korea on Monday, showing Kim that as big as it is, we can kick his butt, no sweat.

Vigilant Ace, the annual military games, come during heightened tensions in the region since Kim Jong Un's nuclear and ICBM tests. He's like a punk kid in the schoolyard taunting the other kid named Donald and getting taunted back, bigly.

Two hundred and thirty aircraft will fly from eight airstrips in South Korea, according to an Air Force statement.

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps (pronounced 'core', Mr. Obama) were also participating in "a realistic air combat exercise" designed to improve the technical cooperation between the U.S. and South Korean militaries. About 12,000 U.S. troops are taking part in the wargames. 

North Korea called the exercise a "grave provocation" and said on Monday that they could escalate the situation "to the brink of nuclear war."

Yes, but it would be North Korea who would get nuked.

Pyongyang said Vigilant Ace was being performed at a time "when insane President Trump is running wild" and it condemned South Korea as "puppet war maniacs."

Of course if we did nothing to show North Korea our strength, they would continue doing what they've been doing ever since Bill Clinton was boffing aides in the Oval Office--continue developing a nuclear weapon and delivery system.

So Kim can call Trump insane, but he isn't suicidal, and that's not a far cry from how North Korea had been mishandled in the past.

The Air Force has assured the public that these exercises with South Korea were "not in response to any incident or provocation" and explained that our two countries engage in war games every year.

Coincidentally, however, this latest round comes less than a week after North Korea's latest missile launch of what was probably an ICBM with the capability of reaching most anywhere on our mainland. 

But for any long-range nuclear weapon to be effective, it would require a durable re-entry vehicle with a lightweight warhead and accurate guidance systems, which thus far have not been shown to exist in NoKo's arsenal. 

In other words, a trained suicidal monkey with a Google map of the target and a Gyeonggi-do walkie talkie isn't going to get it done. 

Pyongyang still has some work to do with their weaponry and we need to keep them from doing it. Experts are not certain about how close the North is in achieving its goal and many think Kim wants a nuke to deter the U.S. from trying to topple his regime.

Let's hope Kim and Trump can work and play well together, or at least settle things diplomatically.


Tweet