North Korea Now Making Missile Ready Nuclear Weapons

[Anomalocaris]

This is the almost inevitable outcome of using an excuse to invade Iraq to topple saddam Hussain,  and letting kadafi be hunted down and killed like a dog after he renounced his nukes.

The issue at hand between 45 and Un are nukes, not ground wars. Bad excuses for ground wars are a different topic. Our species can survive ground wars without nukes, our species can get wiped out by a global nuclear war.

I don't want another ground war or a nuclear war. We cannot help what Un does, we can only react. How we react matters.

On the contrary, Kim is the one truly reacting.    He is reacting to our pattern of behavior in manufacturing fictitious threats to justify toppling dictators we've set up as obstacles to our geopolitical goals, as in Iraq,  and then in not keeping faith with dictators who does what we want and instead facilitate their being hunted down and killed, as in Libya.

Nuclear deterrent is kim's ticket for survival.   For all of trump's bluster and the idiotically cheesy chest thumping of low intelligence jingoists like A theist, no American regime would ever dare to risk nuclear retaliation on Los Angeles or Chicago in return for the pleasure of toppling Kim.

Rex tillerson's last minute back peddling about United States not seeking regime change in North Korea is 20 years and 3 wars too late. The delayed, but predictable and almost inevitable, penalty for manufacturing a fictitious chemical weapon threat from saddam Hussein in 2001 to justify regime change in iraq, and failure to assure kadafi's survival after he gave up his nuclear program at American behest, is a real ability of the North Koreans to launch nuclear tipped missiles at continental US 18 years later.