As speculation mounts that Kim Jong-un and Trump could meet this month, analysts say Pyongyang will continue to see nuclear weapons as a matter of survival

North Korea’s launch last week of a missile from a naval destroyer elicited an uncharacteristically prosaic analysis from the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un. The launch was proof, he said, that arming ships with nuclear weapons was “making satisfactory progress”.

But the test, and Kim’s mildly upbeat appraisal, were designed to reverberate well beyond the deck of the 5,000-tonne destroyer-class vessel the Choe Hyon – the biggest warship in the North Korean fleet.

His pointed reference to nuclear weapons was made as the US and Israel continued their air bombardment of Iran – a regime Donald Trump had warned, without offering evidence, was only weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

But I'm laughing harder at your other notion that the soviet ubermenschen were right about to swim across the Sea ofJapan and the US had to cheat to beat them there

Again, not sure what youre talking about, or how this follows. The only person bringing this idea is you.

Perhaps you need to check your le epic notes again.

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah must have been some other you that posted that the USSR was about to invade Japan

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Uh, yeah. It was. You realize that imperial Japan expanded beyond the island, right?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria

    Operation August Storm,[1] began on 9 August 1945 with the Soviet Union's invasion of the Empire of Japan's puppet states of Manchukuo and Mengjiang, in Japanese-occupied Manchuria and Inner Mongolia respectively. It was the largest campaign of the 1945 Soviet–Japanese War, which resumed hostilities between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Empire of Japan after almost six years of peace.

    Original claim:

    The US used the nuke to minimize potential Soviet influence over a post war Japan

    Your rebuttal:

    A normal human could not swim the Sea of Japan. 😏

    What are you even talking about?

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Ah yes, first your source was claiming they'd "liberate Tokyo" but of course you only meant 'mainland China'

    edit: to be more precise, it read like you're choking on 1945 USSR dick so much that it's hampering you from correctly understanding the equation for the 1945 US. It's gone so far that it's tickling your brain

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