The UN Security Council are holding a closed-door meeting on Thursday
to discuss North Korea’s recent launches of projectiles off their
coast. North Korea has confirmed that these were guided rockets.
The guided rockets flew about 250 km, and John Bolton says that they in no way violated Kim Jong Un’s pledge to the US to test launches. North Korea says the rockets were tested to confirm their usability.
Bolton clarified that the US would only consider ICBM tests a problem,
and that certainly wouldn’t impact these rockets. This is also in
keeping with Trump not being outraged by past short-range missile tests.
North Korea’s state media says that the rocket systems would be of major
use in the event of a ground war. This is clearly once again aimed at
South Korea, not the US. North Korea has been trying to develop rockets
to shore up their forces, which historically are heavily reliant on
artillery.
South Korea must be feeling like the red headed step sister.
“This is clearly once again aimed at South Korea, not the US”. Apparently Ditz believes that all members of the US Armed Forces have been withdrawn from S. Korea and our naval ships have been moved out of the range of these guided rockets. Ditz has apparently never heard of unintended secondary kills. What he wrote is dangerous nonsense.
John Bolton says that they in no way violated Kim Jong Un’s pledge to the US
What did Kim pledge? We still don’t know what was in that very large envelope he gave to Trump.
It will surprise no one here that this is great hypocrisy. But I’ll say it anyway.
Nuclear armed dictatorship N Korea can test guided short-range missiles as they please. NPT member and JCPOA compliant Iran cannot despite expressly being allowed to do so by all relevant international agreements.
Bolton must really want to keep his job.
It’s hard to effect the New American Century if you don’t have a foot on the gas pedal.
I got all hot over some inadvertent(?) clickbait headline.
‘Bolton: NK’s tests didn’t violate pledge to Trump.’
As in, pledge to TRUMP? Edit: Bush, Obama, Clinton, whatever – I’m only triggered because Trump takes great pleasure in promoting his own personal pen-pal relationships with other leaders over actual diplomatic relations.