Fair enough. I also have the right to tell them to fuck off. Just as Chinese or Korean people who enjoy dog meat have the right to tell some hand-wringing  Westerner to fuck off.

Why are pigs more acceptable to eat than dogs?

I don’t know about China but in Korea dog meat is really only eaten by the elderly and inhabitants of rural areas. A lot of Koreans (like my ex-girlfriend) really abhor the practice. 

So? Do Hindu’s have a right to judge me for eating an animal they consider sacred?

That’s how I felt when I had it in Korea. It was interesting to try but not something I would order regularly.

Yes, I expect Kim would understand the difference. People who call him an idiot are ignorant and know nothing about North Korea. KJU wouldn’t have been able to assume power and consolidate it at such a young age in a relatively short period of time if he was an idiot. He’s vicious, not stupid.

Do you really not understand the difference between President Trump tweeting that out of the blue during a period of tension and reporting that he almost sent that tweet out months later?

Do you know what I&W is? Indicators and warnings. It’s what we looked for from NK when I was an analyst for USFK. North Korea has a pretty decent intelligence service and a tweet from POTUS saying that we are evacuating military dependents from the Korean peninsula is a huge fucking I&W. Evacuating dependents is…

Except nothing happened. The North Koreans aren’t going to give up their nuclear deterrent willingly. They spent decades, untold amounts of money, and starved millions of their citizens to get these weapons. They aren’t going to give them up the year they became operational.

Not one single North Korean expert believes that.

You mean the parade where nearly all the AFVs had “Destroy the American imperialist invader forces” painted on them wasn’t about peace and economic development?

“I think that a pretty large scale conventional conflict could potentially unfold for quite some time between nuclear powers before we mutually assured-ly destroy each other...”

Mistakes and escalation. Syrian regime and Russian forces are just about to begin an offensive on Idlib Province. The US has military forces in northern Syria (among other places in the Middle East). The Trump administration has threatened retaliation for any chemical weapons usage in that offensive. There is a large…

LOL! Russian troll is Russian.

The guy who went to UPenn and shits on his attorney general for going to the University of Alabama is a man of the people. LOL!

We never should have allowed dependents to go to the ROK in the first place.

A new world war is far more likely to begin in Syria than in Korea. It does feel like summer 1939 though.

Yeah, I don’t know what fucking expert Fox News had saying that. I have a degree in Korean studies and was an intel analyst for USFK and not one single expert on Korea that I know believes that North Korea has any inclination towards giving up their nuclear deterrent.

Kim Jong Un is a lot more savvy than he is given credit for. He was chosen as successor by Kim Jong Il over his two older brothers and had assume the throne with only a few years of being groomed for power. In contrast Kim Il Sung groomed his son for nearly two decades. KJU took power under the age of 30 and…

Not yet I think. The Republican controlled Congress has given Trump carte blanche as long as they get their own policies through. They aren’t acting as a true check on the Executive. The true test will be how Trump acts if the Democrats take the House and Senate.