Trump has been insisting that his love affair with Kim Jong Un has kept the North Korean dictator from pursuing his ambitions to be able to threaten the world with his nuclear arsenal.
Maybe this thing is some kind of phony mock-up, who knows? But he does seem to be sending a message of some sort that says he’s been busy while Trump was sleeping with his love letters under his pillow:
North Korea unveiled what analysts believe to be one of the world’s largest ballistic missiles at a military parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Workers’ Party broadcast on state-run television on Saturday.
The massive weapon was carried by an 11-axle truck at the climax of the almost two-hour ceremony and military parade in the capital of Pyongyang.Analysts said the new missile is not known to have been tested, but a bigger weapon would allow North Korea to put multiple warheads on it, increasing the threat it would pose to any targeted foe.
“Largest *road-mobile* liquid-fueled missile anywhere, to be clear,” tweeted Ankit Panda, senior fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.”Liquid fuel, Huuuuge, capable of carrying MIRV nuclear warheads,” tweeted Melissa Hanham, deputy director of Open Nuclear Network at Stanford University.
“What North Korea has shown us, what appears to be a new liquid-fueled ICBM that seems to be a derivative of what was tested back in late 2017, known as the Hwasong-15, is much bigger and clearly more powerful than anything in the DPRK’s arsenal,” said Harry Kazianis, senior director of Korean studies at the Washington DC-based Center for the National Interest.
I don’t think anyone knows yet just how much damage he’s done in national security and foreign policy.