North Korea launches another missile

[fullmetal_pirate]

Right as Kim Jong Un and Putin are meeting in Russia for arms talks. Too bad Trumps not there to form the trifecta of assholes.

[1pooh4u]

You going to post actual links cuz this is current events 

[fullmetal_pirate]

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-09-13-23/index.html

[fullmetal_pirate]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/12/asia/kim-jong-un-putin-meeting-russia-intl-hnk/index.html

[Raptorpat]

Every time I hear about a NK missile test, my first thought is always "do they really have enough missiles to be wasting them on show launches?"

[MasqueradeOverture]

3 minutes ago, Raptorpat said:

Every time I hear about a NK missile test, my first thought is always "do they really have enough missiles to be wasting them on show launches?"

Every time I hear of an NK missile test my ass gets transported back to Ebaum's World

 

[1pooh4u]

27 minutes ago, Raptorpat said:

Every time I hear about a NK missile test, my first thought is always "do they really have enough missiles to be wasting them on show launches?"

I thought the same thing. Does NK even have the means to produce for another country?  Does Russia have the capability, at the moment, to arm them?  
 

just seems like more of the same old shit. NK launches a missile so no one forgets about them. Putin has talks with another despot leader in an attempt to show, what?  Some sort of strength, I guess?  I’m not saying no one should worry about NK but it doesn’t seem like an immediate concern that they met with Russia. 

[Raptorpat]

8 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

Does Russia have the capability, at the moment, to arm them?  

I'm pretty sure it's the reverse, NK offered to arm Russia for the war on Ukraine.

[1pooh4u]

14 minutes ago, Raptorpat said:

I'm pretty sure it's the reverse, NK offered to arm Russia for the war on Ukraine.

That was the first thing I said “does NK even have the means to produce for another country” 

I think the meeting and missile launch was mostly theater because neither country is doing great.  
 

 

[Raptorpat]

My brain completely missed the "for another country" line, just like completely zeroed it out.

But yeah that's my guess, that it's a show to express solidarity against western hegemony.

[1pooh4u]

It’s cool my grammar has been shot lately because I broke up with punctuation 

[Raptorpat]

No it is definitely but those words just like did not exist to my eyeballs

[1pooh4u]

44 minutes ago, Raptorpat said:

No it is definitely but those words just like did not exist to my eyeballs

I hate when that happens. Welcome to deep adulthood 😆

[discolé monade]

does kim jong un travel only by train?

[1pooh4u]

10 minutes ago, discolé monade said:

does kim jong un travel only by train?

When I read shit about NK, always somewhere, it will mention how their infrastructure sucks. It makes them hard to take that seriously. For all we know their nuclear warheads are really just armed with boxing gloves attached to springs and are manufactured by Acme

 

[discolé monade]

apparently the last launch was favorable, despite lack of...everything.

still...one can't help but remember the early days....

 

[scoobdog]

27 minutes ago, discolé monade said:

apparently the last launch was favorable, despite lack of...everything.

still...one can't help but remember the early days....

 

One can only assume that Russia, China, or both have been, up to this point, helping North Korea along at just enough of a pace to make it seem like they're advancing without giving them enough to pose a legitimate threat to either of them.  Russia is something of a wildcard now because they're desperate and Putin has already shown he has a perchance for making really bad decisions.

[Top Gun]

I'd assume their missiles are legit because they pour the entire country's budget into them instead of, y'know, food.

[fullmetal_pirate]

On 9/13/2023 at 11:19 AM, Raptorpat said:

Every time I hear about a NK missile test, my first thought is always "do they really have enough missiles to be wasting them on show launches?"

I will admit I’ve had that thought. There’s a hashtag on Twitter that is something like “things that last longer than NK’s missles” because they are all pretty much duds.

[fullmetal_pirate]

On 9/13/2023 at 5:11 PM, scoobdog said:

One can only assume that Russia, China, or both have been, up to this point, helping North Korea along at just enough of a pace to make it seem like they're advancing without giving them enough to pose a legitimate threat to either of them.  Russia is something of a wildcard now because they're desperate and Putin has already shown he has a perchance for making really bad decisions.

The wildcard factor is the scary one. Putin is not just a bad guy, he’s a psychic megalomaniac. Dangerous in more ways than one, and apparently he’s the cult of personality, though I don’t see it.

[André Toulon]

24 minutes ago, fullmetal_pirate said:

, he’s a psychic 

😮

[fullmetal_pirate]

10 minutes ago, André Toulon said:

😮

Haha. Effing phone and autocorrect. Maybe he is psychic. That would add a whole new dimension to things 😂