T-Rex on North Korea: “The policy of strategic patience has ended"

Yikes. Not exactly "I believe it is peace for our time".

The NY Times coverage includes this crystallization of the conventional wisdom regarding the motivation of the reigning NoKo thugs:

But classified assessments of the North that the Obama administration left for its successors included a grim assessment by the intelligence community: that North Korea’s leader, Mr. Kim, believes his nuclear weapons program is the only way to guarantee the survival of his regime and will never trade it away for economic or other benefits.

The assessment said that the example of what happened to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the longtime leader of Libya, had played a critical role in North Korean thinking. Colonel Qaddafi gave up the components of Libya’s nuclear program in late 2003 — most of them were still in crates from Pakistan — in hopes of economic integration with the West. Eight years later, when the Arab Spring broke out, the United States and its European allies joined forces to depose Colonel Qaddafi, who was eventually found hiding in a ditch and executed by Libyan rebels.

#ShePersisted!

Lest you marvel at the capability of the NSA, one clue as to the NoKo thinking came from their own media. Here is the BBC from last September:

Might Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi explain Kim Jong-un's determination to get his own nuclear arsenal?

The lynching of the Libyan leader after he had renounced nuclear weapons and the hanging of the Iraqi president have been cited by the North Korean media as the rationale for their own country's determination not to be put off by sanctions despite the poverty there.

As it is sometimes put: Gaddafi gave up the bomb and lost his head. Saddam was toppled because he did not have it.

After Pyongyang's last nuclear test in January, a commentary in North Korea's media said: "History proves that powerful nuclear deterrence serves as the strongest treasured sword for frustrating outsiders' aggression."

It continued: "The Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq and the Gaddafi regime in Libya could not escape the fate of destruction after being deprived of their foundations for nuclear development and giving up nuclear programmes of their own accord."

Pretty subtle, but we managed to crack the code. Of course, inscrutable hints were dropped even back in 2011:

SEOUL, South Korea — A North Korean statement that Libya’s dismantling of its nuclear weapons program had made it vulnerable to military intervention by the West is being seen by analysts as an ominous reinforcement of the North’s refusal to end its own nuclear program.

North Korea’s official news agency carried comments this week from a Foreign Ministry official criticizing the air assault on Libyan government forces and suggesting that Libya had been duped in 2003 when it abandoned its nuclear program in exchange for promises of aid and improved relations with the West.

Calling the West’s bargain with Libya “an invasion tactic to disarm the country,” the official said it amounted to a bait and switch approach. “The Libyan crisis is teaching the international community a grave lesson,” the official was quoted as saying Tuesday, proclaiming that North Korea’s “songun” ideology of a powerful military was “proper in a thousand ways” and the only guarantor of peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Odd that the failing NY Times forgot to blame Bush when they forgot to mention Hillary's Libya debacle.

Comments

[Buckeye]

An excellent history lesson from Amity Shlaes.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/would-you-rather-see-trumps-tax-return-or-have-saturday-off-1489791846

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Alas, Buckeye, the Google trick no longer works.

[maryrose]

Hammer program sounds pretty serious.

[Rocco]

Do we trust Scary Larry?

[daddy]

Apache Helicopter Guns Down Boat Full of Somali Refugees Fleeing Yemen

So were they fleeing gas explosions, or where they the guys causing the gas explosions?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/13/canada-would-have-to-double-defense-spending-to-meet-basic-nato-requirements/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social

[lyle]

Who is Scary Larry, again?

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4327342/Melania-s-parents-join-Trumps-weekend-Mar-Lago.html

[Threadkiller]

Larry Klayman, I assume, Lyle.

http://kjzz.org/content/136962/man-sheriff-joe-arpaio-hired-investigate-federal-agencies-tries-intervene-contempt

[Rocco]

Larry Johnson, ex CIA and good friend of Hillary supporter, Valerie Plame. If this website is to be believed, he's one of Napolitano's sources also.

http://heavy.com/news/2017/03/judge-andrew-napolitano-gchq-donald-trump-fox-news-who-bio-age-married-family-views-net-worth/

[Rocco]

I should have noted he was mentioned in Clarice's link above.

[Threadkiller]

Oh.

[Threadkiller]

http://www.thepostemail.com/tag/dennis-montgomery/

[Clarice Feldman]

Thanks, TK--I checked and you're right he's apparently a loon and a conman.

[Clarice Feldman]

Scratch that article--tk is right and the sources about "Hammer" exceedingly suspect.

[sbw]

a loon and a conman

Fits so many people.

[narciso]

Now Dennis Montgomery is the one who came up with info behind the air France standown in December 03, which John weisman turned into the plot behind direct action some years later, involving a north African terrorist.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Scary Larry was leader of the PUMAs (Party Unity My Arse) when the Smartest Woman in the World was defeated* by the SMITR.

*When it's caucus time in Texas and the chicanery is on the stage.

[Threadkiller]

a loon and a conman

I know about these people.

[narciso]

Maybe scary Larry was mensch's source, she's clearly credible enough for the times to give her a platform.

[daddy]

Tough to feel bad for a Mezvinsky, but doing my earlier Chelsea pic post I was scrolling through google images of "Chelsea Clinton and her husband," and on 9 out of 10 images when she's got a smile going his dour puss looks like he'd rather be anywhere else on the planet.

What level of Purgatory is that?

[Truthbetold5]

Here is a very credible source

NSA Whistleblower William Binney: The Future of FREEDOM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3owk7vEEOvs&ebc=ANyPxKo2Oq7ZoKidUz1M5X3s7JDjhFApspqiu7zJ2VIFafQj4gGYz0zgMOTHWDLZFmXCJQ5l3lynnKd5Pgr7Pq0mygTqyLt8qg

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Clarice - fake but accurate?

[maryrose]

We will find out once the hearings commence on Monday.

[Maybe she has 'people' for that.]

Heh, she can't even straighten a tie.

[anonamom]

At one time, I believe when she was a freshman at Stanford, Chelsea thought she might be a pediatrician.

Too bad she didn't follow that dream. Though I'm betting the competition in her pre med classes likely discouraged her.

She should have gone to Arkansas State. She might not have been so lost at 37.

Her husband looks like a lax bro douche. (Says the mother of a lax player)

[daddy]

Bill O'Reilly finds an acorn: Bill O’Reilly on Hillary’s Call for Unity: A Bunch of BS, Worst Candidate I’ve Seen in 40 Years (Video)

Bill O’Reilly: That’s the biggest bunch of BS I’ve ever heard in my life. I mean this is the most divisive woman in the country and she runs around like she wants us to listen to each other?… You know I don’t bear Hillary Clinton any ill will at all. She was the worst candidate I have ever seen in my entire life covering news for more than 40 years. I just hope she doesn’t try and get back in the game.

[dublindave]

Perhaps.......he'll release the evidence soon.

I've lost my...entire.....family....

[Threadkiller]

What level of Purgatory is that?

The Down Low Club level, daddy.

[daddy]

I can't help myself TK.

I feel for the poor bastard:(

[narciso]

That last should have had a snark tag;
http://circa.com/world/global-news/a-man-was-killed-after-trying-to-grab-a-paris-airport-soldiers-gun

[Threadkiller]

The Dour and The Dowry

[maryrose]

Daddy:
I feel for Chelsea
Loser parents and a loser husband.
Plus she has this inbred sense of entitlement and never did an honest day's work in her life.
She is clueless about what real life entails.
What will she do after her parents pass away?
She isn't prepared to handle anything.

[DrJ]

What will she do after her parents pass away?

Retire, and count her money like Scrooge McDuck.

We can hope!

[maryrose]

She reminds me of Monica Lewinsky.
The Clintons ruin anything they touch.
I agree with OReilly's assessment.
Hllary is phony , fake and. Liar.

[maryrose]

Why isn't she doing something to help people in poverty or the homeless.
At least Caroline Kennedy has some things she has accomplished.I just hope Chelsea doesn't become a grifter like her parents. She was

[narciso]

The fellow was named Ziyad Ben belcacem, clearly a misunderstood Mormon.

[James D]

I don't feel anything but contempt and hatred for either the Omen or her crooked, scuzzy husband.

I do hope they make each other miserable for the (too long, however long it is) lengths of their lives, and when those lives end, I hope they go into the Lake of Fire.

And I think even that is being too kind to them.

[Old Lurker]

"What will she do after her parents pass away?
She isn't prepared to handle anything."

Marry a Kennedy?

[Jim Eagle]

I post this Times article on the heartburn Trump has caused the Brits by citing The Judge's accusation that GCHQ is behind the surveillance on him by order of Obama, just for the comment section.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/trump-tapping-row-deepens-after-ridiculous-claims-about-gchq-xlw2blkrv?CMP=TNLEmail_118918_1491561

Think twice about that so-called Special Relationship. I go through this all the time with my British and Belgian relatives. Hard to argue with a mob of eejits.

[Davod]

"How come they are having so many "Gas Explosions" over there if they're all living on renewable energy?"

Many years ago, in the mid 2000's, a townhouse, in I think it was Minneapolis, blew up at night. I mean it was destroyed. Initially, the word was that the townhouse resident had many gas cylinders in the townhouse. Then, all of a sudden, it was written up as a normal gas main leak.

[Jim Eagle]

BTW, if you all think LaGuardia is a hellhole of an airport, then what would you think of Orly. The most insanely, inefficient airport I have ever used.

[narciso]

Originally the Grey wolves were the bete noires

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-turkey-security-germany-idUKKBN16P0LO

[James D]

You know, of the Omen would just shut the eff up, and if her vile parents and their hangers-on would stop pushing her into the public eye, she could go on and enjoy her ill-gotten and undeserved lifestyle and I wouldn't give her a second thought.

Lots of awful, or at least vapid and useless people are born into wealth and ease. That's how the world is, and I accept that. They're better off than me, and I'm better off than lots of other people, and none of us got a say in the circumstances of our parentage or inheritances.

But when someone who did absolutely nothing to earn or deserve the life she leads, and was given it by vile traitorous criminals, feels that she can tell me how to live my life - and, worse, seeks the power to make me live according to her choices, I have a lot of problems with that.

[Clarice Feldman]

Orly is terrible if you need to transfer from an international to a national flight, I agree. When it was first built and less crowded,and you were simply landing there or transfering on the same airline it was fine.

[Davod]

Re. parallel parking. When I first arrived in DC in the 80s, I purchased a car with really good power steering. One night I had to show some colleagues from overseas the DC night life. They were amazed at how tight a spot you could parallel park in using the power steering. Got us close to the clubs.

[Jim Eagle]

We should ask Mr. Blatt to look at all of Obama's books and writings compared to Bill Ayers.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-did-tolkien-have-against-the-word-she-1489529783

[Beasts of England]

Congrats on the new lab puppy, daddy!

[narciso]

The usual suspects:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3535924/posts

[Beasts of England]

'DC night life...'

Clearly an oxymoron. :)

[jimmyk]

I don't feel anything but contempt and hatred for either the Omen or her crooked, scuzzy husband.

Contrast the Trump kids and Jared Kushner. Coming from money and privilege (and in Jared's case, like Mezvinsky, having a father who did time) doesn't necessarily result in a smug sense entitlement. The MSM hasn't even been able to make up stuff about them, much less find actual dirt, and you know they've tried.

[Jim Eagle]

BoE,

I take it you haven't been to Adams-Morgan?

When my office was on 15th and K, across from McPherson Square, if I worked a little late and came out the door around 7:30pm, I would be greeted by a number of "Ladies of the Night" beginning their shift.

In the heart of Gucci Gulch:)

[maryrose]

A close one between Villanova and Wisconsin.

[jimmyk]

if you all think LaGuardia is a hellhole of an airport, then what would you think of Orly

As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I like LaGuardia because it's small (never more than a short walk to the gate), easy to get to (20 minutes from midtown Manhattan with no traffic, rarely more than 40 even even in rush hour). It's similar to Reagan in DC. Some of the newer terminals are actually pretty nice. More recently (and temporarily) they've ruined it because of construction--you have to drive around some pretzel path to get to the dropoff/pickup areas.

[Captain Hate]

Though I'm betting the competition in her pre med classes likely discouraged her.

Organic Chemistry. Boom; adios Omen.

[DrJ]

Organic Chemistry.

I may be one of the few kooks who had a blast with both organic and physical chemistry. For most people those are oil and water.

[Beasts of England]

I'm familiar with Adams-Morgan, but don't remember any nightlife, JiB. Will try again next time I'm up that way...

[RattlerGator]

Can Wisconsin pull off this upset !?! 62-61, 84 seconds left.

[daddy on iPad]

Speaking of crappy airports, here's an interesting local story. The village of Aniak ("Go Halfbreeds!") is getting a new Runway put in against the wishes of the villagers: A new $55 million runway is in the works for Aniak. People there don't see any need.

Now the state of Alaska is about to launch a project to shift the Aniak runway 261 feet at an estimated cost of $55 million. But almost no one in the village sees the runway relocation as necessary or even beneficial, beyond construction jobs and a temporary boost to local lodges and other businesses. The state airport will stay where it is, slapdab in the center of town.

In practical terms, the runway will be shorter, narrower — and safer, according to the state Department of Transportation. And with that, the Federal Aviation Administration will pay most of the bill.

I'm knee-jerk with the villagers. Our $78 Million Dollar Ice-breaking Ferry Boat created a lot of local jobs too, but wound up being a complete boondoggle for Taxpayers.

From the comments: "$55,000,000 for a town of 500 people = $110,000 per person to UPGRADE the airport. Stop the insanity. Are there any lawmakers that understand basic economics? This is why we have a $20 Trillion and growing US debt and an AK budget that is unsustainable even if lawmakers start spending the PDF (it will not be inflation protected)."

[maryrose]

Traveling called.

[maryrose]

Foul on Hayes.
Refs want Nova to win.

[maryrose]

Tie game

[maryrose]

Badgers have ball with 23 seconds.

[Captain Hate]

I may be one of the few kooks who had a blast with both organic and physical chemistry. For most people those are oil and water.

I enjoyed the lectures in organic. The labs were complete grinds but I didn't start a fire unlike some others. I was just too immature at that point in life to be a good student in a class that has a lot of rules to learn along with many exceptions.

[maryrose]

Wisconsin scores

[maryrose]

11.4 seconds.

[RattlerGator]

'Sconsin !!!

[Captain Hate]

Way to choke, Villanova.

[maryrose]

More free throws got the first one
Time out Nova.
Wisconsin up by 3

[maryrose]

3.4 seconds

[Beasts of England]

Wisconsin!!

[maryrose]

Wisconsin wins! She screamed!

[daddy on iPad]

Re. parallel parking. When I first arrived in DC in the 80s, I purchased a car with really good power steering. One night I had to show some colleagues from overseas the DC night life. They were amazed at how tight a spot you could parallel park in using the power steering. Got us close to the clubs.

David, When Beldar takes over the planet I hope they eliminate everybody but the people who can't parallel park.

[Buckeye]

Go B1G!

[Jim Eagle]

Wisconsin just broke a lot of brackets. I wouldn't want to have a knee replacement operation tomorrow with my Ortho?

[jimmyk]

I found myself in Adams-Morgan (a hotel I was staying at was nearby) sometime last year and while it was fairly lively, I felt as though I was the only person there over 30.

I've also stayed near 15th & K and never noticed any of the "night life" JiB mentioned. That either means I'm not very observant, or that the neighborhood has changed. Downtown DC does seem to roll up the sidewalks on weekday evenings, but Dupont Circle, Adams-Morgan, and Georgetown are a bit livelier, though not exactly heart-thumping.

[daddy on iPad]

Davod grrrrrr.

And I hope they also kill everybody involved with creating spellcheck.

[Frau Da Leben um Mitternacht]

'DC night life...'
Clearly an oxymoron. :)

Nobody does night life like JOM After Dark aka The Night Crew.

[Jim Eagle]

He is my friend, a Nova and Georgetown Med grad but not the one that is going to do the procedure. LOL.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Wisconsin wins. "Trump effect" texted a friend of mine. She noticed they had gold lettering on their uniforms - Wisconsin doesn't have gold in their colors. Her son went to Wisconsin.

Ta-da!

LOL!

[maryrose]

Parallel parking and D.C. Nightlife?
Come on people, it is March Madness!

[PD]

Tough to feel bad for a Mezvinsky, but doing my earlier Chelsea pic post I was scrolling through google images of "Chelsea Clinton and her husband," and on 9 out of 10 images when she's got a smile going his dour puss looks like he'd rather be anywhere else on the planet.

I can't understand at all what his problem is. A wife with a face that reminds you of both Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Rodham? That's a two-fer if I've ever heard of one.

[jimmyk]

A wife with a face that reminds you of both Bill ClintonWebb Hubbell and Hillary Rodham Rodham?

FTFY

[Threadkiller]

Maybe it is the part of her face that reminds him of Webb Hubbell.

[maryrose]

Derrick don't know the last name on Northwestern's team is a graduate of my high school in Cleveland.
Charlie Hall the son of Brad Hall and Julia Louis Dreyfus is also on Northwestern's team playing Gonzaga on Fox

[Threadkiller]

Jimmy cut in line!!

[maryrose]

It is Derrick Pardon.

[Frau Das Leben um Mitternacht]

Who digs up useless Richard Falk and starts his lips moving? Despicable! He co-authored the Israel=apartheit report for which Rima Khalaf resigned her UN post rather than withdraw the report..

https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/03/17/falk-should-have-been-discredited-decades-ago/

[Frau Das Leben um Mitternacht]

The lips are pure Hubbell but those fingers are pure Bent Willie. Maybe Skip Gates can track down a common Hubbell/Blythe ancestor.

[narciso]

Well falk has long since proved himself a knave, as is any institution that employs him.

[Beasts of England]

#24 for Gonzaga eats a lot of groceries...

[Jim Eagle]

jimmyK,

Of course, my experience was in the 190-1992 time frame. Hell I remember Duke Zeibert and Mel Krupin's pickles. OL and Clarice aren't old enough to remember that:)

[narciso]

The filtering isn't very solid here:

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6329595&postID=6650006258169748361&bpli=1

[Jim Eagle]

We all know who was helped out big time from the Nova loss, right?

Captain Hate will tell us in {redacted for lent} language. Take it away, Cap:)

[Old Lurker]

I was partying near McPherson Square & 15th twenty years before Jack even got there and remember Duke in his OLD place...there was a topless bar around the corner so my time downtown must even predate knowing Mrs. Lurker...

:-)

[Man Tran]

daddy,

They moved the taxiway on our little strip over about 5' and made it narrower by about the same because of some lame new FAA reg that worried about passing Caravan wingtips clipping under some arbitrary worst case analysis. The cost was substantial.

DrJ,

Physical chemistry. Two data points. A guy that worked as a welder and went to school part time back in the day at ASU when I was building a race car was almost bored by physchem. I couldn't understand any random paragraph in his textbook.

The brother of a Chinese coder that I work with (Buckeye knows her) was a physchem prof in Beijing. He's obviously a bright guy, but it is amazing how narrow the intellect spread. In his case, it may be total lack of motivation.

BTW did you track down that video on Origami?

[DrJ]

ManTran,

No, I didn't watch the origami video.

[Beester]

No worries here JIB, my ortho is a B1G guy. On Wisconsin! Here's hoping the Wolverines and Spartans follow suit.

[Jim Eagle]

OL,

Then Krupin was his bartender back then, right? It got crazy when Duke moved to lower Connecticut and L Street with Krupin across the street from him. Lot of fun at both bars and restaurants.

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

I don't know, JiB, maybe the Holes. Jay Wright coached like a goof down the stretch, expecting the zebras to bail out every ill advised drive in the white timber. The NCAA completely blew Wisconsin's seeding. Maybe they'll trot out Gene Smith to "explain" it.