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N. Korean leader visits military unit for first time in 5 months
2019-04-18
[EN.YNA.CO.KR] North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
has made a surprise visit to an air force unit and reviewed a flight exercise, the official news agency reported Wednesday, in his first public inspection of military activities in five months.

During the visit to the Unit 1017 of the Air and Anti-aircraft Force of the Korean People's Army on Tuesday, Kim ordered pilots to "take off and perform difficult and complicated air combat actions," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

"Noting that while passing by the unit he abruptly dropped in at the unit in order to learn about the flight drill of a pursuit assault plane group, Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un said it is important to make a sudden inspection of the regular readiness of unit as a fight of the air and anti-aircraft field is waged without previous notice," KCNA said.

Kim also expressed "great satisfaction over the excellent readiness to carry out any combat task irrespective of conditions and environment," the report said.

The visit was Kim's first reported military activity after he supervised a "newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon test" in November.

Posted by:Fred

#3  Messaging intended for Mr. Trump. And Mr. Trump has experience in dealing with this type of rival.

Announces a new "tactical guided weapon" yesterday, openly takes a swipe at Mike Pompeo (meh) and publicly pops up at an air force unit to review "a flight exercise" (3 currency crash and dashes?) today. A lot of activity over 48-hours and low-key...kind of subdued...compared to the usual fire and brimstone outcrys.

I believe Kim wants to talk. But from a position of perceived strength. Who would expect anything else?

My tin foil hat says the Hanoi talks collapsed because Kim did not know if Mr. Trump would survive Mr. Cohen's ugly testimony of 28 Feb. (What I consider to be the critical drama of the "investigation"); and recently acquired an inkling that the Mueller Report was going to fizzle, albeit loudly.

And thence deduced that Mr. Trump was again a force to deal with.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2019-04-18 22:31  

#2  IG readiness testing.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-04-18 20:47  

#1  The only reason he went was a chicken wing buffet that made it worth his while.
Posted by: Raj   2019-04-18 01:09  

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