Kim to Trump: I got a Deal for you..

According to published reports Kim Jong Un is offering to get rid of his nukes if we move our nukes out of the Peninsula and promise not to invade. 

Now, we don't know if Kim came up with this himself. We think it's possible that Trump really has Kim on the ropes and that then CIA Director Mike Pompeo came up with this plan but Trump's letting Kim present it to save face.

That potential deal rhymes with history. It's basically the deal we offered Khrushchev after the Cuban Missile Crisis. No nukes in Cuba, we promise not to invade, and we pull our old Jupiter Missiles out of Turkey.

This is a strong precedent.

We suppose one could argue that withdrawing our nukes from Korea is a high price to pay. But come on, does anyone really believe we'd use nukes?

What about the North Korean numerical military advantage? In 1985, 1995, sure they could achieve victory. But the Norks are using ancient equipment and have an army that is starving. Does anyone really believe the Norks could take on the South Korean Army? Those are some tough bastards:

Nork Nukes Non

By now you've all seen this:

We cannot say what is in Kim's heart, it is beyond even our powers of deduction. But the smiles, the handshake the warmth between the two leaders all seem genuine. 

We're serious. Here's another genuinely warm moment between two adversarial leaders:

Here's Begin and Sadat after their nations fought four wars in 25 years:

By way of contrast here's Yitzak Rabin being made to shake Yassir Arafat's* hand:

Everything about Rabin's demeanor says, 'Let's get this over with.'

So we think something genuine is afoot.

*Gay leader of the Palestinians who died of AIDs.

How Can this Be?...

Via the increasingly indispensable Don Surber we learn that the Chinese Central Bank will no longer do business with Kim.

No outside bank means no capital. It means no foreign currency reserves. It means Kim's ability to buy on the international market is crippled. That's a body blow to Kim.

Trump just got China to stop banking with Kim. That's a yuuge deal folks.

Still think Chuck and Nancy rolled Trump on DACA? Suuuure.

When will the naysayers learn?

Trump has given Kim a nick name: 'Rocket Man'. That's bad news Kim, bad news. When Trump nicknames you you're finished. Just ask 'Low Energy Jeb', 'Lying Ted' and of course 'Crooked Hillary'.

You know, a lot of people like to jokingly call Trump a 'god-emperor'. But we're going to go a step further.

Trump is the Kwisatz Haderach!

Trump at the UN on the Norks

As noted in a previous post we liked the president's stance on North Korea.

[Nuke 'em? Americans...-Ed]

There's really nothing left to do. We've been trying diplomacy for 25 years. Hadn't worked, has it?

[Are you advocating war?]

Not today.

[Tomorrow?-Ed]

No. In this short piece his most preppiness Tucker Carlson makes a great point. The foreign policy class has been wrong about everything.

[He's talking about Iran, dumb ya dumb Yank-Ed]

But the point still holds.

Again, we've been negotiating with the Norks for 25 years its gotten us nothing but a whacky dictator with a stockpile of nukes and ICBMs.

[So what would you do?-Ed]

If Kim is getting a missile ready for launch we destroy it on the launchpad.

If Kim launches a missile we destroy the launchpad and one other site.

If Kim launches missiles at any piece of US territory we launch a sustained aerial campaign against him.

If Kim uses a nuke in anger we destroy North Korea.

[It sounds all too easy-Ed]

It's better than anything the pointy-head foreign policy types have come up with.

Fun with Nuke Map

Nuke map is a fun and macabre website that allows the user to nuke the location of his choice with the nuclear weapon of his choice and then shows him estimated casualties, radioactive fallout, etc etc.

For example, we just nuked NYC with the 100 megaton Tsar Bomba, the most powerful weapon ever built. We killed eight million people and flattened everything in NYC and half of Long Island and Westchester. The fireball alone has a radios of 6 kilometers.

So we did the next obvious thing and detonated a Nork 10 kt bomb of Guam's capital of Hagatna and killed 7000 and wounded another 14,000.

We then drooped a W-87 Minute Man III warhead of 300 kt on Pyongyang, just for fun. The result is 700 ,000 dead, 1,000,000 wounded.

Try it!

The Neocon gets Based

So Kim is threatening to launch four missiles into the waters off of Guam.

Look folks, this is an act of war.

No Great Democracy in history would tolerate what the Nork's are doing. Athens would have sent Themistocles and the navy. Rome would have called up four legions. The Swiss Cannons would have called out the free-pikes. Palmerston would have sent a gunboat.

At this point it comes down to pride, doesn't it.

Something else. The great M Steyn points out that every third world  craphole wants to get its hands on nukes. It's about time we set a precedent that no one can have nukes unless we decide they can.

You talkin' to me?

Mark Steyn, as is his habit, makes a great point, basically saying that President Trump's bellicose rhetoric vis-a-vis the Norks is wholly appropriate.

Indeed this is the Template. All these other tinpot, busted arse nations are watching for what happens next.

Look, at some point when someone talks smack at you, you gotta talk smack back. Maybe its a New York thing?

Tiger's Tail...

...Looks like its about to be overtaken by events.

So we're setting it aside.

At some point we'll put all the posts together and finish it up, but not now.

So you have President Trump promising biblical level destruction and Kim saying bring it on. The closest analogy I can think of is Kuwait in 1990. Frankly, we've never really seen anything like this. We do recall during a similar crisis  with the Norks in mid-90's Bill saying, 'It would be the end of their country.'

We take this seriously.

We have one principle when it comes to situations like this. We ask ourselves, WWRD?

Four Legions.

Tiger's Tail: Fire From the Sly

'I do not need Nuclear Weapons!' exclaimed Commander, US Forces, Korea. 'I need time.'
'You don't have it,' Defense Secretary Mattis replied.

As South Korean forces gathered in Seoul, Uijongbu and on the Han River, the Trump Administration made he still controversial decision to fly into Korea units of the 82nd Airborne Division.  As the battle of Uijonhbu was beginning, one brigade of the division was airlifted to Inchon International Airport with no heavy equipment. Units of the brigade debarked and proceeded across the causeway to shore A second brigade was just a few hours behind.

For three days American, South Korean, and Japanese air power mercilessly hammered North Korean logistics. Everywhere throughout the peninsula one heard the sound of aircraft. After the first day of the war these were almost universally friendly and in their quest to gain air superiority, Allied air forces scored an impressive 133-7 kill record.

Command and control targets throughout the north were hammered by sustained Tomahawk strikes. One spectacular strike leveled party headquarters and the presidential palace in Pyongyang. But the main effort fell upon North Korean logistics running to the south.

By the end of the 3rd day of the war these strikes had taken their toll on the North Koreans. It is now known that North Korean armor and mechanized units were short of fuel and ammunition. Supply trucks that entered the Red Triangle had a 50/50 chance of making it to the front. During the 4th day of the war, North Korean troops , never particularly well fed, were actually going hungry.

Indeed it was North Korea's sustained food shortages that great hampered their sabotage efforts...

Tigers Tail: The Red Triangle Looms

As the U.S. Second Infantry Division was fighting its way into the pantheon of American military history the South Korean VI Corps grimly held in the Uijongbu Corridor to the east, while the South Korean I Corps did the same in the Munson Corridor to the west.

The the west he brunt of the first day's effort fell to the ROK 1st Infantry division which by nightfall was fought out by successive waves of North Korean armor. Though exhausted the division fell back in good order and passed the defense of the Munson Corridor to the ROK 25th Infantry Division. Fearing another nuclear strike commanders here deployed their battalions in open formation. Thought partially protected from a nuclear blast, the dispersed formation was less able to absorb the blows form the North Koreans. Several North Korean formations, some battalion sized slipped through the 25th Infantry Division's lines and engaged the ROK 9th Infantry Division. With rear area formations now under attack, South Korean commanders believed the communists had achieved a mass breakthrough and ordered the I Corps to retreat to the South Bank of the Han River. This left the ROK 25th Division in lurch and began a saga of fighting retreat rivaling that of the U.S. X Corps at Chosin during the last war.

In the Uijongbu Corridor the VI Corps of three infantry divisions was steadily pushed south by concerted North Korean pressure. It seemed that despite the massive losses inflicted by American and South Korean air power, the communists just kept coming. By the end of the second day the ROK 6th Infantry division was pushed off to the east, while the 3rd and 8th Infantry Divisions struggled to keep their formations coherent as they pulled back south through the corridor. Both divisions regrouped along the ridge just north of Seoul and running west to Uijongbu, which was now occupied by the Capitol Infantry, or Tiger Division. The 17th Infantry Division came up form Seoul and occupied a hill to the Southwest of Uijongbu, thus protecting the capitol but leaving open Uijongbu's left flank.

By dawn of the third day the battle map showed a giant, red inverse triangle bracketed by the Han River in the west, with its point bearing down on Seoul. While the government there evacuated to Daejon 75 miles to the south, the President remained in Seoul where he was in constant contact with the Trump administration.

Even as American B-1 and B-2 Bombers hammered North Korean logistics, and wave after wave of Tomahawk missile swarmed over the DMZ the South Korean President demanded, 'Where are your troops! Where are your troops!'

'Those decisions are being made,' President Trump replied.
'We are dying,' replied the South Korean President. 'Must I ask the Japanese for help?'
'What is it you would like me to do?' President Trump asked.
'Mr. President, my Minister of Defense has prepared a list of twenty five targets he believes suitable for nuclear attack...'

If you like Tiger's Tail, you'll love Israel Strikes.

Tiger's Tail Part Two: The Nihilist

The North Korean's nuclear strike paralyzed the Trump Administration, dividing it into two factions those that wanted to immediately flood the country with reinforcements and those that wanted to halt those reinforcements and simply retaliate in kind.

For twenty four crucial hours the president simply did not know what to do.

As Kim's armies advanced on Seoul, North Korean troops showed a barbarity and nihilism not faced by the Americans since the Second World War.

Against orders most young soldiers carried their smart phones into battle. Retreating American forces were not able in most cases to recover the bodies of their dead. Cunning North Korean political officers recovered as many phones as they could find. What happened next caused an uproar at home. The North Koreans took over social media accounts of many American dead. Here they posted photos of the dead owners of those accounts. In hundreds of cases they contacted via phone or text the bereaved families and mocked or taunted them.

By the third day of the war the North Koreans had several hundred American prisoners. They subjected several dozen female prisoners to brutal gang rape, often broadcast on FB Live. North Korean political officers singled out several black soldiers and forced them to read statements condemning 'White America'. The same was done with a few Hispanic prisoners. The North Koreans executed several captured white officers and posted the videos on prominent black social media sites.

Kim could not have been happier with the overall results. American media covered thees atrocities exclusivity, ignoring entirely the course of the war, the heroics stands by surviving individual units of the 2nd Infantry Division and the fanatical defense of the Han River Plain by the South Korean Army.

As the North Korean Army reached the outskirts of Seoul the Trump Administration came to a decision...

Life Imitates Will Stroock

Via Vox Day we learn that China is mobilizing troops in Manchuria against North Korea. In conjunction with the President's deployment of two carrier battle groups to the region, this is interesting.

We suspect that the deployment of Chinese troops is just a diplomatic message to the whack job running North Korea. But what if it isn't? We were stunned when President Trump ordered the strike on Syria. What if he and the Chinese have had enough?

Well, someone's already written a book that covers this. From To Defend the Earth's 2nd chapter:

Six hours into their massive assault, Chinese field commanders reported that the lead brigades of two infantry and two mechanized divisions were across the Yalu and fighting to consolidate their bridgeheads. The already battered and shell-shocked North Korean troops, desperately fighting in isolated and ever shrinking pockets, could not hear the drone of engines high above, the second wave of transport aircraft carrying crack Chinese paratroopers south to Pyongyang. As planned Liao-pen ordered two reserve infantry divisions to begin crossing the Yalu. Once across these divisions were to advance along two axes toward Pyongyang, one near the coast, and one further inland. The 4^th Armored Division would come up behind these two divisions for an eventual dash to Pyongyang.
Liao-pen had been concerned that Kim would lob Scud Missiles into China. He didn’t. Instead he launched them at Japan. None got through, however, as the Japanese Navy’s Aegis destroyers shot them out of the sky. Several dozen North Korean jets also tried to fly across the Sea of Japan, but these were engaged and destroyed by the Japanese air force. By noon the Americans reported that a brigade of the 82^nd Airborne Division had secured Yongbyon but could find no weapons of mass destruction. Again? Liao-pen said to himself. Most importantly as far as he was concerned, the coastal column had pushed more than thirty kilometers inside North Korea and was reporting that resistance was slackening dramatically. The inland column was about halfway to Pyongyang.