Between that and the thought that a “don’t eat that!” statement had to be released about the locusts, I’m getting my morning amusement. Thank you!

This mess goes to show what happens when you don’t finish a job right. It would have been expensive in lives to fight to the Yalu and reunify the Koreas in 1951, but it could have been done. Because it was not done, we are now potentially looking at a situation where North Korea soon will be able to intimidate the USA by nuclear threats. It will not need a large arsenal of nukes to do this. How many US cities nuked are worth stopping NorK from some mayhem it intends to commit? How much food aid to Tiny to get him to stop threatening nuclear war for a while (before he starts again). We have exiguous anti-missile defenses at present, and unless they are increased into a sophisticated, layered system, the US will be vulnerable to blackmail not only from Russia and China, but from NorK and Iran. For that matter, we’d be vulnerable to any actor, state or non-state, that can amass a fair number of nuke armed missiles within range of US targets. And if that seems far-fetched, well so did starving NorK having nuclear arms and delivery systems not long ago.