Korean peninsula geopolitics for Oct. 13: Jingoism and literal geographical events

1. It appears that there has been an earthquake, or a series of them in North Korea related to their nuclear tests, indicating that they have destabilized the ground and region, geographically. (Meanwhile, the bulk of blue pilled Westerners still think Global Warming is a real thing)

S. Korea Detects Magnitude 2.9 Earthquake Near N. Korean Test Site

South Korea detects a fourth small earthquake near Pyongyang’s nuclear test site.

Seoul’s weather agency reported a magnitude 2.9 quake early Friday with the epicenter located in the northeastern territory of the isolated state.

 

Meteorologists say the quake does not appear to be man made, and may have been a result of North Korea’s previous nuclear tests.

 

Experts have speculated the mountain where Pyongyang conducts its nuclear tests could explode, which could bear the risk of radioactive pollution.

The Australian and South Korean foreign ministers are discussed how to deter North Korea’s nuclear program amid the detection of the recent earthquake.

More at Yahoo news as well.

Trump Sends Second Aircraft Carrier To Korean Peninsula With 7,500 Marines Aboard

Just one week after uttering his now-infamous “this is the calm before the storm” statement to the press ahead of a dinner with military leaders, we now learn that President Trump has dispatched a second nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, filled with 7,500 marines, to the Korean Peninsula.  Of course, this comes after rumors swirled earlier this week that North Korea is preparing to fire multiple short-range rockets around the opening of the Chinese Communist Party’s twice-a-decade congress on Oct. 18th.

 

‘The USS Theodore Roosevelt, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, is en route to the western Pacific after leaving San Diego port last week.

 

The Roosevelt will focus on maritime security operations in the Pacific and Middle East, the US military announced.

 

But the £3.4billion ($4.5billion) warship, known as “the Big Stick”, has been sent to boost US defence on the Korean peninsula, according to South Korean media.

 

It is expected to arrive in region in the coming weeks amid fears North Korea is about to test another missile or nuclear weapon.’

North Korea warns its ‘hand is on the trigger’ and is prepared to launch ‘a salvo of missiles’ at US territory Guam

North Korea has made fresh threats to attack the U.S. territory of Guam with a ‘salvo of missiles’ after a recent aviation exercise over the peninsula.

Kim Jong-Un‘s government warned that a joint exercise with Japan and South Korea has ‘hardened our determination that the U.S. should be tamed with fire’.

In a statement published in North Korean state media, Pyongyang said the military drills ‘lets us take our hand closer to the ‘trigger’ for taking the toughest countermeasure’.

 

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One Reply to “Korean peninsula geopolitics for Oct. 13: Jingoism and literal geographical events”

  1. First the 7500 people mentioned in the article are sailors not Marines, different organization and different jobs.

    Kim and China are pushing hoping we will once again give in and pay them to keep quite for a while. The problem is that waiting for a few more months will just make the war bloodier.

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