The Soulless Body and Protein Brain Mass that Is Kim Jong-un

THE REAL NEWS TODAY IS THAT NORTH KOREA IS STILL DETERMINED TO COMMIT NATIONAL SUICIDE. After meeting with President Trump at the White House on Sunday, Defense Secretary James Mattis issued a stark warning to North Korea, saying the country would be met with a "massive military response" if it threatened the US or its allies. Standing at media microphones outside the White House, Secretary Mattis warned North Korea sternly : "Any threat to the United States or its territories including Guam or our allies will be met with a massive military response. Kim Jong-un should take heed the United Nations Security Council's unified voice. All members unanimously agreed on the threat North Korea poses. And they remain unanimous in their commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Because we are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely, North Korea, but as I said, we have many options to do so." Mattis said the President wants to be briefed on all US "military options" regarding the Korean peninsula. • • • ANOTHER SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDUED. Mattis's aggressive Labor Day weekend statement came hours after North Korean state media announced the country had successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb capable of fitting on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The move is an act of deficance against Washington and the international community. The UN Security Council unanimously voted last month to impose sanctions on Pyongyang after the country launched a series of ICBMs. The Security Council announced on Sunday that it will hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss North Korea's announcement that it had tested a hydrogen bomb. US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley confirmed the meeting on Twitter. Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the test, calling the act a "serious breach" of the country's obligations. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he "strongly condemns" the sixth nuclear test, saying it was a "flagrant violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions." Meanwhile, South Korea's presidential office said the security chiefs for Seoul and Washington have spoken. The office said US National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster spoke with his South Korean counterpart, Chung Eui-yong, for 20 minutes in an emergency phone call about an hour after the detonation. And, early Sunday, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe quickly commented that if the quake was indeed a nuclear test by North Korea, it would be "absolutely unacceptable." • • • PRESIDENT TRUMP SUGGESTS FURTHER AMERICAN SANCTIONS. President Trump also condemned the North Korean action, saying he was considering sanctioning North Korea's trade partners. The President and Defense Secretary were equally aggressive in denouncing North Korea and warning it again that its actions are endangering it. The President condemned the test on Twitter Sunday morning : "North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test. Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States." Trump tweeted. When asked whether the US would attack the country, the President replied, "We'll see." This follows his tweets last month that warned NK of "fire and fury" if it threatened the US or its allies. On Sunday, Trump strongly condemned Pyongyang's actions, saying the US was considering imposing sanctions on North Korea's trade partners. President Trump suggested Sunday, after another underground nuclear test by North Korea, that he’ll halt trade with any country doing business with the rogue nation : “The United States is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea.” This was in response to North Korea claiming to have detonated a hydrogen bomb underground. Such a bomb is considered more powerful than any of the five nuclear ones North Korea has already tested. And it apparently triggered an artificial earthquake of at least a magnitude 5.7. • Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told "Fox News Sunday" that he’s preparing a new sanctions package for North Korea, following the country's overnight nuclear test, its sixth and most powerful. Secretary Mnuchin said : “I will submit new sanctions for his strong consideration. There’s much more we can do economically,” adding, "The President has made clear he’ll consider everything. We’re not going to broadcast our action.” Mnuchin said he had spoken with the President : “It’s clear this behavior is unacceptable....I will draft a sanctions bill and send it to the President. We will work with our allies. We will work with China. But people need to cut off North Korea economically." The United States has already imposed economic sanctions on North Korea to stop the country’s pursuit on a nuclear weapon, including tests on ICBMs on which to attach a nuclear warhead. • President Trump, besides calling North Korea’s actions “dangerous” and a “great threat,” also appeared to be increasingly frustrated with South Korea for failing to get North Korea to stop the nuclear testing, tweeting : “South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!” As for China, President Trump tweeted : "North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success." • • • NORTH KOREA SAYS ITS H-BOMB TEST WAS A SUCCESS. A "perfect" success to be exact. North Korea announced on Sunday that it had detonated a hydrogen bomb, possibly triggering an artificial earthquake and prompting immediate condemnation from its neighbors -- despite the rogue regime calling the test a "perfect success." North Korea also released photos of Kim Jong-un on Sunday, showing him inspecting the loading of a possible hydrogen bomb into a new intercontinental ballistic missile.The blast, carried out at 12:29 PM local time at the Punggye-ri site, triggered a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in North Korea, accroding to the US Geological Survey reported, although officials in Seoul said it was a magnitude 5.7 quake. The test was estimated to have a yield of 100 kilotons, meaning a blast that was four to five times more powerful than the explosion in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, a South Korean defense official told the country's Yonhap News Agency. The epicenter was determined to be at a well-known North Korean test site, according to media reports. Shortly after the initial quake, Yonhap said a second quake was detected with a magnitude 4.6, but South Korea's weather agency denied that another quake occurred. There was no word from the military in Seoul about the possible second quake. US intelligence agencies have been closely watching the test site since at least March, when initial signs of test preparations were visible. This would be North Korea's sixth nuclear test and first since September 2016, and Pentagon officials told Fox News on Sunday that the US government would have no official response until after the US fully assesses what happened. The US Air Force has WC-135 "sniffer" planes in Japan that will measure air samples near the Korean Peninsula to confirm the presence of radioactive particles in the atmosphere and confirm the nuclear test. The Japanese military also has radiological detection equipment in some of its jets as well. • • • THE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR MISSILE PROGRAM. North Korea conducted its fifth test in September, 2016. If confirmed, the latest test would mark yet another big step forward in NK's attempts to obtain a nuclear-armed missile capable of reaching deep into the US mainland. • North Korea conducted two nuclear tests last year and has since maintained a fast pace in weapons tests, including flight-testing developmental ICBMs and flying a powerful midrange missile over Japan last week. The Sunday photos released by the North Korean government showed Kim talking with his lieutenants as he observed a silver, peanut-shaped device that was apparently the purported thermonuclear weapon built for an ICBM. What appeared to be the nose cone of a missile could also be seen near the alleged bomb in one picture, which could not be independently verified and which was taken without outside journalists present. Another photo showed a diagram on the wall behind Kim of a bomb mounted inside a cone. Vipin Narang, an MIT professor specializing in nuclear strategy, said it's important to note that North Korea was only showing a mockup of a two-stage thermonuclear device, or H-bomb : "We won't know what they have until they test it, and even then there may be a great deal of uncertainty depending on the yield and seismic signature and any isotopes we can detect after a test." • Aside from trying to piece together the facts concerning the North's nuclear capability claims, analyzing the language Kim Jong-un uses is also critical. As part of the North's weapons work, Kim was said by his propaganda staff to have made a visit to the Nuclear Weapons Institute and inspected a "homemade" H-bomb with "super explosive power" that "is adjustable from tens (of) kiloton to hundreds (of) kiloton." But, it is almost impossible to independently confirm North Korean statements about its highly secret weapons program. South Korean government officials said the estimated explosive yield of last year's first test was much smaller than what even a failed hydrogen bomb detonation would produce. There was speculation that North Korea might have detonated a boosted fission bomb, a weapon considered halfway between an atomic bomb and an H-bomb. • While it is clear that each new missile and nuclear test gives the North invaluable information that allows big jumps in capability, the key question remains -- how far has North Korea gotten in its efforts to consistently shrink down nuclear warheads so they can fit on long-range missiles. North Korea is thought to have a growing arsenal of nuclear bombs and has spent decades trying to perfect a multistage ICBM to eventually carry smaller versions of those bombs. But, South Korea's main intelligence agency has asserted that it doesn't think Pyongyang currently has the ability to develop miniaturized nuclear weapons that can be mounted on long-range ballistic missiles. Other experts disagree and think the North may have mastered this technology. • North Korea said in its statement Sunday that its H-bomb "is a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack according to strategic goals." Kim Jong-un, according to the statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, claimed that "all components of the H-bomb were homemade...thus enabling the country to produce powerful nuclear weapons as many as it wants." In what could be read as a warning that there will be more nuclear tests, Kim underlined the need for scientists to "dynamically conduct the campaign for successfully concluding the final-stage research and development for perfecting the state nuclear force" and "set forth tasks to be fulfilled in the research into nukes." • • • THE TEXT OF THE SUNDAY NORTH KOREA PRESS RELEASE. American Thinker on Sunday published the entire North Korean online statement released by the Korean Central News Agency on Sunday, September 3, 2017 at 2:30 AM EDT. It reads : "DPRK Nuclear Weapons Institute on Successful Test of H-bomb for ICBM. Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- The Nuclear Weapons Institute of the DPRK gave the following statement in connection with the perfect success in the test of a hydrogen bomb for ICBM : Scientists in the nuclear field of the DPRK successfully carried out a test of H-bomb for ICBM in the northern nuclear test ground of the DPRK at 12:00 on September 3, true to the Workers' Party of Korea's plan for building a strategic nuclear force. The H-bomb test was carried out to examine and confirm the accuracy and credibility of the power control technology and internal structural design newly introduced into manufacturing H-bomb to be placed at the payload of the ICBM. The result of the experimental measurements showed that the power specifications of nuclear warhead including total explosion power and fission to fusion power rate and all other physical specifications reflecting the qualitative level of two-stage thermo-nuclear weapon fully complied with design figures. It was also confirmed that even though the recent test was carried out with the bomb of unprecedentedly big power, there were neither emission through ground surface nor leakage of radioactive materials nor did it have any adverse impact on the surrounding ecological environment. The test re-confirmed the precision of the compression technology of the first system of the H-bomb and the fission chain reaction start control technology and proved once again that the nuclear material utility rate in the first system and the second system reached the levels reflected in the design. Symmetrical compression of nuclear charge, its fission detonation and high-temperature nuclear fusion ignition, and the ensuing rapidly boosting fission-fusion reactions, which are key technologies for enhancing the nuclear fusion power of the second-system of the H-bomb, were confirmed to have been realized on a high level. This helped prove that the directional combination structure and multi-layer radiation explosion-proof structural design of the first system and the second system used for the manufacture of the H-bomb were very accurate and the light thermal radiation-resisting materials and neutron-resisting materials were rationally selected. The test helped draw the conclusion that the Korean-style analytic method and calculation programs for the complicated physical processes occurring in the first and second systems were put on the high level and that the engineering structure of the H-bomb as a nuclear warhead designed on the Juche basis including the structure of the nuclear charge of the second system was creditable. The test once again confirmed the reliability of the concentration-type nuke detonation control system fully verified through a nuclear warhead detonation test and test-launches of various ballistic rockets. The perfect success in the test of the H-bomb for ICBM clearly proved that the Juche-based nukes of the DPRK have been put on a highly precise basis, the creditability of the operation of the nuclear warhead is fully guaranteed and the design and production technology of nuclear weapons of the DPRK has been put on a high level to adjust its destructive power in consideration of the targets and purposes. It also marked a very significant occasion in attaining the final goal of completing the state nuclear force. The Central Committee the WPK extended warm congratulations to the scientists and technicians in the nuclear field in the northern nuclear test ground on their successful H-bomb test for ICBM." • • • DEAR READERS, as I said to a valued colleague on Sunday, if North Korea says it has some kind of primitive H-Bomb, why should we not believe it? NK's prior statements have been reasonably true, in so far as we can verify them by intelligence or by North Korean actions. As we conservatives in America have often said about Iran, if a country says it wants to destroy you, you should believe it. • One thing is certain. We are running out of threats, sanctions and Security Council resolutions. Soon, it will be time to fish or cut bait. • On Monday, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley asked the UN Security Council to impose the strongest possible sanctions against North Korea in response to the rogue nation’s most recent nuclear test, telling the Council that “North Korea is “begging for war...the time for half measures...is over. We cannot kick this can down the road any longer.” Her statements follow President Trump's toughest-yet Sunday statement : “North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success.” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said later on Sunday, after a White House meeting on the matter, that any threats by North Korea to the United State or its allies will be met with an "effective and overwhelming" military response. • President Trump and other top administration officials, as well as Ambassador Haley, have said the US intends to impose economic sanctions on countries that do business with North Korea. Who are these countries?? • Here is a list of North Korea’s top 15 trading partners -- the countries that imported the most North Korean shipments by dollar value during 2016. Also shown is each import country’s percentage share of total exports from North Korea : • China: US$2.6 billion (90% of total North Korean exports) • India: $87.4 million (3.1%) • Philippines: $51.8 million (1.8%) • Taiwan: $12.2 million (0.4%) • France: $11.4 million (0.4%) • Mozambique: $10.9 million (0.4%) • Russia: $8.8 million (0.3%) • Brazil: $8.7 million (0.3%) • Burkina Faso: $7.4 million (0.3%) • Mexico: $6.7 million (0.2%) • Germany: $6.5 million (0.2%) • Turkey: $6.3 million (0.2%) • Saudi Arabia: $6.1 million (0.2%) • Egypt: $4.8 million (0.2%) • Chile: $4.4 million (0.2%). • • There are many US allies on the list, but China's whopping purchase of 90% of North Korea's goods dwarfs the others. We might ask whether any North Korea product is so important that France or Germany or Taiwan or Russia or Turkey or Mexico or Egypt or Saudi Arabia cannot get it from another trading partner? Are these countries surrepticiously importing North Korean military wares? Are they importing nuclear components that are not available on the legal world market? Are they trying to make an anti-American statement? Are they hoping that the Dear Leader will remember their commercial aid and not turn his nuclear ICBMs on them in a pique? Or are they just plain stupid? • And, let's consider the Dear Leader -- that 33-year-old megalomaniac who has managed to bluff and then produce his way into the nuclear club. Is he also stupid, or psychotic, or suicidal? Has he coldly calculated that more sanctions will simply starve his people to a slow and painful death while he and his elites continue to eat whatever the bony near-cadavers of his farmers can continue to eke out of the earth. Has he calculated that even a nuclear firestorm will roast his already-weak-from-lack-of-food peasants while he and his elites will probably survive and be permitted to negotiate a "treaty" with the world that saves their hideously non-human hides. Is he so obsessed with destroying the United States that his own death and the destruction of his country in the process are of no importance to him? • Or is he, this third-generation criminal dictator, the personification of Evil? I don't often try to explain political events in Biblical terms, but are we face-to-face with a trial Armageddon in the soulless body and protein brain mass that is Kim Jong-un?? Has God abandoned Kim, making it necessary for us who are God's children to decide how Evil must be dealt with, how it can be contained, how it can force us to remember who we are and what our lives are intended to achieve? Is this the last, great test of human free will?? • If it is, God has given us one mighty weapon. His name is James Mattis. He was chosen by President Trump, who was certainly guided by the Hand of God. Mattis is the toughest US Secretary of Defense -- ever. And, Jim Mattius is not about to let one example of Evil overwhelm the entirety of humankind. He has the President's ear and confidence. He is supported in the White House not only by the President but by Generals Kelly and McMaster. He is at the head of the greatest, largest armed forces ever assembled. So, as we ponder in fear -- and pray that we might be saved from this nuclear nightmare -- we would do well to pray for Jim Mattis and everyone he touches, us included. God does "work in mysterious ways." But in this case, the man sitting in the Pentagon is His signal, clear and shining, that the world can be saved from the Evil of Kim Jong-un, if only we are able to marshall our free human will to take whatever steps are required -- including a nuclear blitz worthy of Joshua at the walls of Jericho, if that is the only thing the particular Evil that is Kim Jong-un will understand.