BREAKING: Trump defends Kim, after North Korea fires "unidentified projectiles" towards Japan

[Jeffersons Ghost]

North Korea says it's willing to talk with US, and launches projectile
By Jake Kwon and Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Updated 5:33 AM ET, Tue September 10, 2019

Seoul, South Korea (CNN)North Korea launched two unidentified projectiles from South Pyongan Province toward the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on Tuesday morning, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement.

The JCS said they received warnings of the twin launches at 6:53 am and 7:12 am Korean time. They are believed to have flown a maximum of 330 kilometers (205 miles).

The launches happened just hours after a top North Korean diplomat working on nuclear negotiations with the United States said Pyongyang would be open to resuming talks with Washington.

US President Donald Trump has played down the tests when speaking about North Korea publicly. At one point he referred to them as "very standard."

Trump said that Kim had only agreed to stop testing long-range ballistic missiles -- the type that can reach the US mainland (without regard toward those launched towards our ally Japan) -- and nuclear weapons. https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/09/world/north-korea-projectiles-launch/index.html?utm_source=CNN+Five+Things&utm_campaign=18fa2d8d5f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_10_07_39&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6da287d761-18fa2d8d5f-104928233

[Bettie]

1. Will our allies

a. still be our allies by the end of the year and

b. ever be able to trust the US as a partner again?

[lark]

2. drumpfs' allies may still be backing him, but long term allies of the US desert it.

They don't want to back another racist, reactionary, fascist pro-PUtin government pretending to be the USA, but not. If we get him out of office and put him in jail, the world will trust us. Getting him out of office and taking most of his $$ would help as well. If he/PUtin/RNC & Israel steal the office again, I imagine their disgust will know no bounds and it will take forever for the USA to win back our allies, if it ever happens.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. What does Israel "steal the office again" mean?

TRUMP DECLARES HIMSELF “KING OF ISRAEL,” THE “SECOND COMING OF GOD”
The president is sick of “disloyal” American Jews, who apparently don’t know what’s good for them. But “Jewish people in Israel love him,” according to the crazed conspiracy theorist Trump quoted on Twitter. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/donald-trump-king-of-israel

[lark]

4. Israeli ambassador said on AM Joy that his country had offerred to help drumpf win the presidency.

I heard it on a Sat. am not long after the stolen election, sitting on the couch drinking my 2nd cup of coffee. Joy asked wouldn't that be illegal, and he laughed and said but it would never come to light. We have ways of doing this, which we outlined to the president, where we have an America Jew get $$ from Israel then transfer it all to drumpf out of his personal account (he said president trump but I would not use that term ever on my own) and it would be legal. He said, with a laugh, that they were turned down, but remained ready to help xxx any way they could.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. More "BREAKING NEWS"

What Israel wants caused the ambassador to say what Teflon Don wanted to hear:

NETANYAHU SOCHI TRIP TO FOCUS ON MILITARY COORDINATION, AFTER IRAN EXPOSÉ
Netanyahu said last week efforts were underway to arrange for another trilateral summit in Jerusalem of US, Russian and Israeli security officials to discuss the removal of Iranian forces from Syria.
BY HERB KEINON SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 15:13

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Sochi for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, the Prime Minister's Office announced on Tuesday.

The one-day trip comes just five days before the September 17 election, and according to what Netanyahu said at Sunday's cabinet meeting, it will focus on “the continuation of military coordination so as to prevent a collision given the upsurge in activity against us by Iran and its proxies, and our increased activity against them.”

[real Cannabis calm]

7. K&R! It looks like Trump is shopping for foreign nations, willing to hack US elections.

[soryang]

5. Abe has Trump wrapped around his little finger

and he's loving it. Both the US and Japan are putting the squeeze on South Korea to get rid of the democratic government there and put the right wing chin il pa quislings that they are accustomed to back in power.