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Why We Should Fear a North Korean Nuclear Attack, Explained
As tensions continue to rise between Pyongyang and Washington, D.C., over North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear testing, arms-control experts are engaging in very sobering debates concerning America’s capacity to defend itself against full-scale nuclear attack. Verdict: It can’t. For example, the United States’ Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system, or GMD, which is designed to intercept intercontinental…
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Trump Adds North Korea to His Infamous Travel Ban: Power Move or More Child’s Play From the Idiot in Chief?
We all laughed over the weekend when, in response to Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry saying that he didn’t want to go to the White House, Donald Trump responded with something akin to, “Yeah! Well, I disinvite you anyway!” It was yet another juvenile moment in a long line of juvenile moments this…
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An Annotated Translation of the Greatest Clapback of All Time
The text of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s response to Donald Trump’s United Nations speech will go down as one of the pettiest incidents in the annals of international shade throwing. To highlight the cataclysmic clapback of this piece of art, we assembled a group of world-renowned pettyologists from Atlanta; Compton, Calif.; and Brooklyn,…
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5 Times Donald Trump Proved to Be a Dotard
There are very few times that I’ve ever found myself agreeing with the rhetoric of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. But Kim’s clapback after President Nooshi von BackWash screamed on him on a world stage (talking shit about a world leader during the United Nations General Assembly is the political equivalent of screaming on…
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Kim Jong Un on Trump’s UN Speech: ‘He Will Face Results Beyond His Expectation’
Kim Jong Un has a few words for Donald Trump in the wake of the unpresident’s recent United Nations speech. On Tuesday, Trump stated that the U.S. would “totally destroy North Korea” and stated that Kim Jong Un could not survive an American attack. He finished his rambling by saying, “Rocket Man is on a…
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Some of Us Are Not Convinced Y’all’s President Won’t Start a Nuclear War
Let select members of the Tropicana Jong-il administration tell it, we needn’t worry about the threat of looming nuclear war. During an appearance on ABC’s This Week, national security adviser H.R. McMaster was asked whether or not the United States was any closer to war with North Korea than it had been in recent memory.…