NORTH KOREA READIES MISSLE LAUNCH AS POSSIBLE SECRET TRANSMISSIONS ARE DETECTED IN THE US

First off I would like to clarify something I wrote yesterday as wrong. I was in a hurry to go see the new Evil Dead movie, which as remakes go was pretty good, and didn't have time to research some things as best as I would have liked to. The North Koreans are missing two subs that have gone dark, Sang-O class, which have a maximum range of 1500 hundred miles meaning they have no way of reaching the west coast let alone DC. My bad. They also don't have surface to air missile capacity. They are capable of mine laying. They could be lying at the bottom of the ocean full of water as well. For now, they are a moot point as they have little capacity for any sort of mass damage, short of attacking other shipping vessels, which would be suicide against a destroyer or the like. The North Koreans do have 22 Romeo class subs that could reach the West Coast and use surface to air missiles that could contain chemical, biological or nuclear materials. No reports have been made of any of them unaccounted for as of this writing.

Today is the so-called deadline however for embassies to evacuate the North and for tourists to leave the South. A missile is ready to launch and many expect it to be in the air soon, most likely the 15th, which is the birthday of founder Kim Il Sun and usually marked by a huge military show and procession. Last year they had a parade of goose stepping morons, starving people in hysterics over the "holiday," and a three stage missile that broke up and fell into the ocean. Good times.

Many say this is just the North Koreans doing their usual "puff their chest and blow" routine that has gotten so old. If this is their strategy, I fail to see it working anymore. Even the Chinese have gotten tired of this semi annual temper tantrum which the North sees as their own way to win back concessions they have lost due to this posturing. The fact that countries like Burma have gone the opposite route, strengthening Western ties while reducing the military rule at home, has proven to be far more successful. North Korea could learn a thing or two from them. If the North wants to join us at the big boys table, it is going to have stop behaving like a belligerent two year old cranky from not having his nap.

A radio operator in the Midwest has reported intercepting a coded message run on the same frequency as "Voice of Korea," which contained a long digital transmission. The message has been theorized that it could be one made for the two missing subs. While there is no way that these subs could reach the mainland, they are equipped to carry up to 30 commandos who could be ready to strike South Korea, Japan or even Guam. Oddly, the message was in Spanish as well which could mean lots of things. The message could be innocuous and have nothing to do with North Korea at all. Or it could be the North trying to be as discreet as possible. A message in Korean would be far more suspicious than a totally different one. For now, there is no evidence this transmission is from North Korea and should be treated as such.

For now, we have to hope that North Korea is following the same pattern they have been doing for decades. The Wild Card is Kim Jung Un whom we know next to nothing about. As for some insane reason we have no eyes inside the region, we have been relying on guesswork for the past few decades with less than stellar results. Experts were stunned when North Korea detonated a nuclear bomb in 2009 which they said was still years away. Oops. We have little knowledge of armaments, personnel or even who is really in charge over there, with some reports saying Un's Aunt is the real power behind the throne. We still have to accept the fact that Un may be in control and be severely unbalanced, perhaps even psychopathic. The next few weeks should be very interesting.