Article snippet: Posted at 9:30 pm on August 8, 2017 by streiff As has been reported, North Korea’s Lena-Dunham-esque ruler, Kim John Un, has threatened to strike one of the 57 states, Guam, with a nuclear weapon. Guam is no stranger to danger. Once, you will recall, it was in danger of capsizing: True, Guam contains some US military facilities, primarily Andersen Air Force Base and Naval Base Guam, but nuking Guam, given the international reaction, seems a lot like going for the cuticles of your opponent in parking lot brawl outside a Columbus, GA, strip club…or so I would imagine. So why did he do it? Often, in these cases, it is easier to identify what he didn’t do. A. Unless Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is now endemic (it is associated with cannibalism) in North Korea, we can rule out this as an actual war plan. It would suck to be be on Guam if Kim popped a nuke, no doubt about that, but even if the nuke caused Guam to tip over, the effect on a war in Korea would be negligible. B. It is not a threat…unless you live on Guam. I’d be willing to bet that a vast majority of Americans are unaware of our relationship to Guam. An actual threat from North Korea sounds more like: A threat would be to vaporize Washington, DC or New York City. To threaten the vaporizing of Guam isn’t going to cause panic much of anywhere. One has to assume the North Koreans know that. If it isn’t a war plan and it isn’t a threat what is it? The Russians insisted that the missile test the US, Japan, an... Link to the full article to read more