North Korea says U.S. bomber flights push peninsula to brink of nuclear war

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

WORLD NEWS | Tue May 2, 2017 | 9:47am EDT

North Korea says U.S. bomber flights push peninsula to brink of nuclear war

By Ju-min Park and Ben Blanchard | SEOUL/BEIJING

North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of pushing the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war after a pair of strategic U.S. bombers flew training drills with the South Korean and Japanese air forces in another show of strength.

The two supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers were deployed amid rising tensions over North Korea's pursuit of its nuclear and missile programmes in defiance of U.N. sanctions and pressure from the United States.

The flight of the two bombers on Monday came as U.S. President Donald Trump said he would be "honoured" to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the right circumstances, and as his CIA director landed in South Korea for talks.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-idUSKBN17W04T

[HoneyBadger]

1. Kim Jong Un forgets to mention China

Going to be pretty chilly in 6 months........

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2017/05/02/2017050201175.html

China is considering at least a six-month halt in supplying oil to North Korea if Pyongyang conducts another nuclear test, the South China Morning Post reported Sunday quoting experts.
"Instead of an oil embargo of just one or two months, which is unlikely to have a major impact on North Korea's strategic oil reserves, we are talking about a halt in Chinese crude oil supplies for at least six months. That would be a real nightmare" for leader Kim Jong-un, the daily quoted Sun Xingjie, a North Korea specialist from Jilin University, as saying.
"China would be taking sanctions actions on their own" if Pyongyang went ahead with another nuclear test, Sun added.
China's state-run Global Times in an editorial last week also warned that North Korea would face tougher sanctions, including a halt in oil supply.

[Voltaire2]

2. If this regime is convinced it is about to be attacked

it's quite likely that it will wipe out Seoul first.