A nuclear power of modest means directly threatened the United States.
Kim Jung Un, ruler of North Korea stated that pursuit of an extended embargo of North Korea would result in a nuclear attack on the United States. The embargo was enacted.
This day has long been discussed by military strategists. This day has arrived.
I have no idea of the ability of Kim Jung Un’s military to deliver a nuclear weapon to the San Francisco Bay. Nor do I have knowledge of America’s ballistic defense capabilities.
I do know that the actions of one tyrannical leader and his coterie of insiders has put the entire population of North Korea in the nuclear retaliatory cross-hairs of the American military with North Korea at risk of disappearing from this earth in a one day event.
I also know that, because of prevailing winds that the Japanese people are now at risk of exposure to wind born radiation. I will soon be in Tokyo for a month.
This is no longer an hypothetical event. It happened. One of the immediate follow-up events of a North Korean launched missile directed at the United States will be the simultaneous eradication of the ancient Persian people.
The Iranian leaders have been making threats against Israel for decades. The language has never been clearly: ‘we will destroy Israel in XXX circumstances.’ I know Israel will not wait for the right wording once a rogue nuclear state has used nuclear arms in an attack.
The time has arrived when our world has changed.