Biden ready to give South Korea nukes.

Newsweek: Joe Biden to 'Enhance' North Korea Deterrence After Kim Jong Un Nuclear Vow.

Biden issued a joint statement with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol early on Saturday during his first visit to Asia since becoming president in January last year.

Yoon and Biden reiterated their commitment to the South Korea-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty, while Biden affirmed the U.S. deterrence commitment to its ally "using the full range of U.S. defense capabilities, including nuclear, conventional, and missile defense capabilities."

It's amazing the pretzel-like twists and turns that liberals contort themselves into when the opposite political party is in charge. Remember the John Kerry "we have to talk to our enemies," line of bullshit? It was fine when he met with Syria's Bashar al-Assad. But URRRMUHGAWD - when former President Donald Trump met with Kim Jong Un - - - oh, that's different.

Trump, Kim cross DMZ. Historic moment.

The Independent: Trump becomes first sitting US president to enter North Korea as he shakes hands with Kim Jong-un.

Donald Trump has become the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea, stepping over the demilitarised zone to shake hands with Kim Jong-un.
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Mr Trump stunned the world when he walked towards Mr Kim, shook hands and greeted him, and then stepped back across a line marking the North Korean border.
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The two leaders then walked back over into South Korea for a meeting. Originally supposed to be a brief exchange of pleasantries, the encounter turned into private talks stretching to about 50 minutes.

Kimmy accepts Trump's invite for DMZ meeting.

The National: North Korea's Kim Jong Un accepts Donald Trump's invitation for meeting at DMZ:

President Donald Trump will meet on Sunday with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at the demilitarised zone separating the North and South, a day after he issued an unprecedented invitation and expressed willingness to cross the border for what would be a history-making photo op.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced that Mr Kim accepted Mr Trump’s invitation to meet when the US president visits the heavily fortified site at the Korean border village of Panmunjom.

Mr Moon praised the two leaders for “being so brave” to hold the meeting and said: “I hope President Trump will go down in history as the president who achieves peace on Korean Peninsula.”

The Libs would be drooling like thirsty dogs or teething babies, falling all over themselves, fawning and praising Any DEM president doing what President Donald Trump is doing. Good. I'm glad the president is meeting with Kimmy, if for no other reason than it pisses of The Libs. But this is much more than that. This is a historic moment.

Baby Joe Biden hurt by NK's Kimmy comment that he's a, “fool of low IQ” and a “snob bereft of elementary quality as human being.”

Gropin' Joe, Sleepy Joe, Creepy Joe, Uncle Joe, Pervy Joe.

Add Baby Joe. If there's one thing we can agree on, it's that Baby Joe always takes the diplomatic route in his behavior.

Baby Joe Biden

Bloomaberg: Kim Jong Un refers to Joe Biden, " “fool of low IQ” and a “snob bereft of elementary quality as human being.”

I'd say Kimmy hit a Grand Slam, especially with the "snob" lob.

NY Post: President Trump agrees with Kimmy.

Baby Joe's feelings were hurt by Kimmy's comment and that Trump agreed. Oh, Dat's. So. Sad.

Big League Politics: But it's okay for Baby Joe, three months ago in Germany, to call America an embarrassment because of Trump.

It's normal behavior for U.S. Liberal politicians to defecate on The United States when they're on foreign soil. They can't help themselves.

Biden: "I was wondering where that thumb went. It was up my ass so long I thought I'd lost it forever."

And let's not forget Baby Joe's little on-off-on again-BFF love-affair with Vladimir Putin and his numerous policy contradictions flip-flops on Russia and Putin.

May 2019 - MSN: Biden declares, "dictators and tyrants like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin[.]".

November 2017 - Newsweek: Biden says he doesn't believe Putin; that Russia meddled in our presidential election.

April 2019 - Washington Free Beacon: Biden Defended Russia During 2012 Election, Denied It Was a ‘Major Adversary’.

March 2011 - The Pitt News: Biden, Putin; Best Friends Forever.

...according to CNN, Putin shocked Biden by opening up their meeting with a proposal that “his country and the United States abolish visas between them.”

Naturally, without thinking, Biden answered, “That it was a good idea,” and then — after realizing exactly what he was agreeing to — he quickly backtracked.

March 2011 - CS Monitor: Biden in Moscow, reaffirms US-Russia "Reset".

US Vice President Joe Biden, the man who coined the phrase "push the reset button" in reference to US-Russia relations, stopped by the Kremlin this week to check how the program was loading and propose some upgrades.

And, just last month, April 2019 - Conservative Review: Biden wanted to establish a ‘Biden-Putin commission’ to cozy up to the Kremlin.

Do you get the feeling that Biden will say and do anything, pander and contradict his own words, whenever it is politically expedient for him and his family? Like, if you met him and told him vanilla was your favorite flavor for a milkshake, he'd agree with you. If another person told him chocolate was their favorite flavor of milkshake, Biden would immediately concur. That kind of thing.

World News

SMH: The cough syrup codeine addiction.

Patients hooked on cough syrup and dependent on painkillers are turning up to GP clinics suffering from opioid withdrawals one year after the over-to-counter codeine ban was enforced.
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...some have likely stockpiled the products before the over-the-counter ban was enforced.

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NZ Herald: Emiliano Sala body identified.

An inquest into the tragic death of Emiliano Sala has revealed the football star died from "head and trunk" injuries when the plane he was travelling on crashed into the ocean.

Sala's body was recovered from the seabed wreckage last week after he disappeared on January 22.
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[He] was identified by his fingerprints.

Daily Mail: Full investigation into crashed flight may take one year.

Such a tragic ending for someone just starting life and doing what he loved.
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The Chosunilbo: North Korea's Kimmy Junior's Mercedes.

"Close-up pictures of the [car suggests] Kim may have opted for the exclusive and heavily-armored 'Guard' model," the website added.

And AM radio.

Kimmy Junior's Mercedes

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BBC: Russia to unplug from the internet?

Russia is considering whether to disconnect from the global internet briefly, as part of a test of its cyber-defences.

The test will mean data passing between Russian citizens and organisations stays inside the nation rather than being routed internationally.
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The test is expected to happen before 1 April[.]

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CGTN: Ultima Thule is flat, like a pancake. Previously likened to resembling a snowman...

...an object nicknamed "Ultima Thule" in the Kuiper Belt, to be flat rather than spherical, according to the latest images sent back to Earth.
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Previously scientists called Ultima Thule "snowman" as the first close-up images revealed its two distinct and spherical segments.

 Uma Thurman  Ultima Thule

Clarksville Online: More on Uma Thurman Ultima Thule.
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KMSP Fox 9: You're stuck in Cancun because of a flight delay...heading back to Minnesota.

And the conditions in Cancun are unpleasant; acknowledged. Still, you're in Cancun...heading back to...Minnesota. I'm not sure I see a problem here...
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9 News: Ukraine's An-225, biggest aircraft sits unfinished.

Towering over everything is the massive fuselage of the unfinished An-225. It's a beast of a thing. If ever completed, it will have a length of 84 metres - a whole nine metres longer than the world's largest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380 superjumbo.

 The An-225, aka Mriya, (Ukranian for dream) has the capacity

 to carry other aircrafts inside or on top of it as it flies. Image: AAP

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The Telegraph: Six out of ten Yellow Vests believe Princess Diana was murdered.

The poll also reveals that almost a quarter of “gilets jaunes” are convinced that a terror attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg was a diversionary tact by the government to spoil their latest round of protests.

Breitbart: 150 Yellow Vests have their phones tapped, says French Media.

Le Point claims that intelligence services are tracking 50 activists in Paris and 100 in the rest of the country[.]
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The claim of government spying also follows an increased level of violence by police toward protestors[sic][.]

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NZ Herald: Inside a L.A. legal weed shop.

"It's like an 'Apple store' for weed."

World News

Barnes_Law: Attorney will represent Covington Catholic High for free.

Good for him!
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Saipan Tribune: Tourists are pooping all over.

Tourists allegedly continue to leave their fecal remnants near popular tourist sites up north, according to the Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality.
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...one of the reasons that tourists continue to defecate up north is because of the lack of comfort rooms in the area.

Dear Saipan, you are Saipan. Have you ever heard of these things?

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Yonhap News: Kimmy Junior looks forward to meeting Trump.

"Kim Jong-un said that we will believe in the positive way of thinking of President Trump, wait with patience and in good faith and, together with the U.S., advance step by step toward the goal to be reached by the two countries of the DPRK and the U.S.[.]"

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Argentina News Net: Search for missing plane resumes.

Police on the British island of Guernsey resumed the search on Wednesday for a missing plane carrying Premier League player Emiliano Sala, who is presumed dead after debris was found in the water.

Argentina News Net:  Sala: "Dad, "I'm so scared."

"I'm on a plane that looks like it's going to fall apart, and I'm leaving for Cardiff," Sala said in a WhatsApp audio message carried by Argentine media.

"If in an hour and a half you have no news from me, I don't know if they will send people to look for me, because they will not find me, you know. Dad, I'm so scared," [said Emiliano].

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Warsaw Business Journal: Taxi driver's protest Uber, Lyft; block streets in Barcelona.

The protest follows new regulations for online ride-hailing services adopted by the Catalan government on Friday.

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San Mateo County Journal: 25-cent fee approved on disposable cups by Berkeley.

Berkeley's City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the fee on single-use cups, which will take effect January 2020. [Patrons of restaurants and coffee shops in Berkeley, California, who don't bring a reusable cup for their beverage will have to pay a 25-cent fee for a disposable cup].

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Beatrice Daily Sun: Increasing taxes on higher incomes opposed by legislature.

Sen. Tony Vargas of Omaha, sponsor of the bill (LB50), said the measure is needed not only to establish more tax fairness, but also to replenish a state revenue stream that is needed to fund essential state programs and services.
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The bill would adversely impact small businesses, LIBA President Coby Mach said, warning that people have "a broad choice as to where to live and work" and suggesting that higher taxes might prompt higher-income Nebraskans to move out of the state.

You already know his party affiliation, but if you need to see it...
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Grand Forks Herld: Grizzlies football player found dead.

Andrew Harris, a football player at Montana, was found dead in his home Tuesday. He was 22.

His death was being investigated as a suicide, Sgt. Travis Welch of the Missoula Police confirmed to the Montana Standard.

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And in the "This Just Can't Be a Coincidence" Department; Switzerland-based news organization The Local touts survey results naming Switzerland as the "Best Country in The World".

For the third year running, Switzerland has come out top in the annual Best Countries rankings which looks at people's perceptions of 80 countries around the world.

It's time the other 79 countries stop trying. Give up. Clearly, none of us will beat Switzerland.

Newspapers under Cyberattack

No lulls as we close-out the last few days of 2018.

ABC 7, Chicago: Cyberattack from outside U.S. hit major newspapers.

Tribune Publishing -- which owns the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers impacted -- reported the attack to the FBI on Friday, the Chicago Tribune reported Saturday.

Global News: Cyberattack responsible for delays in newspaper distribution.

The cyberattack appeared to originate outside the United States, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing a source with knowledge of the situation.
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“There is no evidence that customer credit card information or personally identifiable information has been compromised,” [said Tribune Publishing spokeswoman Marisa Kollias, explaining] the virus hurt back-office systems used to publish and produce “newspapers across our properties.”

SBS News: Sophisticated cyberattack hits U.S. newspapers.

The computer problem shut down a number of crucial software systems that store news stories, photographs and administrative information, and made it difficult to create the plates used to print the papers at The Times' downtown plant.

This attack on U.S. newspapers must be the work of Trump and Russia/Putin or Trump and North Korea/Kimmy Junior. Good for him/them.

World News Links

Jet Airways loses cabin pressure, flight of horror. Hindustan Times:

...the cabin crew forgot to put on a key switch that maintains cabin pressure. Hathi and other passengers reported screams and cries of fear as the aircraft climbed, with the emergency oxygen masks eventually coming down.

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Kimmy Junior wants to meet with Trump again.  New Zealand Star:

A summary released by the Pyongyang Press Corps noted that Kim Jong Un wants the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to visit Pyongyang to hurry the denuclearization process, as part of which North Korea aims to set up another summit with Trump "as soon as possible."

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First Post: Rite Aid shooter had no one targeted.

"She didn't have a particular target. She was just shooting. She didn't aim. She just shot,"  [said Krystal Watson].

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Winemaker jailed; didn't tell cops about friend's cannabis crop. SMH:

Griffith winemaker Marcello Casella has been jailed for at least six months for failing to tell police about a large cannabis crop grown by a long-time friend.

Casella, 58, pleaded guilty in June to concealing a serious indictable offence after he failed to tell police about the crop of 2750 cannabis plants grown on a farm at Crowther in south-western NSW in late 2013 and early 2014.

He didn't rat on his friend. It's nice to know that honor among...lawbreakers...is still sometimes upheld. :)
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Mummified penguin chicks discovered in Antarctica. Australian Broadcast Corp: 

Scientists said the discovery holds clues to two massive weather-related calamities that wiped out large numbers of birds, one about 200 years ago and one around 750 years ago.

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i News:  Passing Heavy Metal and Mosh-pit etiquette on to the next generation.

Rules include immediately picking up people who had fallen over at a gig and' anyone who is hurt being taken to the bar by the person responsible.

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Ireland vexes the UK and EU in Brexit. Deutsche Welle:

...it appeared that the UK and the EU were no closer to solving the most intractable issues at hand: how to avoid imposing a harder border on the island of Ireland and how to handle future trade.

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Hmmmmmm...Iran removes import limit on gold and foreign currencies. Mehr News:

The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has eased currency rules and ordered the customs to allow merchants to bring foreign currency banknotes or gold into the country in a bid to curb further depreciation of the rial.

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The rise of the Spying Transit Police. Blacklisted News: 

Today's Public Transit Police Departments offer a frightening glimpse into the future of commuter surveillance.

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France24: Brazil's eccentric presidential candidate Cabo Daciolo says God wants him to win.

Cabo Daciolo, who calls himself a messenger from heaven, says he wants to expel Satan from Congress[.]

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The No Chill: Kanye West is a clone.

Current Kanye is an Illuminati Clone

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Burger King vs a colonial burial ground.  The Day: 

About 40 opponents of a proposed Burger King gathered Thursday evening in the historic colonial burying ground to hear historic preservation advocates express concerns that the project could impact the cemetery and that early burials could exist on the other side of the 19th century stone wall that divides the properties.

Obligatory Post on Trump/Jong Un Singapore Summit

Good.

We'll see what happens.

If a Democrat president was doing this, the Libs and Media would be falling and fawning all over themselves and their (political) party in self-adoration.

Kim Jong Un brings his own toilet to Singapore

Kim Jong Un brings his own toilet to Singapore:  FOX News:

“Rather than using a public restroom, the leader of North Korea has a personal toilet that follows him around when he travels,” [said Lee Yun-keol, a North Korean defector who was previously a North Korean Guard Command unit.]  “The leader’s excretions contain information about his health status so they can’t be left behind.”

This is not the first time he has done this. CBS News:

The restrooms are not only in Kim Jong Un's personal train but whatever small or midsize cars he is traveling with and even in special vehicles that are designed for mountainous terrain or snow," a source in South Pyongan Province familiar with Kim's Escort Command told the DailyNK in 2015. "There are multiple vehicles within the convoy so that people cannot tell which one he is in, and there is a separate car that acts as his restroom."

Dennis Rodman; The mediator for North Korea?

Can former NBA great Dennis Rodman  be the answer in reducing tensions between the U.S. and North Korean Dictator Kimmy?

Well...maybe. Stranger things have happened.

From The Star Telegram:

[Rodman] appeared on “Good Morning Britain” via satellite from Los Angeles on Wednesday and was asked about his relationship with Kim and the multiple trips to North Korea.

The majority of the conversation with hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid centered on their activities, such as singing karaoke, riding horses and just sharing laughs without discussing politics.

I must interrupt this post to note that, IMO, Piers Morgan is a total, unadulterated, complete piece of used and discarded butt-wipe.

Piers Morgan: News fabricator.

Why is Morgan used and discarded butt-wipe? Because, as editor of the Daily Mirror, he approved of, and published, a phony picture on the front page of the Daily Mirror in 2004. BBC:

Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has been sacked after the newspaper conceded photos of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi were fake. 

This is the front page Morgan falsified:

Fake news; approved by Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan.

Ponder the motives behind an EDITOR of a MAJOR NEWSPAPER in approving FAKE NEWS.

Morgan also mocked President George W. Bush for falling off a Segway, and later, Pierszzzzzzz-zah fell to the pavement from his Segway ride.

Watch Morgan, two-hundreds pounds-of-shit-in-a-five-pound-bag, fall off his Segway...it's so precious:

I never get tired of watching that clip.

Pierszzzzzzz-zah broke three ribs from his fall; strangely - prior to that - he called riding a Segway "idiot-proof."

Welcome to The Idiots Hall of Fame, Pierszzzzzzzzzz-zah, where you are bestowed Chairman of the Board, CEO, CFO, COO, CIO and President of The Worldly Idiots Clubs.

I'm not a big Hugh Grant fan, but just who the hell is Pierszzzzzzzzz-zah to call Grant a "tedious, little man." And as only a selfish, insecure two-year old would act, Pierszzzzzzzzz-zah banned Grant from appearing on his program. Pierszzzzzzz-zah - a fat, pie-faced, pseudo-intellectual gnome - is simply jealous of Grant, a handsome guy.

You may be asking, "where does a fired newspaper editor who engaged and fostered FAKE NEWS, get a job?"  Why, CNN, of course.

And it's clear that "Good Morning Britain"  has no journalistic code of ethics that applies to whom they hire. 

Back to Dennis Rodman. From MSN:

Rodman, 56, has made several trips to North Korea after developing a friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over their shared love of basketball. Kim is reportedly a big fan of the 90s Chicago Bulls. Rodman's last visit came in June.

As long as President Donald Trump has said, regarding North Korea, "all options are on the table," who knows if Rodman can make a difference? Maybe he can. We don't know. I don't see how Dennis can make things worse. Let's give him a chance.

Maybe Kimmy wants is his own NBA franchise?

Let Dennis do his thing. If what he does, in any way, helps bring about some type of détente between the U.S. and NK, it doesn't matter who or how we get there - only that we get there.

World News Links - September 4, 2017

The Telegraph: How other countries reported on Kimmy's nuclear missile test.

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Live Mint: China to Trump: "Stop threatening North Korea on trade."

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The Guardian: Annihilation of North Korea brings more problems than it solves.

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Bloomberg: North Korea's oil lifeline in the bulls-eye for destruction. 

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The Outline: Blame Imperialist America and Trump...for Everything.

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Raw Story: 'Morning Joe' - Supporters of Trump fed up with his antics.

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The Guardian: Another stabbing in London.

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YLE: Human chain prevents deportation of Afghan family.

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Times of Israel: French consulate receives envelope with mystery substance.

Several people near the consulate complained of a burning sensation in their eyes, according to reports.

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Daily Mail: A camera that sees through the body.
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YouGov: Majority of French approve of UK exiting the EU.
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BBC: Car crashes into Long Island laundromat.
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BBC: Do you call a plumber or animal control?  Finding a python...in your toilet.

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The Independent: Italy's cocaine king arrested after 23 years on the lam.

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The Independent: The predicted path...so far...of Hurricane Irma.

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Business Insider: A sauna made from snow.

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Energy Voice: Exxon Texas refineries restarting.

North Korea fires missile over Japan

From The Sydney Morning Herald:

North Korea fired a missile early on Tuesday from near Pyongyang that flew over northern Japan, the South Korean and Japanese governments said.

Public broadcaster NHK reported that the missile broke into three pieces and fell into the waters off Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands.

More here at Radio Australia.

And here at the BBC.

So...what's the deal with Kimmy? Childish Tyrant? Death Wish? Not enough bran?

Kimmy II