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frozenpissglove Mar 29, 2026 +1018

Haven’t they been making this claim for years?

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Dull-Rutabaga8689 Mar 29, 2026 +507

Its already well known they have ballistic missiles that can hit US west coast.

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Pale_Change_666 Mar 29, 2026 +192

Yup Hwasong-19 has a range of 15,000km

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BoBSMITHtheBR Mar 29, 2026 +185

If it can hit the west coast it’s not much more to hit the east coast. It doesn’t have to traverse the length of the US from west to east because it’s closer to fire north and travel across the arctic and then just travel south.

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Food_Goblin Mar 30, 2026 +7

Don't give them any ideas! The last thing I need is one landing in Canada on the way...

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SsurebreC Mar 29, 2026 +53

So they claim but there's only been one test, in 2024, which flew for a thousand kilometers.

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TachiH Mar 29, 2026 +155

You don't fire the distance for tests. Even the US doesn't. You just fire it higher and do the maths to work out what max range is. To test max range you would be flying over countries you don't want to mistake the test for the end of the world.

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Briguy_fieri Mar 30, 2026 +89

This comment only drives home there's people so much smarter than me. Because I would absolutely have just run the full distance test

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Dull-Rutabaga8689 Mar 30, 2026 +59

Test firing a missile over enemy territory is a great way to start a war. The safe way to test a ballistic missile is shooting it high and/or into the pacific ocean. When you get sophisticated enough, you frame it as a scientific or humanitarian effort , placing people on the moon or into orbit. When I reality, its a demonstration of your capability to place a missile anywhere on earth.

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orangeyougladiator Mar 30, 2026 +1

I mean as long as you make everyone aware missile tests over enemy territory are fine and happens much more often than you think

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LickNipMcSkip Mar 30, 2026 +19

To be clear, countries *do* do the distance test, including North Korea, just not for ICBMs. One of the things that they potentially gain from their friendship with Russia is access to a missile range to actually put theory into practice with their IRBMs/MRBMs that the DPRK is just too thin for. That way, they aren't just firing the same short range missiles at the same island or the Sea of Japan every few months. Also, now they just shoot a bunch of their shorter range stuff at Ukrainians instead. Less great for the ROK, that their Northern neighbors are getting real life experience on the systems pointed South

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Newyew22 Mar 30, 2026 +7

Same, but in our defense, it literally is rocket science.

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racso1518 Mar 30, 2026 +2

If you did that you would have 50 US nukes obliterating the whole nation within 10 minutes

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Hodr Mar 30, 2026 +7

I'm no geography scientist but I can look at a globe. Since they already shoot over South Korea regularly, after that there's open ocean for 5000km until Papua New Guinea. If they can turn it even just a couple of degrees there's open ocean all the way to the south pole. Seems like plenty of room to do a real test/demonstration.

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Pale_Change_666 Mar 29, 2026 +8

The test had 1000 km of range, and 7700km of altitude or apolgee( how far it traveled vertically).

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Stunning_Mast2001 Mar 30, 2026 +8

I think we’re seeing in Iran, militaries tends to wildly overstate their capabilities

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Atmacrush Mar 30, 2026 +11

Well, Iran has managed to reach Diego Garcia air base with two ballistic missiles, which is 4,000km away from Iran. While one was shot down and the other went dud, the attacks traveled 4,000km. Iran has demonstrated that they can reach the whole Europe. It may not be accurate, but raining a bunch of these can do massive AoE damage to a country.

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Woozah77 Mar 30, 2026 +13

Noooo you didn't just use AoE in a sentence about real life.

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More_Bigger Mar 30, 2026 +7

They should hit my house then before I gotta go to work tomorrow

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ghosttrainhobo Mar 30, 2026 +35

If NK can put a satellite into orbit, then they can out a warhead on that rocket and have it hit America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malligyong-1

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orangeyougladiator Mar 30, 2026 +5

Not quite. It’s not a simple ballistic that just falls to the ground, it has to escape orbit at the right position at 2500mph+ and then readjust for its target while withstanding the heat

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DragonWhsiperer Mar 30, 2026 +1

An ICBM, a "ballistic" missile is only powered in the Boost phase. The midphase and re-entry are are unpowered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_missile

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tigersharkwushen_ Mar 30, 2026 +4

You don't need to readjust. That's the main feature of ballistic missiles.

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[deleted] Mar 30, 2026 +2

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PleaseHelpFlorida Mar 30, 2026 +13

And yet we haven't preemptively attacked them.

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Silly_Regular_3286 Mar 30, 2026 +1

No oil, sorry, I mean no people to liberate from a tyrannical regime /s

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Happy-Gnome Mar 30, 2026 +6

And it’ll be true one day

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ZubatCountry Mar 30, 2026 +3

It's literally been a sign of spring for decades

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S3HN5UCHT Mar 30, 2026 +2

I’d reckon the Russians are giving them tech transfers

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JamesTheJerk Mar 30, 2026 +1

But this time, it's different.

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Joebebs Mar 30, 2026 +1

I remembered hearing about it since I was in highschool. That was like over 12 years ago (damn)

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WorstFkGamer Mar 30, 2026 +1

They're starving for attention now since we no longer care about them.

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BlueAcre0 Mar 30, 2026 +1

Though now they have Russia to help them.

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EdSheeeeran Mar 29, 2026 +339

Dear NK, we kinda have other things to deal with at the moment. Can we postpone these threats for another time?

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mrhorse21 Mar 29, 2026 +108

Kim getting jealous that Trump gets to play with his toys

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Aggressive_Noise6426 Mar 30, 2026 +13

Naw Kim is just giving tutorials to his daughter is all. Some wholesome bonding.

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Astro51450 Mar 29, 2026 +22

After Cuba?

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No_Advertising_1237 Mar 30, 2026 +10

Cuba > Greenland > Mexico > Canada…only then he may have time for North Korea

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wtfElvis Mar 30, 2026 +4

we are at war with Iran at the moment”thought” of them attacking us with weapons that do not have that capability. Meanwhile NK speedrunning the very thing we are attacking Iran for.

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solo_leo_el_titulo Mar 30, 2026 +4

Thankfully for the world, time is something he doesn’t have much of.

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BrianWulfric Mar 30, 2026 +13

They should conduct tests for food that can hit its own citizens.

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Desperate-Custard355 Mar 30, 2026 +4

the d&ck measuring competition begins .... sigh ....

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Stonewolf87 Mar 30, 2026 +3

Begins?

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thedaveness Mar 30, 2026 +29

Dear NK… just f****** target the ~~White House~~ Marlago when the orange d*** is proudly standing there and end this madness. Give me my ban. f****** tired of this shit.

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DoublePostedBroski Mar 30, 2026 +3

They do this every time they need something. Their crop yield mustn’t be doing that great.

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Gunsensual Mar 30, 2026 +2

The US just took THAAD out of SK. This is perfect timing.

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MezzoSoaprano Mar 30, 2026 +1

Nah. It's this time of the year again. The propaganda must flow.

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purpleplez Mar 29, 2026 +109

Awe, he’s feeling left out.

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Available_Finish4387 Mar 29, 2026 +66

Do I have to go to Work tomorrow?

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Desperate-Custard355 Mar 30, 2026 +28

they'll make us work in the ruins of humanity at this rate

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torev Mar 30, 2026 +6

Invasion is next weekend. 1 more week.

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FixFun1959 Mar 30, 2026 +1

I just want the same alert the people of Hawaii got so I have just enough time to smoke a J and sit back and let it happen.

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hawkseye17 Mar 29, 2026 +85

Kim Jong Un upset that he's no longer the center of attention

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IntelArtiGen Mar 30, 2026 +17

Do north koreans even know there is a war in Iran?

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hawkseye17 Mar 30, 2026 +19

Probably, North Korea is allied with Iran so they could probably use this war as a way of going "look how bad the US is"

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Important_Put_3331 Mar 30, 2026 +7

Which wouldn't be all that false now would it...

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Destronoma Mar 30, 2026 +23

What an absolutely tiring time to be alive. I hate this fuckass reality we live in.

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YupThatsMeBuddy Mar 29, 2026 +95

North Korea will never attack the US.

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superduperlongdong Mar 29, 2026 +73

But they might target tel aviv! we should send the marines and invade!

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Candid-Elk6135 Mar 29, 2026 -2

Not the worst outcome

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agarwaen117 Mar 29, 2026 +7

It would certainly go better than Iran will.

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orangeyougladiator Mar 30, 2026 +7

No it wouldn’t, because they have nuclear weapons they’ll drop on the South instantly

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superduperlongdong Mar 29, 2026 +4

I don’t think he means the invasion 😆

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nekonight Mar 29, 2026 +41

Japan will never attack the US was a lot of the mainstream thinking before December 1941 too. Enough so that when the US diplomats sent a message to Washington that an attack is likely imminent it was ignored. The point is never say it wouldn't happen.

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External-Plastic-154 Mar 29, 2026 +12

In fact, North Korea and the United States aren’t just simple enemies. If anything, the more North Korea maintains that kind of tension, the more it can work in the United States’ favor.

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Cr4shK00l Mar 30, 2026 +5

That's an outrageous statement to make without even bothering to explain shit

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External-Plastic-154 Mar 30, 2026 +2

Considering North Korea’s poor military capability and weak economy, if it didn’t even have nuclear weapons, the likelihood of it becoming a satellite state of China would have been quite high.

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ConsiderationSea1347 Mar 29, 2026 +12

Japan had a comparable military to the United States in the 1940s.

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nekonight Mar 30, 2026 +11

Not really. US navy was significantly larger and the shipbuilding was already running high due to the war in europe which is why the pearl harbour attack was planned in the first place. The US army was smaller than Japanese army and but had better adapted to new tech that emerged in the european front and was already adopting changes that would allow the US to mobilize quickly. Thats why Yamamoto was so against the attack because it was doomed if it didnt knocked out the US navy immediately.

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ConsiderationSea1347 Mar 30, 2026 +3

Interesting. I was always taught Yamamoto was referring to the industrial power of the US allowing it to prop up and sustain a war engine that would devastate Japan even if Pearl Harbor was successful. Which is also what most of “the internet” says.

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hjadams123 Mar 29, 2026 +6

Yeah, Japan did not know we were going to develop a nuclear bomb and then actually use it once it was ready. It's a different ballgame today, there are no winners in a nuclear strike. Just a lot of dead people on both sides.

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SirBulbasaur13 Mar 30, 2026 +10

And even without the bomb, Japan *knew* the couldn’t win. Their entire plan was to deal a huge blow to the US early, dig in on their conquered territory and hope the attrition from the lost Americans trying the reclaim that territory pushed the American public to demand the war stops. There was no “beating” the US in a conventional sense, no Axis power had even the slightest plan or intention of invading.

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Ecthelion30 Mar 30, 2026 +2

They wont attack by themselves if they do it. If Russia decides to do it they will attack as well.

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Nelrith Mar 30, 2026 +1

I agreed, once. It doesn’t seem too far-fetched anymore.

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LucentG Mar 30, 2026 +39

Here's my wild theory: I really think North Korea's only job is to threaten the US, secretly at the behest of China. This is China's way of just making the US paranoid and continue to invest in its military while China invests in its industry & people.

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stealyourideas Mar 30, 2026 +8

Or at the behest of Russia

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thortgot Mar 30, 2026 +1

China is scaling up for a Tiawan invasion. They invest in quite a lot of things.

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Kc4shore65 Mar 30, 2026 +7

Lil Kim is sitting there watching grampa Donnie going full psycho with our military, bombs and nuclear threats and felt lonely

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IceMysterious3056 Mar 30, 2026 +6

craving for attention, I see

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Cheesybunny Mar 30, 2026 +11

Just aim it at me. I'm so exhausted of the constant... Everything

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Fire_Z1 Mar 30, 2026 +5

Trump will lift sanctions on North Korea if this is true

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dunnkw Mar 30, 2026 +5

I think now would be a foolish time to poke the insecure bear with the red button on his desk.

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InTooManyWays Mar 30, 2026 +5

No need, we are destroying ourselves. Just give it a bit more time

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Trhol Mar 30, 2026 +8

Unless it can hit Israel no one in our government cares.

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Brandoe Mar 30, 2026 +4

They were feeling left out.

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HotHits630 Mar 30, 2026 +3

Just aim for Florida.

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FuckDeanSpanos Mar 30, 2026 +4

Well I would be grateful if they launched it right at my face

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seKer82 Mar 29, 2026 +13

They must need some more humanitarian aid.

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Krond Mar 30, 2026 +6

That's been the default case since the 50s.

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Evening-Row9022 Mar 30, 2026 +3

house of dynamite

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ViagraPoweredRabbit Mar 30, 2026 +3

Quiet NK. We got more pressing issues at hand

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Skurnaboo Mar 30, 2026 +3

it can target it, but it'd probably land in the middle of the pacific ocean.

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GoblixTheYordle Mar 30, 2026 +3

And short sighted fools wanted Iran to have this option.

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PRSHZ Mar 30, 2026 +8

I am horrendous in the mathematics department, but as far as I’m concerned, wouldn’t a missile that can travel such a distance, require a very large tank to carry all that fuel thus making it slower and easier to target by u.s. air defense systems long before they even arrive? Also wouldn’t such a propulsion system make it stick out like a nail to satellite systems that have thermal imaging?

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Skunkies Mar 30, 2026 +11

they typically go into space and then free fall with adjustment.

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Kind_Conclusion1911 Mar 30, 2026 +10

Only in boost phase. Once it reaches cruise speed the engine shuts off and it practically goes dark. We can measure time to impact based on assumed trajectory but once the rocket exhaust cuts it’s a fuckin ghost.

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Reversi8 Mar 30, 2026 +1

It’s basically just a rocket going to space, but instead of having enough energy to get a full orbit, it just burns enough to get to the target, so it drops the rockets early on and you just have the reentry vehicle flying through space and eventually reentering. Once it’s in space it’s hard to hit because it’s 100s of kilometers high, and once it reenters it’s basically impossible because it’s moving so fast. Modern MIRVs will also split the warheads while it’s moving so they can hit different targets and also deploy decoy warheads.

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Lopsided-Rough-1562 Mar 30, 2026 +2

I guess he must have won his war over Poseidon since he's stopped attacking the ocean

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sinistag Mar 30, 2026 +2

I’m so glad they don’t have oil.

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Frightsauce77 Mar 30, 2026 +4

Ole fat f*** doesn’t want the world to forget about him lol

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rewardingsnark Mar 30, 2026 +3

US is to busy attacking the country that did not have this, in order to distract and steal money. Plus the US is just as evil and NK and doesn't care what it does.

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Brobeast Mar 30, 2026 +2

Is he stupid?

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joker_toker28 Mar 30, 2026 +2

If past recent event have shown me is that nothing is impossible. Especially our national security being run by idiots.......

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Averack Mar 30, 2026 +2

Can someone tell rocket man, it’s not his time in the light right now. There are bigger idiots at work right now.

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TheMedRat Mar 30, 2026 +2

This is not the administration you want to taunt with shit like this.

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defroach84 Mar 29, 2026 +1

Someone wants trump to visit again.

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[deleted] Mar 29, 2026 +1

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thespice Mar 30, 2026 +1

What a load of stupid mercs we have running the political systems.

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greenmachine11235 Mar 30, 2026 +1

Dear NK, we currently have a trigger happy, insane octogenarian at the helm, please refrain from comments that might draw his ire as his underlings lack the moral fortitude to tell him things are a bad idea.

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WetBandit06 Mar 30, 2026 +1

You gonna bark all day little doggy, or are you gonna bite?

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Tidalsky114 Mar 30, 2026 +1

I think China would shoot it down. If NK actually launched a missile and did any kind of damage it would be scorched earth and china couldn't save them. We dont need this administration gaining war support.

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srpntmage Mar 30, 2026 +1

Great... can we aim it at an area that might make America great again?

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Imperial_TIE_Pilot Mar 30, 2026 +1

How many fronts can we goad Trump into fighting?

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RayTheMaster Mar 30, 2026 +1

Not now Kim

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BlindedAce Mar 30, 2026 +1

In today’s news from 1994.

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smellmyfingerplz Mar 30, 2026 +1

Cool, go ahead and launch it and see what happens.

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springsilver Mar 30, 2026 +1

I can target the sun with my slingshot, doesn’t mean I’ll hit it

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TruthOk8742 Mar 30, 2026 +1

When your whole personality is hating the USA.

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No_Vast2882 Mar 30, 2026 +1

Sending Trump another love letter.

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BluDYT Mar 30, 2026 +1

If they wish to get deleted from history.

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SuccessfulSquirrel32 Mar 30, 2026 +1

This reminds me of my childhood

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spoonybard326 Mar 30, 2026 +1

There’s a big difference between being able to hit a golf ball 200 yards and being able to get a hole in one on every par 3 every time.

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2beatenup Mar 30, 2026 +1

From the article… President Trump has expressed an openness to resuming talks with Kim over North Korea’s nuclear program, but there have been no signs of diplomatic progress…. ….. not from the article…. Exactly why now everyone on the world will want nukes….

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Subject_Issue6529 Mar 30, 2026 +1

Without being shot down?

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Diligent_Buster Mar 30, 2026 +1

Good thing he and trump are having an affair.

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BulletEnigma Mar 30, 2026 +1

Yet somehow Iran is a bigger threat i hear...

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gimpers420 Mar 30, 2026 +1

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW. 1100 S Ocean Blvd.

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throw_way_ya Mar 30, 2026 +1

Poor North Korea feeling left out during war time

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vkarabut Mar 30, 2026 +1

Trump about Kim Jong Un (feb 2019): “I like him. I get along with him great. We have a fantastic chemistry.”

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Low_Technician7346 Mar 30, 2026 +1

I though they were friends with Trump

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vossmanspal Mar 30, 2026 +1

Kim feeling left out just now.

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