US Air Force B-1B Lancer. © AFP
It's not clear how this exercise is supposed to warn Pyongyang in any way since they have had since their inception the threat of being turned to ashes by American nukes. If anything, this type of posturing will further convince Kim Jong-un he needs his own nukes for protection.
He probably doesn't think the actions he is taking change things all that much since there's been the same threat against him throughout and every time we see him he's laughing.
The only sensible word on the matter came from Vladimir Putin:
Earlier in September, when the global community was calling for sanctions on North Korea and the US was flexing its military muscle with its allies in the region, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that military hysteria over North Korea may lead to “a global, planetary catastrophe and a huge loss of human life.”
“Ramping up military hysteria in such conditions is senseless; it’s a dead end,” he said, adding that the examples of Iraq and Libya have convinced the North Korean leadership that only nuclear deterrence can protect them, so no sanctions can dissuade them.
RT: US B-1B supersonic bombers conduct joint drill with S. Korea ‘as warning to Pyongyang’ – media
Russia has suggested a double freeze in which America and North Korea stop the military exercises along with NK's nuclear testing, etc but America refused since it claimed the right to drill with South Korea as it pleased. The situations keep ringing to absurdity.
Russia has a plan with the clear design of getting things settled down but America refuses for no better reason than bloody mindedness. I can so I will is one shabby and tawdry shame as a foreign policy.
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The good on that is steadily more people see it. He's getting to feel like a real politician after his tap dancing with Democrats but it still doesn't stop the adolescent machismo being played out by men and at least one woman who should have grown out of it decades ago. Remarkably enough, making deals for golf courses wasn't such a benefit toward any skill in international diplomacy. Imagine that. Pfft.
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