U.S. Navy Popping By My House
According to a U.S. Navy source speaking anonymously due to being unauthorized to talk about it — doesn’t that fill you with confidence, military officers skulking around “informing” for the media like rogue bureaucrats? — there is an American strike force moving toward the Korean peninsula, as a warning to Kim Jong-Un. This is a brilliant bit of anonymous sourcing, as it provides the North Koreans with ample opportunity to propagandize the U.S. as aggressors and provocateurs, not to mention provoking anti-American fever among the Korean and wider Asian left.
Why not just position your forces quietly, and let Kim’s government figure out what it means on their own?
In any case, as I live on the south coast of South Korea, not far from a Korean Navy base, I’m hoping for an impromptu dinner visit from the lads, whose Easter or Passover plans have just been thwarted. I’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, this…