Rumblings of Korean War II

[dorchadas]

So the American government decided to send a carrier group to the Korean peninsula as a show of force against Korean nuclear ambitions, which prompted the representatives of the Eternal Lich President to issue its own response.

And then an hour ago, I saw that nhk_kokusai had tweeted this out:

菅官房長官は、アメリカの #トランプ 政権が #北朝鮮 に対し武力行使も排除しない姿勢を示していることに関連し、アメリカや韓国と緊密に連携しながら、朝鮮半島で在留邦人の退避が必要になる場合も含め、万全な態勢を取っていると強調。https://t.co/2ll84vLzm5

— ＮＨＫ国際部 (@nhk_kokusai) April 12, 2017

Here's my translation:

Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga [Yoshihide] highlighted that, in relation to President Trump's deployment of the military toward North Korea and refusal to lift sanctions, while America and South Korea maintain their cooperation, [Japan] must be prepared in case an evacuation of Japanese citizens living on the Korean Peninsula becomes necessary.

So, they're at least admitting the possibility of another war. Remember when people assumed that our Dear Leader would be an isolationist who wouldn't go around starting wars, unlike that hawk Clinton? Those takes, as they say, did not age well.

At least Twitter will keep us entertained in the 20 minutes after the missiles launch.