...and you (ave no talent for insults.
It’s really pathetic how shallow, predictable, and just plain, boring you are.

No, he's actually good at insults!   His students keep mentioning what an insult it is to be in one of his classes!

Here ya go, yet another Alt Left Coastal Progressive:

https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-12-01/kamala-harris-navigates-the-2020-presidential-landscape

And you display the limits of your reading comprehension. I would never knowingly defend a despot like the North Korean Dictator, or as he might be more realitically labeled, their king. True dictatorships are usually not dynastic in the modern age.

I was trying to illustrate his motivations in his actions. Wisdom is the ability to see things past the lens of your own experience. If you understand something about the other guy you’re likely to make better decisions.  Super Fragile Ego Extra Braggadocious has gotten rid of a great many of the people in the State department who really understood the other guys. We are collectively the poorer for it.

You prefer the blunderings of your Bigot in Chief, since in your eyes he can do no wrong. I prefer someone who thinks carefully about what’s going on before spouting off their big gob.

I understand you like communist dictators and in your post you attempted to justify his actions as defense of his country, which is laughable.

 You've  never sat foot on the Korean Peninsula and have obviously never cracked a book open on the subject, yet you use faculty lounge bullshit and try to cloak it as knowledge.

The North Koreans are not concerned about the SK’s storming the DMZ and launching an attack of the north.  The South Koreans have long wanted a peaceful unification without bloodshed because they realize those in the north are their relatives.

However there have been many attempts of the North to build tunnels that they could move thousands of troops through rapidly into the south.  That doesn’t sound like the North is worried about security.  The majority of incursions on the DMZ have been the North as aggressors.  The North has continually stated all of Korea is theirs and they are willing to take it back at any cost.

And why does Kim hate America?  Because the Americans fought along side the South to prevent the North from taking over and successfully pushed the North back.  And the Americans have protected the south from aggression.

 On the current affairs of the State Dept you are mindlessly spouting off talking points and once again clueless to what has really happened. 

 Those dismissals at the SD are of useless beauracrats, many which are embedded Obama sychophants who are only interested in pushing a failed policy.  And frankly is time to clean house at multiple agencies since the Chocolate Commie filled them with useless people. 

Kim Jun Un is neither crazy nor irrational. As others have wisely pointed out, he has invested heavily in nuclear weaponry to keep us at bay. His motivation is to keep himself and his dynasty in power. He isn’t likely to stage a first strike on us, since he knows his dynasty would be destroyed in the aftermath.

I could see a nuclear strike on us as a last desperate measure after the territorial integrity of North Korea wa abrogated due to an invasion. Easiest way to forestall that is to not invade.

Unfortunately, the bombastic verbiage from Hair Fuerer is just making things worse. It allows Kim Jun Il to truthfully paint himself as standing firm against a foreign aggressor. This will do nothing but endear him to his followers.

I am amazed he can keep power though. A soldier who recently defected from there (he had to evade a fullisade of gunfire to do it) has malnutrition and was full of intestinal worms. If this is the state of the soldiery things are far worse than I could of imagined. The first rule of dictatorship is you kept the soldiers well fed, well paid, and happy.

 I would expect a alt left progressive to come out in defense of a murderous dictator of a communist country and you certainly don't disappoint in that regards.  And in your endorsement of said dictator you of course have to take a swipe at the President of our country.

 You don't have a fucking clue as to what your blabbering about, which is nothing more than the bullshit being bantered around the faculty lounge.  Anyone who has read and studied the Korean Peninsula going back pre WW2 can understand what is going on there, and it's not lil Kim defending his homeland against the rogue Americans (which, btw, is a major theme of NK propaganda).

 You defend a dictator who has murdered his own people in the thousands, subjects people, entire families including children to concentration camps and even murders his own family members if they dare disagree with him.  You defend a dictator who is starving his nation by spending huge sums to prop up a military.  You defend a dictator who wouldn't think twice about trying to over run a free democracy to his south and murder millions of their citizens in the process.

 Perhaps you should go over to South Korea and lecture them on how your pal Kim is only defending himself against them and their American friends.  It would be amusing watching them tear you a new asshole.

I’ve spent considerable time in South Korea, have many friends there.  I’ve also spent time up on the DMZ and the JSA. I’ve even stood in the conference room on the NK side (with a ROK guard by the NK door).

These people know just how crazy Kim is and what he is capable of.  And they wouldn’t put it past him to do something a sane person wouldn’t do.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/01/rex-tillerson-is-not-leaving-role-as-secretary-state-trump-says.html

Sounds like the MSM is busy with the fake news again.

Yep. Citing a media outlet such as the NYT and their anonymous sources means pretty much nothing.

What - did it reach the US? I thought it splashed down in the sea of Japan. Let me know when one is incoming to the US. I'll be sure to watch for it. We developed the capability to track every launch vehicle around the globe back when I worked on them in the late 80s. Here's a brief from just one of the publicly offered systems in place. I won't bring up the others.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/how-us-satellites-pinpointed-source-of-missile-that-shot-down-airliner/

Trust me on this - or don't, we knew the size, direction, inclination, azimuth and a bunch of other stuff within 1 minute of the launch. If it had been heading for the US, or Hawaii then other things would have been done. We can tell when they are fueling on the ground as well. The only way a launch might catch us off-guard is a sub-sea launch from the S hemisphere which doesn't have real good coverage. Strategically, that's where I would launch toward the US if I was a state actor and wanted to get away with a nuke strike on us. CA, AZ, TX, FL are all good targets from around the S Pacific near Peru.

The last missle launch flew at a duration and apogee that was a proof of concept that it indeed had the range and payload capability to hit the mainland US. If you were as versed in missle ballistics as you are trying to claim you would know this.

 A half assed shot towards the US with a nuclear warhead would throw this world into chaos. Even if it didn’t hit the intended target a hit somewhere would release radiation into the atmosphere. Imagine that happening over Canada or the western US, or even Alaska.