While Trump Lies About Obama N. Korea Lobs Missiles Into Sea of Japan

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by Michael J. Scott

While Donald Trump is making up stories about Barack Obama and hiding in his luxury Florida resort, an increasingly bold North Korea is firing ballistic missiles, three out of four of which landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said.

(CNN) The move comes as South Korea and the United States are holding their joint military exercises, which Pyongyang sees as preparations for an invasion.

Kwon Ki-joon, a spokesman for the South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman, said “several projectiles” flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles).

The firing took place in Tongchang-ri, in the country’s North Pyongan province, and the projectiles are believed to have landed in the Sea of Japan, which is also known as the East Sea, according to a South Korean Defense Ministry official.

South Korean President Hwang Kyo-ahn is scheduled to chair a meeting of the country’s National Security Council at 9 a.m. local time.

The firing comes as South Korea and the United States are holding their annual military exercises, known as Foal Eagle, which both countries say are defensive in nature.

North Korea has already denounced this year’s exercises through state media service KCNA.

“Now that the US imperialists and the South Korean puppet forces again kicked off the dangerous nuclear war drills against the DPRK at its doorstep, our army will counter them with the toughest counteractions,” it said.

The exercises usually draw condemnation and retribution from Pyongyang. During last year’s drills, North Korea fired multiple short to medium range missiles and announced it could place nuclear warheads on its weapons.

The firing also comes a day after Seoul quadrupled the award for North Korean defectors and nearly a month after North Korea test-fired a new type of missile, the Pukguksong-2, a medium-long range ballistic missile.

Clearly, the leader of the Free World, preoccupied with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and mysterious, nonexistent wiretaps, not to mention the many suspected connections with the Russians, has no time for such trivialities, and that should scare hell out of all of us. Remember Nero and his fiddle?

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