Chapter 2 The Hammer and the Carrot
April 2017
It was a hot spring on the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-un, who American Senator John McCain has called a “crazy fat kid,” was preparing more nuclear weapons tests. The rotund dictator had just finished overseeing a parade celebrating “The Day of the Sun,” a holiday marking the birthday of Kim Il-sung, founder of North Korea and grandfather of Kim Jong-un.
During the parade, North Korea’s military displayed missile canisters bigger and longer than ever before. The broadcast bravado left Pentagon analysts buzzing, wondering if the impressive canisters were an empty Potemkin village or if North Korea had truly made great strides in creating new solid fuel missiles like the KN-15 ...
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