Yes, it's North Korea, with the latest editorial from the official Rodong Sinmun on the subject of - can you guess? - Donald Trump:
Trump, an old lunatic, hurled a stream of abuses at the DPRK, which seemed to be suggestive of an extreme option against it.
He recently bluffed, talking about "calm before a storm" when meeting with military brass hats of the U.S.
Some days later, he made reckless remarks that the past DPRK-U.S. dialogue proved ineffective and that only one thing would prove effective.
Such remarks are nothing but grumbles of the hooligan without an equal in the world, who is trembling with fear of the DPRK's toughest counteroffensive against the U.S.
It is poor calculation to escape the unfavorable circumstances by frightening the DPRK.
Trump's remarks are aimed to prevent the DPRK from taking strategic measures to attain the final goal of rounding off its state nuclear force and drive to anti-DPRK sanctions and pressure those countries concerned about the prevailing situation through escalating the tension to the maximum and, at the same time, tide over the ruling crisis at home and abroad.
Trump is well advised to clearly understand that his rude remarks will not deter somebody but make the U.S. society all the more uneasy and accelerate the doom of the evil empire.
If the U.S. imperialists opt for military provocation against the DPRK, the U.S. mainland will be reduced to ashes by the merciless nuclear retaliatory strike and the south Korean puppet forces, too, will have to pay dearly for toeing the U.S. line.
Sounding desperate? Perhaps the sanctions are starting to bite. The latest from Joshua Stanton:
Domestically, the regime is increasingly coming into conflict with its people as the regime squeezes them to make up for the loss of revenue, but the regime can only squeeze them so much: first, there is hardly anything left to steal from them; and second, as with the Great Confiscation of 2009, the regime knows that it has historically been economic conflicts with the state that have caused North Koreans to resist it. In the last six months, prices of fuel and other commodities have risen. South Korea’s National Intelligence Service believes that North Koreans are already disgruntled over the economic effects of sanctions, and that the regime is “conducting a large-scale campaign” to suppress that disgruntlement. None of these developments is irreversible, but for the first time since 2007, there are clear signs that sanctions are starting to take a toll on Pyongyang’s access to the global economy.
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