On August 5, President Trump’s national security advisor H.R. McMaster said the United States is preparing to attack North Korea.

“What you’re asking is are we preparing plans for a preventive war, right?” McMaster said in response to a question during an MSNBC interview. “A war that would prevent North Korea from threatening the United States with a nuclear weapon. And the president’s been very clear about it. He said he’s not gonna tolerate North Korea being able to threaten the United States. If they have nuclear weapons that can threaten the United States. It’s intolerable from the president’s perspective. So of course, we have to provide all options to do that. And that includes a military option.”

The propaganda media, reading from a government script, insists North Korea is now capable of striking targets in the United States. Corporate scriveners and coiffured teleprompter readers on the alphabet networks tell us North Korea is now an imminent threat. “Pyongyang has revealed two types of ICBM during military parades, the KN-08, which can fly 7,000 miles, and the KN-14 with a range of 6,000 miles, Newsweek breathlessly reports. “It now appears that a significant portion of the continental United States is within range” of North Korean missiles, a former Korea analyst for the CIA, now ensconced at the Heritage Foundation, told The Guardian.
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