Asia’s Autocrats Are Calling, Mr. Biden
By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN While President Joe Biden was in Brussels and Warsaw showing U.S. solidarity with Ukraine, the 38-year-old autocrat who rules North Korea made a bold bid for the president’s attention.For the first time since 2017, Kim Jong Un test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-17, the largest road-mobile missile ever launched.While it flew 600 miles from Pyongyang into the Sea of Japan, the mammoth missile flew for 71 minutes, reaching an altitude of 3,852 miles.Had it been fired in a normal trajectory, its missile warheads could have reached Washington, D.C., and every city in the USA.As any first strike on the United States with such a weapon would ensure the destruction of Kim’s dynasty, regime, and country,…Continue Reading