KOREAN MYSTERY – AT 8:14 A.M. ET:   What's on those artificial islands that North Korea has been building?  From Fox: 

North Korea is at it again. Or rather, it is continuing what it started five years ago.

Artificial islands have been discovered surrounding Sohae Satellite Launching Station, a missile development and testing site roughly 70 miles northwest of Pyongyang. Satellite images suggest the islands are home to military installations and have been under development for at least five years.

While their purpose is unknown, suspicions are high that the islands could be used to launch missiles.

Those speculations are not far off the mark, according to Gordon Chang, author of “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World.”

“North Korea is never up to any good,” Chang said in an emailed statement to Fox News. “The new facilities, whatever their purpose, will be used for evil deeds, mischief, or troublemaking of some sort.”

“My sense is that the facilities on the new islands will be used for missile launches of some kind, especially because they are near Sohae.”

North Korea could just be following in its neighbor China’s footsteps. In recent years, China has reportedly been stocking its disputed man-made islands with missiles.

COMMENT:  Others disagree with the analysis and see no visible danger from the islands.  But I doubt if North Korea would build artificial islands near a launching station as vacation getaways. 

The situation with North Korea is frightening.  It has one of the most irrational and militant regimes in the world, and it not only builds weapons of mass destruction, it exports them.

I suspect Trump is waiting for another North Korean nuclear or missile test before making a decisive move.  He has promised to solve this problem, not simply kick the can down the road.

May 9, 2017