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Thursday August 10, 2017

August 9, 2017 by Graeme MacKay

Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday August 10, 2017

Trump’s Threat to North Korea Was Improvised

President Trump delivered his “fire and fury” threat to North Korea on Tuesday with arms folded, jaw set and eyes flitting on what appeared to be a single page of talking points set before him on the conference table at his New Jersey golf resort.

April 15, 2013

The piece of paper, as it turned out, was a fact sheet on the opioid crisis he had come to talk about, and his ominous warning to Pyongyang was entirely improvised, according to several people with direct knowledge of what unfolded. In discussions with advisers beforehand, he had not run the specific language by them, though he had talked over possible responses in a general way.

The inflammatory words quickly escalated the confrontation with North Korea to a new, alarming level and were followed shortly by a new threat from North Korea to obliterate an American air base on Guam. In the hours since, the president’s advisers have sought to calm the situation, with Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson assuring Americans that they “should sleep at night” without worrying about an imminent war.

June 21, 2006

But the president’s ad-libbed threat reflected an evolving and still unsettled approach to one of the most dangerous hot spots in the world as Mr. Trump and his team debate diplomatic, economic and military options.

The president’s aides are divided on North Korea, as on other issues, with national security veterans like Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, on one side and Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s chief strategist, and his allies on the other. 

The president had been told about a Washington Post story on North Korea’s progress in miniaturizing nuclear warheads so that they could fit on top of a ballistic missile, and was in a bellicose mood, according to a person who spoke with him before he made the statement. His team assumed that he would be asked about North Korea during a scheduled media appearance tied to his opioid meeting, but Mr. Trump had not mentioned his comment during a conference call beforehand that focused on North Korea.

“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Mr. Trump told reporters in remarks aired on television and broadcast around the globe. “They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”(Source: New York Times) 

 

Posted in: Canada Tagged: beach volleyball, diplomacy, Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un, missiles, North Korea, Summer, USA

Friday, August 5 – August 16, 2016

August 5, 2016 by Graeme MacKay
Illustration by Graeme MacKay - 2016 Summer Olympic Games - illustration used for the cover of a special section devoted to the sporting event held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The process involved drawing and colouring the individual characters. Next was determining how they would best fit into a space roughly measuring 8.25 x 10.5 inches. (See Olympic-cover2). The background was chosen to be divided 5 ways: water, athletic indoor, athletic outdoor, track, and gymnastics.) Estimated completion time: 18hrs. Rio, 2016, Olympic, Games, Summer, Archery, badminton, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, canoe, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, golf, field hockey, javelin, discus, shotput, relay, pommel horse, balance beam, uneven bars, gymnastics, breaststroke, sidestroke, butterfly, rowing, rugby sailing, shooting, synchronized, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, water polo, weightlifting, wrestling, couch potatoes

Illustration by Graeme MacKay – Friday August 5, 2016

2016 Summer Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Summer Games Gallery

Rio - June 30, 2016
Rio – June 30, 2016
Rio - July 5, 2016
Rio – July 5, 2016
London - August 3, 2012
London – August 3, 2012
London - July 27, 2012
London – July 27, 2012
Beijing - August 14, 2008
Beijing – August 14, 2008
Beijing - August 7, 2008
Beijing – August 7, 2008
Beijing - March 24, 2008
Beijing – March 24, 2008
Athens - September 1, 2004
Athens – September 1, 2004
Athens - August 19, 2004
Athens – August 19, 2004
Athens - August 12, 2004
Athens – August 12, 2004
Athens - August 5, 2004
Athens – August 5, 2004
Athens - February 23, 2002
Athens – February 23, 2002
Athens - August 16, 2004
Athens – August 16, 2004
Sydney - September 9, 2000
Sydney – September 9, 2000
Posted in: International Tagged: 2016, Archery, badminton, balance beam, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, breaststroke, butterfly, canoe, couch potatoes, cycling, discus, diving, equestrian, fencing, field hockey, Games, golf, gymnastics, javelin, Olympic, pommel horse, relay, Rio, rowing, rugby sailing, shooting, shotput, sidestroke, Summer, swimming, synchronized, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, uneven bars, water polo, weightlifting, wrestling

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