@cteavin:
@Frederick:
@cteavin:
I guess Kim Jung Un vowing to sink Japan into the ocean means nothing..
Rocketman recently launched 2 ICBM's right over Japan, causing Japan to warn their citizens to seek shelter.
KJU has been consistently setting off more ICBM tests and more nuclear explostions.. and now says he is considering
detonating a nuke over the Pacific Ocean.
What does NK have to do before people consider him to be a real threat? Nuke NYC? He's already got the missiles that can reach NYC in 40 mins.
Yes and no.
Do you speak another language? In translating between A and B a lot is lost. Translating to any Latin or Germanic language from any of the Asian languages makes those translations 1000 times more difficult because there are subtleties built into each language.
In Japanese they have keigo, honorifics based on age and social position. Translations often make Japanese sound more polite and distant than it actually is and makes for terrible translations when taken literally. The same is true for Korea. How, exactly, do you sink an island? Kim's words are bluster and people here understand that.
As for seeking shelter, be aware of the bias in the news you watch. There's a need to cast the tiny little-impoverished country of North Korea as a supervillain capable of destroying the US. That way of thinking about individuals terrorists gave us The Patriot Act. Those misdirections in the news made it okay to bomb Iraq and Afghanistan.
No one went looking for shelter when NK sent rockets over Japan. Not even close. They did broadcast it on the news and that's all they talked about for the hour or so it happened. What's odd to me is that NK has launched missiles over Japan before with much less fuss. What's different? PM Abe wants to pass his amendments changing the constitution. Nothing says we need an army like a country flying missiles over your northernmost, least densely populated region.
In regards to translation, I'm glad you mentioned that. Specifically, translating between Chinese and English is damned near impossible.