Confused Kamala Harris Praises “the Republic of North Korea” on Visit to DMZ
If a week is a long time in politics, 24-hours can seem like an eternity, especially when a White House administration is confused by basic historical facts.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris amply illustrated this Thursday when she ended her four-day trip to Asia with a journey to the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the Korean Peninsula.
During the stop she confused onlooks by asserting the United States has a “strong alliance” with “the Republic of North Korea.”
“It is an alliance that is strong and enduring,” she added, intending to refer to the Republic of Korea, which is South Korea’s official name.
Her gaffe came barely 24-hours after President Joe Biden was himself confounded by events when he mistakenly gave a White House shoutout to Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN), as Breitbart News reported.
“Jackie are you here? Where’s Jackie?” Biden asked after thanking several bipartisan members of congress. “I didn’t think she was going to be here,” he added.
Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) died in a tragic car accident in August.
White HouseFox News noticed the Harris error, reporting the vice president then continued her remarks by professing the U.S.’s support for South Korea’s defense against the increasingly-aggressive North Korean government.
At the DMZ, Harris went to the top of a ridge, near guard towers and security cameras. She looked through bulky binoculars as a South Korean officer pointed out military installations on the southern side, AP reports.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris uses binoculars at the military observation post as she visits the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP)
Then an American officer pointed out some of the defenses along the military demarcation line, including barbed-wire fences and claymore mines. He said American soldiers regularly walk patrols along a path.
“It’s so close,” Harris observed.
Harris departed from Osan Air Base to fly back to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland at the conclusion of the DMZ visit.
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North Korea Fires Two Ballistic Missiles Ahead of Harris Visit to Seoul
SEOUL (Reuters)—North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea's military said, a day before U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is set to arrive in Seoul.
The launch came two days after South Korea and U.S. forces conducted a military drill in waters off the South's east coast involving an aircraft carrier. On Sunday, North Korea fired another ballistic missile toward the sea off its east coast.
Wednesday's missiles were launched from the Sunan area of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, between 6:10 and 6:20 p.m. 0910-0920 GMT), South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
They flew about 360 km (225 miles), reaching an altitude of 30 km (19 miles) and a maximum velocity of Mach 6 (4,600 mph or 7,450 kmh), they said, adding a detailed analysis was underway.
"North Korea's provocations will further strengthen the South Korean-U.S. deterrence and response capability, and only deepen North Korea's isolation from the international community," the Joint Chiefs said in a statement.
South Korea's national security council held an emergency meeting and condemned the test, vowing to continue building "overwhelming" capacity to deter North Korea, President Yoon Suk-yeol's office said in a separate statement.
North Korean state media did not mention the reports of the latest launches, but its leader Kim Jong Un has said its development of nuclear weapons and missiles is meant to defend North Korea against U.S. threats.
Japan's coast guard also reported a suspected ballistic missile test, which its minister of state for defence, Toshiro Ino, condemned as "unacceptable". He said Pyongyang's repeated missile launches imperilled Japanese and international security.
Following a stop in Japan, Harris will land in the South Korean capital and visit the heavily fortified Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between the neighbours on Thursday.
In a speech hours earlier aboard the destroyer USS Howard in the Japanese city of Yokosuka, Harris called Sunday's missile launch part of an "illicit weapons programme which threatens regional stability and violates multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions".
The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said the latest launch highlights the "destabilizing impact" of the North's unlawful weapons programmes.
A U.S. State Department spokesperson also condemned the test as a regional threat but said Washington remained committed to a diplomatic approach and urged Pyongyang to engage in dialogue.
North Korea has tested missiles at an unprecedented pace this year, while this week's joint drill is a show of force intended to warn against what could be Pyongyang's first nuclear test since 2017.
The isolated country has completed preparations for a nuclear test, a window for which could open between China's party congress in October and the U.S. mid-term elections in November, South Korean lawmakers said on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Additional reporting by Kantaro Komiya and Trevor Hunnicutt in Tokyo and Susan Heavey in Washington; Editing by Robert Birsel, Clarence Fernandez and Mark Heinrich)
Kamala Embarrasses America in Japan
The Biden administration really wants Kamala gone. So they keep sending her around the world. Unfortunately, she keeps coming back. The latest is dispatching her on a formal visit to Japan, attending Abe’s funeral and talking trade. President Bush I visited Japan and threw up on the prime minister. And that was still less embarrassing than Kamala talking for 15 minutes.
Who else could possibly string together a bunch of repetitive gibberish like this?
“We are moving forward, investing in innovation, investing in research and development, understanding that that is the way that we improve the human condition, that is the way that we discover and create the possibilities that we know we have to improve the way we do business, the way we live, to increase our accuracy, our effectiveness, our efficiency — the speed with which we do our work,” Kamala told Japanese business executives, who were understandably impressed that America had beaten them to the punch by creating the first female android.
But also thought that there was more work to be done on its brain chips.
Kamala lapsed into full-on valley girl nonsense when she told Japanese tech executives that, “I think the citizens and the people of our countries rely on products without even knowing sometimes how reliant those products are on semiconductor chips. They are the science behind the work of products like our smartphones and other things that we rely on every day.”
Like a malfunctioning AI program, Kamala automatically generates pointless tautologies and is capable of taking any idea and reducing it to third-grade level so she can understand it.
That’s fine when talking to third graders, who like someone they can look down on, but embarrassing when dealing with serious people on a world stage.
“The CHIPS Act will increase our ability to invest in innovation and develop new technologies. We think of this as being a down payment on future American leadership as it relates to our ability to have the workforce and the skillsets to continue to invest in innovation and research and development.”
The CHIPS Act will increase our ability to invest in innovation so we can invest in innovation?
Please, do tell us more.
“On innovation, the long history that we share is a history of admiring the work of each of our nations but the collaboration and what it has done to allow our businesses to thrive and our nations to prosper,” Kamala concluded after a brief interruption when someone tried to reboot her.
I give up. As does the nation of Japan. Hiroshima and Nagasaki was nothing compared to a visit by Kamala.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Report: Soros-Linked Group Wins $41M Contract from Biden to Help Illegal Aliens Evade Deportation
A non-governmental organization (NGO), with financial links to billionaire George Soros, has won a $41 million federal contract from President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to help illegal aliens evade deportation from the United States.
The Acacia Center for Justice, an NGO with financial ties to the Soros-linked Vera Institute of Justice, scored a contract from Biden’s DOJ to provide “legal services” to border crossers and illegal aliens after they are released into the U.S. interior in the hopes of staying permanently.
Fox News’s Joe Schoffstall reports:
The Biden administration awarded $41 million in taxpayer-backed government contracts to a new liberal nonprofit working to help illegal immigrants fight deportation amid the escalating border crisis, Fox News Digital has discovered. [Emphasis added]
The Acacia Center for Justice, a Washington, D.C.,-based nonprofit born from a partnership between the Vera Institute of Justice and Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR), has received six “legal services” contracts from the Department of Justice that carried start dates of Sept. 1, according to records. [Emphasis added]
The multimillion-dollar contracts began just months after the under-the-radar nonprofit received a July 29 determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service, which stated the group’s effective date of tax exemption was Dec. 29, 2021. [Emphasis added]
The Soros-linked Vera Institute of Justice, as Breitbart News previously reported, was recently awarded a $172 million contract from Biden’s DOJ to do the same work — help illegal aliens evade deportation from the U.S.
In 2018, the Vera Institute of Justice was previously awarded $310 million by the Obama administration to help Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) avoid deportation.
The latest estimates reveal that the Biden administration, from February 2021 to August 2022, has released at least 1.35 million border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities — a foreign population larger than the resident populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Montana.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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