Very unexciting footage of the Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Kentucky (SSBN 737) pulling into port in Busan was just released by the U.S. Navy on the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service.

You're probably asking yourself why this is on Funker530 right now, aren't you? It seems like a pretty mundane and boring video of a submarine pulling into port in Korea, and that's pretty much exactly what it is. That said, I know a few of you come down here to the analysis tab and actually read what we write from time to time, so let me go ahead and write you a little article about the significance of this event in Busan, Korea.

If you're out of the loop on naval terminology, and don't know what an Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine is, here's a quick catch up. It's a nuclear missile launch platform for the United States of America. We keep a few of these bad boys floating around in the ocean specifically to make it impossible for a large-scale nuclear attack on the United States to take out our ability to retaliate against any nation that would choose to do so. This is the first time in 40 years we have put a nuclear capable submarine off the coast of Korea.

Currently, North and South Korea are at a serious low-point in their relationship. Kim Jong Un is not a very happy dictator, and South Korea really doesn't give a damn what he thinks about the situation. As a show of force, and an indicator of the American commitment to defending South Korea, we parked a nuclear capable submarine in the port of Busan as a little way of saying "FAFO".

Now, again, you're wondering why this matters. This seems like a pretty normal thing for the United States to do and you aren't wrong. We may not have the most nukes, because we disarmed pretty heavily, but we do have the superior strike force when it comes to the deployment and capabilities of our nuclear arsenal. North Korea on the other hand has almost no nuclear weapons, and the few that they do have are held together by off-brand chewing gum and are launched via a foot pedal in the dictator's basement.

In response to us making the port call in Busan with a nuclear capable submarine, North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles as a warning. On Thursday, the North Korean Defense Minister Kang Sun-nam stated that the USS Kentucky's visit posed a threat to North Korea and might fall under that country's conditions for the use of nuclear weapons.

So, reading between the lines, there's something of a Korean missile crisis happening right now, but it's not important enough for Twitter to tell you about it today because in the scheme of the world post 2020, a nuclear missile crisis between two countries over a 70-year-old conflict isn't very "poggers" and no one really cares.

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