North Korea: Donald Trump Is ‘Sentenced To Death’ For Hurting ‘The Dignity Of The Supreme Leadership’

According to a recent state-run newspaper editorial, the North Korean people are sentencing president Donald Trump to death because he used his free speech to condemn the harsh dictatorship.

The article says that the President offended the country when he denounced its “cruel dictatorship” during his tour around Asia and for those remarks, he should apparently be killed.  “The worst crime for which he can never be pardoned is that he dared [to] malignantly hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership,” the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun wrote, according to The Independent. “He should know that he is just a hideous criminal sentenced to death by the Korean people.”

Trump was also condemned as a coward by the North Koreans for canceling his visit to the border because of inclement weather conditions. But the article said that the President “was just too scared to face the glaring eyes of our troops”, according to the AFP, which first reported the belligerent piece.  Trump’s helicopter taking him to the DMZ (demilitarized zone) had turned back after just five minutes due to bad weather, an explanation the propaganda-driven government-controlled newspaper intentionally left out.

The visit was part of a marathon five-nation Asia tour by the US president aimed largely at galvanizing regional opposition to the North’s nuclear weapons ambitions.

Towards the end of his Asia tour, Trump may have helped increase tensions between the rogue state. He sent a tweet from Hanoi that took the verbal jousting to a new level, taunting the North Korean leader over his height and weight.

“Why would Kim Jong-Un insult me by calling me ‘old,’ when I would NEVER call him ‘short and fat’?” he tweeted.

Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me "old," when I would NEVER call him "short and fat?" Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend – and maybe someday that will happen!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 12, 2017

The members of the ruling Kim dynasty both past and present, enjoy near god-like status in North Korea. That makes them extremely sensitive to any remark that might be seen as mocking or disrespectful of the current regime leadership.

The public does not have freedom of speech in North Korea, and can only print what they are told by the communist government.

Ray Kurzweil Predicts Humans Will Merge with Computers by 2029

Technological singularity – humans becoming one with computers – will morph us into “super humans” by the year 2029. Fake news? A new science fiction novel? TV show? Nope. It’s a prediction made by Google’s Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil. He’s made 147 predictions since the 1990’s, and he has an 86% success rate. [1]

Source: International Business Times

A few of Kurzweil’s predictions that came true:

• In 1999, Kurzweil predicted that “personal computers are available in a wide range of sizes and shapes, and are commonly embedded in clothing and jewelry such as wristwatches, rings, earrings and other body ornaments” by 2009.

• Also in 1999, Kurzweil foresaw that “individuals primarily use portable computers” by 2009.

• In 2000, Kurzweil said that by 2010, “[Computers] will tap into the worldwide mesh of high-speed communications and computational resources.” [2]

Many of Kurzweil’s technology predictions didn’t come to pass, but he has a pretty good track record.

According to Kurzweil, we live in a cybernetic society and we will eventually have computers in our brains, and machines will be more intelligent than humans. And, he says, it’s already happening. He points to people’s addictions to their smartphones as proof, and believes that wiring this technology into our brains will be the next step in the progression. [1]

Read: Top Transhumanism CEO Says AI Singularity Will Go ‘Very Badly For Humans’

The scientific explanation of “singularity” is when carbon and silicon-based intelligence will merge to form a single global consciousness.

Kurzweil says:

“By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence. That leads to computers having human intelligence, our putting them inside our brains, connecting them to the cloud, expanding who we are.

Today, that’s not just a future scenario. It’s here, in part, and it’s going to accelerate.” [1]

This might sound like a frightening scenario to you or me, but Kurzweil sees this as a positive thing that will only make us better humans.

“We’re going to get more neocortex, we’re going to be funnier, we’re going to be better at music. We’re going to be sexier. We’re really going to exemplify all the things that we value in humans to a greater degree.” [1]

Read: Many Brits Believe Technology Could Take Over Humanity by 2036

Kurzweil’s AI vision occurs nearer in the future than those of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son. Hawking has said he believes singularity may occur by 2045, and Son has said he thinks we’ll have computers in our brains in the next 30 years. [3]

At an October press conference discussing details of his upcoming $100 billion investment fund, Son said:

“I think a big paradigm shift is coming. The biggest theme in my view is the Singularity. I think it is coming into reality in the next 30 years. For that vision, I am exercising that strategy. $100 billion is an interesting size of ammunition. In my view, that is the beginning. My passion is bigger than many people think.” [3]

But billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, of SpaceX and Tesla fame, is terrified that AI will be the end of humanity, and warns that people might one day be ruled by robots. Musk believes artificial intelligence could be a bigger threat than nuclear weapons, and has likened improving AI to “summoning the demon.” If humans don’t merge with machines, Musk warns, they will become irrelevant. [4]

Source: Daily Mail

Stephen Hawking shares similar concerns. He once wrote:

“If a superior alien civilisation sent us a message saying, ‘We’ll arrive in a few decades,’ would we just reply, ‘OK, call us when you get here—we’ll leave the lights on’? Probably not—but this is more or less what is happening with AI.” [5]

Read: Top Transhuman CEO Says AI Singularity Will Go “Very Badly for Humans”

Singularity has the potential to boost the human race or destroy it, depending on whom you ask. The question is, is that a risk humans should take?

Sources:

[1] Daily Mail

[2] Business Insider

[3] Fox News

[4] Time

[5] The Independent

International Business Times

Daily Mail

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About Julie Fidler:
	Julie Fidler is a freelance writer, legal blogger, and the author of Adventures in Holy Matrimony: For Better or the Absolute Worst. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two ridiculously spoiled cats. She occasionally pontificates on her blog.