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Top U.S. General Hints at Military Action Against North Korea in a ‘Few More Months’
Daily Beast ^ | 07.25.17 | GORDON G. CHANG

Posted on 07/25/2017 6:42:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Top U.S. General Hints at Military Action Against North Korea in a ‘Few More Months’

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the U.S. might use force against North Korea as early as this fall. Did you hear that, Pyongyang? How about you, Beijing?

GORDON G. CHANG
07.25.17 1:00 AM ET

Several media outlets have reported that Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said over the weekend that war with North Korea was not “unimaginable.” What has gone unreported is that he also suggested the administration is giving diplomacy only “a few more months.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: china; nkorea; northkorea; russia; war
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Time is indeed in short supply.
1 posted on 07/25/2017 6:42:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; ...

P!


2 posted on 07/25/2017 6:42:46 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Too close to winter. Guess that means it won’t take long.


3 posted on 07/25/2017 6:44:00 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I thought The Donald wasn’t going to make pre-announcments


4 posted on 07/25/2017 6:45:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The Chinese are mobilizing on the NK border as we speak, preparing for contingency and collapse of the regime.

Cut the country in half, agree to no nuclear weapons and wipe fatso out.


5 posted on 07/25/2017 6:45:24 PM PDT by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: BenLurkin

Doesn’t say Trump announced it.


6 posted on 07/25/2017 6:47:31 PM PDT by dforest
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Twitters, and rumors, and liars, oh my!


7 posted on 07/25/2017 6:58:17 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Er. The Army is in the middle east and other places. Not much we can do conventionally. Not much we could do if the entire army were there. The NKs don’t count on Allah to guide their bullets. The NK defenses in depth have to be seen to be believed.


8 posted on 07/25/2017 7:02:17 PM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Cobalt Thorium G...
9 posted on 07/25/2017 7:07:55 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

All I can say if the U.S. plans an attack for the fall I hope its a thorough campaign and not a stop and start routine like we did in Vietnam.

A winter war will be hell not only for the North Korean civilian Populace but the south as well.

We also must not forget about the North’s sponsor China.What are her plans?

From what I read she is building up her forces along her southern border with North Korea.

Now that could be to prevent an immigrant invasion or it could be preparation to join the North in its defense against a U.S. attack.

Its going to be an interesting time.


10 posted on 07/25/2017 7:17:21 PM PDT by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Tactical nukes never take long. And that’s what we’ll have to use to take out artillary. EMPs to hit the command and control. The Nork army is a Potemkin village - and a starving one at that!


11 posted on 07/25/2017 7:24:28 PM PDT by CWW (Pray for God's Protection!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

“Loose lips sink ships.”

Seems like a ruse to me.


12 posted on 07/25/2017 7:47:39 PM PDT by onedoug ( KEK)
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To: dforest

Could be Trump, may have authorized this comment.

The North Koreans seem to have gotten more advanced in this process, than many had originally thought.

I hear on the news, that the North is possibly about a day away from their next test. Could be our powers that be, are possibly mulling whether to take action for this one, and maybe this is a way to telegraph that message to the guy making the decisions in NK, not to do anything destabilizing, from his end.

Or maybe he’s just a nobody who spouted his mouth off.

Though looking at who the comment is attributed to, I somehow doubt that.


13 posted on 07/25/2017 8:09:33 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Seruzawa
All the talking heads are concerned with are the gazillions of tube artillery pieces dug in within range of Seoul.

Sounds tailor made for a neutron bomb or three. Unless we stopped making them.

14 posted on 07/25/2017 8:31:05 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: puppypusher

Waiting for the prevailing winds to shift?


15 posted on 07/25/2017 8:42:05 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: puppypusher

“A winter war will be hell ot only for the North Korean civilian Populace but the south as well.”

Two good friends survived the Frozen Chosin!

One was a 19 year old Navy corpman assigned to a Marine Battalion.

The other was a 19 year old Marine Lance Corporal.

They ended up working for the same company and discovered over a dinner one night.

They had survived the Frozen Chosin and didn’t know each other, during that time in hell.


16 posted on 07/25/2017 9:07:13 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

North Korea could cross ICBM threshold next year, U.S. officials warn in new assessment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/north-korea-could-cross-icbm-threshold-next-year-us-officials-warn-in-new-assessment/2017/07/25/4107dc4a-70af-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.60671b3b95a1


17 posted on 07/26/2017 2:14:59 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: CWW

> The Nork army is a Potemkin village - and a starving one at that!

I used to believe that stuff, but now I’m pretty sure it’s propaganda. Been hearing it since the 1970s and there’s simply no way this regime remains standing in 2017 if the propaganda is even one-third true.

I have to wonder if that picture of NK at night - with the lights out across the whole country - is an example of their defensive protocols (when surrounded by hostile powers, going dark at night makes a lot of sense) and not a demonstration of a lack of ability to produce electricity.

That governments lie about their enemies is something overwhelmingly supported by the record; that the US does so is incontrovertible.

Big picture, the official story once again doesn’t add up; we remain ignorant of the true situation in NK and will remain so until some reliable sources of information come to light.


18 posted on 07/26/2017 2:22:35 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: TigerLikesRooster

We are not going to do anything in North Korea.

There is no threat to the US. Their missiles are not capable of anything except punching a hole in the forests of Alaska. That is not worth bringing down the wrath of Kim on Seoul.


19 posted on 07/26/2017 3:05:43 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: BenLurkin
I thought The Donald wasn’t going to make pre-announcments

Not so veiled warnings are not the same as telegraphing - no tactical info included.

20 posted on 07/26/2017 3:29:25 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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