Posted on 03/20/2017 7:08:13 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
U.S. congressman calls for preparedness for pre-emptive strike on N. Korea
WASHINGTON, March 19 (Yonhap) -- The United States should be prepared for a pre-emptive strike on North Korea as the communist nation is getting closer to perfecting capabilities to deliver a nuclear missile to the U.S., a House lawmaker said Sunday.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) made the remark in an interview with Fox News, days after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that all options were on the table in dealing with the communist nation and the military option is one of them.
"The closer that the North Korean regime gets to being able to deliver a nuclear weapon, we're going to have to be in a position to take some type of pre-emptive strike. We hope that it doesn't come to that. But this is an unhinged regime. You have 20 million people, you know, living in extreme poverty," Nunes said.
The congressman said he was impressed by Tillerson.
"I've never met the new secretary of state yet, but I am happy that we're getting off of this strategic patience, which was our last policy towards North Korea. At the end of the day here, something may have to be done because we can't afford to let a nuclear weapon go off in Seoul or Tokyo or the United States for that matter," he said.
He was referring to Tillerson's declaration of an end to former President Barack Obama's much-denounced North Korea policy, known as "strategic patience," which centers on waiting for Pyongyang to show good faith while increasing sanctions and pressure on the regime.
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This is much easier than portrayed.
We know when they are preparing to launch their space capable, long range missiles.
Plant one of our Aegis class ships in the area.
Knock down their next test.
Message sent, country not attacked.
Preemptive strike?
Only AFTER North Korea has launched a first strike, (which at this point is a pretty shaky proposition, as it may fizzle, or be intercepted by a missile-to-missile shoot-down), then we have permission morally and strategically to mount a full counter strike. North Korea has no second strike capability, and all their defenses would have been eaten up by the first launch.
The hell that would be rained down on North Korea would have very serious collateral damage, and the rubble that remained would be blasted to dust, with extensive loss of life, not through malice by the US, but by the megalomania of the current regime. Of course, they would not survive themselves, and there would be no further punishment, unless they should happen to flee ahead of their people to China, a situation the Chinese would look upon with great disfavor.
Rationally, the Chinese should not want this, so it is VERY much in their interests to put a leash on Kim Jung Un. Expect at least a palace revolution in the very near future.
I’m still waiting for Carter to return that Nobel Peace Prize (and the cash) which he received in 2002, for ‘brokering the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty with N Korea’. Two weeks after the award, we found out N Korea had nukes. That’s when I realized that the Nobels were political. The Left has destroyed honesty and trust by making EVERYTHING IN LIFE political.
In past, NorK has threatened the South with major dam water releases, for which the South has responded by creating its own dams, solely for the purpose of catching these intentional floods when they happen.
I mention this because obviously NorK has too many dams.
It also has four hydroelectric dams that provide much of its electricity. (Hint, hint).
Does this ahem Congressman realize that the U.S. has always been the retaliatory, and never opted for first strike, with our nuclear arsenal?
The problem with doing ANYTHING to NK is that there’s some 30,000 artillery pieces pointed at Seoul (home to 1/4 of South Koreans). We’re in a perpetual standoff with NK as whatever happens to end the dictatorship, first or second strike, will likely involve NK slaughtering about a million people and wrecking most of a world-class city within about 30 minutes. NK knows they can’t pull any $#!^ because a meaningful attack would justify the risk to Seoul during a counterstrike; NK also knows nobody else will attack them because nobody wants to risk Seoul during a first strike. Result is perpetual saber-rattling by NK, while the rest of the world tries to ignore the maniac with nukes.
The pathetic reality is that those 30,000 artillery likely wouldn’t be fired if ordered to - but nobody wants to risk Seoul to find out.
DPRK is China’s retarded, bastard child from a one night stand in a back alley with a coke whore.
> Nobel Peace Prize is a franchise of the Norwegian Left.
The Nobel Peace Prize in nothing more than a Participation Trophy (as my 5yo grandson has coined, a Poop Trophy).
Kim Jong-un doesn't care about the 'little people' of North Korea any more than Chelsea Clinton 'cares' about coal miners in West Virginia. Neither of them would lift a finger to stop massive starvation...
Hitting dams would cause farmers and innocent families to starve.
Kim Jong-un would retaliate out of pride but all his horrors would stay in place.
Maybe it'd be better to identify every top person in North Korea - political and defense - and kill all of 'em at one time. One full sweep. Some of them will be at 'installations' which makes those deaths a twofer.
Of course before doing this we need to have signed Statements with everyone in the world -(other than Iran and China) that this choice was necessary and we're ALL in on it...
But without electricity, the NorK military grinds to a halt.
Their two primary sources of energy are coal from China, and hydroelectric from their dams. Almost all the artificial light they generate is in Pyongyang. Which is also where most of the coal is burned.
http://i.imgur.com/kcEKsbr.jpg
The rest of the North Koreans seldom benefit from electricity or coal for fuel. This is why most of the North has been deforested, as fuel for heat and cooking by the rest of them.
So, you blow up their dams, especially in winter, you mostly hurt their government and military. Only when it is planting season will the rest miss the irrigation for their crops.
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