North Korea threat: US official warns 'inevitable' regime develops ICBM

Fox News ^ | 5/24/17 | Fox News

[Roman_War_Criminal]

A U.S. defense official said Tuesday that-- if left unchecked-- it is "inevitable" that North Korea will develop a nuclear device that has intercontinental capabilities.

Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said at a Senate hearing that North Korea is working to produce a device that can be transported on a ballistic missile.

"If left on its current trajectory, the regime will ultimately succeed in fielding a nuclear-armed missile capable of threatening the United States homeland," Stewart said.

Stewart’s remarks are the latest indication of the U.S.’ increased worries about North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons program, which Pyongyang has said is only being developed for self-defense.

[dp0622]

That’s unacceptable.

the USA is my country, not SK.

And even in the long term, it would be better for South Korea.

I expect some to go nuts about the SK thing. I can live with that.

[dp0622]

And thanks Truman

[zzwhale]

NOT IF TRUMP SPLATTERS THE LITTLE FAT FORKER’S BRAINS WITH A TOMAHAWK OR TWO...

what is china going to do...... delay the next shipment of T shirts or i-phones...

[alloysteel]

Woulda, coulda, shoulda. Harry Truman let his visceral HATRED of MacArthur color his judgment when he called the highly successful general home. There were no differences between Truman and MacArthur that could not have been brokered, if approached in a dispassionate and civil manner, but that was simply not Truman’s way. Think Jersey bull in fly time.

[BenLurkin]

Are North Korea and Iran still working together on this?

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[Little Ray]

North Korea should be spending its money on something important, like sandwiches.

[arthurus]

Well, we marched smartly up that hill then ... then nothing. Will we now march back down again?

[dp0622]

I know of the story, and at 49 now should know a lot more of the story.

All I know is MacArthur wanted to use a dozen or so nukes (i THINK, actually), Truman said no, and China spilled down both sides onto our men like cockroaches.

Don’t know if that was before or after Mac wanted to use the nukes.

[DiogenesLamp]

North Korea threat: US official warns 'inevitable' regime develops ICBM

It was Curtis LeMay's plan to bomb the living H3ll out of the Russians to prevent them from ever having a Nuclear capability.

This should have been our response from the beginning. We should have never allowed anyone outside our allies to have or develop this technology, and most especially not the Muslim Pakistanis or Muslim Iranians or the North Koreans.

It's bad enough that Russia and China have nukes, but under no circumstances should Iran or North Korea ever be allowed to make them or their delivery systems.

[BipolarBob]

Nuke them from space. It’s the only way to make sure.

[Hugin]

IMHO MacArthur should have been fired earlier. He let his own arrogance and contempt of the Chinese lead him to ignore all evidence that the ChiComs had infiltrated a massive army into NK. including Chinese troops we captured. The result was the destruction of his X Corps in the west, and near destruction of the Marines in the east. The only reason the Marines survived was they ignored his orders and followed procedures establishing fortified bases along their route of march, which Mac did not have his X Corps do. Brilliant as he was, that was a disaster that should have gotten any general fired.

[alloysteel]

General MacArthur, who has so brilliantly used the landing at Inch’on to essentially cut the North Korean army in two and isolate them from their supply lines, had pressed forward against what amounted to minimal resistance, to within sight of the Chosin Reservoir on the Yalu River, separating China from North Korea, when this storm of personality from Truman put the kibosh on the use of ANY nukes, in whatever form. That, together with the most severe winter that part of Asia had ever experienced, left our troops almost outrunning their own supply lines, and the lead force, Marines, were unwilling to retreat easily, and in fact, the terrain and the harsh cold made escape near impossible. GIs were literally freezing to death as supplies ran out and there were no roads to leave by. The fact that the Chinese Army was swarming over the border only made a very bad situation much, much worse, and by then, it was pretty much of a rout.

So in a span of a little over six months, MacArthur went from shining hero and brilliant strategist to the lowest form of cur.

If Truman has simply SAID no, and allowed the military to fight for objectives they were sure they could achieve, this could have been smoothed over. But the supremacy of civilian control of the military was held to be the greatest of virtues, and Truman summarily fired MacArthur.

With great personal prejudice.

[dp0622]

If Truman has simply SAID no,...

He did say no, didn’t he?

To using nukes?