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CIA chief signals desire for regime change in North Korea
CNN ^ | July 21, 2017 | Eli Watkins

Posted on 07/21/2017 11:11:40 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

CIA chief signals desire for regime change in North Korea

By Eli Watkins, CNN Updated 1234 GMT (2034 HKT) July 21, 2017

Washington (CNN)CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Thursday evening offered some of the most aggressive comments yet from the Trump administration with regard to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

Although Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has in the past said the US was against forcing Kim out of power or the collapse of his government, Pompeo said that the administration needed to find a way to separate Kim from his growing nuclear stockpile.

"It would be a great thing to denuclearize the peninsula, to get those weapons off of that, but the thing that is most dangerous about it is the character who holds the control over them today," Pompeo said in a discussion moderated by conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens at the Aspen Security Forum.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: nkorea; pompeo; regimechange

1 posted on 07/21/2017 11:11:40 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; ...

P!


2 posted on 07/21/2017 11:12:14 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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It would be a great thing to denuclearize the peninsula, to get those weapons off of that, but the thing that is most dangerous about it is the character who holds the control over them today,

Anybody want to bet that tonight CNN uses these words and charge the same thing can be said about President Trump?

3 posted on 07/21/2017 11:17:02 AM PDT by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: capydick
If they believe that Trump will nuke the Swamp. Maybe they do.:-)
4 posted on 07/21/2017 11:20:22 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Our track record on regime change is pretty dismal but contractors make out very well.


5 posted on 07/21/2017 11:59:44 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Regime Change at the CIA is a more pressing issue.


6 posted on 07/21/2017 12:05:31 PM PDT by The Toll
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Just because every other regime change the federal government has had a hand in has made things worse is no reason to stop now!


7 posted on 07/21/2017 12:06:43 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Use a drone to plant plastik on Kim’s airplane.


8 posted on 07/21/2017 12:19:16 PM PDT by Brilliant
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+1


9 posted on 07/21/2017 12:44:31 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
That's fine, but watch for the next Dark State move:
CIA chief signals desire for regime change in USA.
10 posted on 07/21/2017 1:16:33 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: The Toll

“Regime Change at the CIA is a more pressing issue.”

Indeed.


11 posted on 07/21/2017 3:28:51 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Why defend the EU?)
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