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U.S. would seek regime change in North Korea if attack occurs
Washington Times ^ | 4/4/13 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 04/04/2013 11:40:47 AM PDT by illiac

The U.S. would oust the communist regime in North Korea if it uses its nuclear weapons or launches an all-out invasion on South Korea and the 28,500 American troops stationed there, national security sources say.

The Obama administration has not articulated such a far-reaching retaliation, even as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un threatens to attack both the South Korean and the U.S. mainland.

But national security sources say it is a common assumption within the Pentagon and U.S. Pacific Command that a full-force attack by Pyongyang would put in place a contingency plan of massive retaliation against the North aimed at bringing down the Stalinist regime. President Obama then would be faced with making the war decision.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoasia; governmentnews; kn08musudan; korea; nkorea; northkorea; regimechange; scarborough; waronterror
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To: illiac

Uh, no thanks.

I’d prefer we just send a very clear message of “Mess with the US and we will end you” rather than spend another decade of watching our soldiers get killed by idiotic ROE just so politicians can belch and fart about how humanitarian they are.

By the way, considering a dem got us involved in Korea in the first place and rejected finishing the job then, do we really want an even more incompetent dem running things this time around?


121 posted on 04/05/2013 12:53:21 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: illiac

“Regime change”, which leads to “nationbuilding,” which leads to yet another extended military commitment in a non-permissive environment, which leads to many thousands of more dead troops.

No more of this “regime change” crap. Nuke them out of existence.


122 posted on 04/05/2013 12:59:45 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: illiac

This seems to have all started on the heels of that Dennis Rodman visit. WTH was passed through Rodman to them?


123 posted on 04/05/2013 1:04:28 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: ScottinVA

This has been brought up enough times that I am now wondering the same....


124 posted on 04/05/2013 1:05:09 PM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: ScottinVA

Kim Jr. was p*ssed that Rodman didn’t bring Lady Gaga and Madonna.


125 posted on 04/05/2013 1:06:26 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Orange1998

When you compare US schools to Korean schools and study habits, you’d see that our kids are stupid and lazy and the schools here are complete crap. I think US kids are several years or more behind SK kids in math and science. US kids are taught how to be good sluts.


126 posted on 04/05/2013 1:51:48 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Orange1998

S Korea went from poverty to one of the wealthiest countries in a generation. An awesome achievement.

Obama and the left is doing the reverse here.


127 posted on 04/05/2013 1:52:50 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Eleutheria5

FYI should anything happen China has a defensive pact with North Korea. They’re not reinforcing the border rail lines and didn’t build a new bridge over the Yalu for the sake of tourism.


128 posted on 04/05/2013 2:17:30 PM PDT by Justa
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To: GeronL

Oh yeah. I also like the way they are handling the N.Korea crisis. Instead of saber rattling they methodology thought this out and are prepared from the blogs I have read. S. Korea is going to pull a John Wayne on Lil Kim.

I fully expect Regime Change “internally” very soon.

How about this little fact “average 8 inch shorter”.

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2001857855_korea14.html

South Korean anthropologists who measured North Korean refugees here in Yanji, a city 15 miles from the North Korean border, found that most of the teenage boys stood less than 5 feet tall and weighed less than 100 pounds. In contrast, the average 17-year-old South Korean boy is 5-feet-8, slightly shorter than an American boy of the same age.


129 posted on 04/05/2013 7:16:41 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: Orange1998

North Koreans don’t know it They are fed propaganda that NK is the wealthiest, healthiest country on Earth and the world is jealous of them


130 posted on 04/06/2013 8:09:10 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Justa

Pacts come and pacts go. The streams of refugees coming over the Yalu might conceivably have weakened their ties, as well as the brinkmanship with the US. China is trading with the US. That doesn’t mean they suddenly love America, but they have considerably less reason to love NK at this time than they did back in the 1950s, and a war with NK would threaten their never-ending flow of crappy manufactured goods to the US, should they decide to fully honor the letter and spirit of this pact. My guess is that they would do what Asiatics tend to do in these situations, and nominally stick to the bare letter of this pact, while in fact quietly doing all they can to undermine NK.


131 posted on 04/06/2013 1:17:41 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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