U.S. May Launch Strike If North Korea Reaches For Nuclear Trigger

NBC News ^ | 4-13-2017 | William M. Arkin, Cynthia McFadden and Kenzi Abou-Sabe

[FreedomStar3028]

Don’t think we have a single neutron weapon.

[sushiman]

“This is actually getting scary. I can just see the Fat Idiot shooting conventional missiles at Seoul “

Japan also a target . And I am IN Japan .

[jjsheridan5]

The Cold War doctrine of mutually assured destruction doesn’t work with lunatics like KJ Un and the Iranian mullahs. Action is necessary.

Actually, the evidence is quite the opposite. Despite rhetoric that is over-the-top in its statement of intent to do harm to other countries, neither country has been particularly expansionist nor particularly damaging to anyone but their own people (yes, both have done things covertly, but nothing to match their rhetoric). The primary reason? They know that if they went too far, they would cease to exist.

Contrary to popular misconception, dictators are generally risk-averse, at least when dealing with more powerful neighbors.

Action is not necessary. Except, perhaps, to rescue the millions of people living in absolute poverty and crushing oppression. But it is not necessary for preventing him from doing anything suicidal, because the evidence is pretty clear that he knows where the line is, and, at least until now, hasn't overstepped it.

[MIA_eccl1212]

true enough... we don’t have a single one. BUT,
we do have over three thousand and all of them are mirv’ed...

perhaps we could break them down for field ordnance/artillery use ...
like any good self cleaning oven... you don’t have to clean up afterwords! A damp cloth is all that is needed...

:-)

of course we don’t actually HAVE them... one of our allies has them.. and will loan them to us for a small fee....

[Tammy8]

O, Kerry, and Hillary made quite a mess of foreign policy. The media covered for them every way they could but things really are a mess in some serious locations. There is need for some tidying up.

[Eddie01]

or we may not

[lancium]

And if KJ is able to get a missile to stay in the air Guam is ready to intercept.

[RC one]

It would have to be fast and massive

[NonValueAdded]

“I make the usual threats and it not raining money. What wrong with that Trump?”

[janetjanet998]

Jennifer Griffin ✔@JenGriffinFNC Multiple sr defense officials say this report is "wildly wrong" "crazy." Pentagon pushing back on NBC report, call it "extremely dangerous." https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/852648458402115587 … 6:12 PM - 13 Apr 2017

[PLMerite]

That image is begging to have Negan photoshopped in behind lil’ kim

[Vlad The Inhaler]

The US is concerned because satellite imagery reveraled preparations under way for what could be a major underground nuclear weapons test at Punggye-ri, the North Korean nuclear test site.

Like the underground tests the USA held at the Nevada Test Site for many years?

We have thousands of deliverable nuclear weapons and the NORKS don't even have one yet so why even think about getting into another unnecessary war?

Concentrate on the domestic agenda and let the pompous fat boy rattle his saber.

[IndispensableDestiny]

The Norks aren't preparing a missile. It's to be an underground test.

This is something the GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is suited for.

[shotgun]

Jimmah Cahtah killed the neutron bomb prgram...

[RayChuang88]

And a big one at that. The New York Times web site just posted pictures from DigitalGlobe showing a massive earth removal project near the test site over the past three months, an indication that what ever bomb the North Koreans plan to test could be a very high yield device, my guess a multistage thermonuclear bomb with a yield between 200 and 300 KT.

[GodAndCountryFirst]

FAKE NEWS. DISREGARD. I assume that all unnamed sources are nonexistent, made-up fictional characters.

[GodAndCountryFirst]

NY Times = FAKE NEWS. DISREGARD.

[Louis Foxwell]

My brother is in Tokyo, Japan right now for a conference. He is president of the International Locksmith’s Association. They are celebrating their 20th anniversary.

[sushiman]

I’m in Kumamoto . Today is the 1 year anniversary of the first of 2 killer earthquakes to strike our city . 28 hours later we got an equal 7+ magnitude quake . My wife was in the bath at the time , and her first thought when the 1st hit was that NK had nuked us . Tomorrow is Kim’s grandpa’s birthday anniv. Hoping he won’t use that day to send a nuke over here on the same day we got hit by giant quake .