Posted on 04/13/2017 5:48:56 PM PDT by blam
The U.S. is prepared to launch a preemptive strike with conventional weapons against North Korea should officials become convinced that North Korea is about to follow through with a nuclear weapons test, multiple senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.
North Korea has warned that a "big event" is near, and U.S. officials say signs point to a nuclear test that could come as early as this weekend.
The intelligence officials told NBC News that the U.S. has positioned two destroyers capable of shooting Tomahawk cruise missiles in the region, one just 300 miles from the North Korean nuclear test site.
American heavy bombers are also positioned in Guam to attack North Korea should it be necessary, and earlier this week, the Pentagon announced that the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group was being diverted to the area.
The U.S. strike could include missiles and bombs, cyber and special operations on the ground.
The danger of such an attack by the U.S. is that it could provoke the volatile and unpredictable North Korean regime to launch its own blistering attack on its southern neighbor.
"The leadership in North Korea has shown absolutely no sign or interest in diplomacy or dialogue with any of the countries involved in this issue," Victor Cha, the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies told NBC News Thursday.
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Far boi is cray-cray. Trump is crayer ...
Because it just might not be long before the fat pig can launch a nuke as far as our shores.
That, and the fact that South Korea is our ally.
I wonder how many special ops we have in-country right now waiting for the order to pop him.
It would be slightly worse to bomb Seoul; there are 2 million more people there than in NYC. It would be a disaster of epic proportions.
God forbid, if that ever happens, all bets would be off...the civilized world would have no more reason to play games with that inbred dictator. Because their only hostage—South Korea—would have already been killed, metaphorically speaking. There would be nothing to stop the US military from taking out everything that moves in North Korea.
Looks like kim is gonna get a haircut!
You can blame this problem on Bill Clinton and the Russians. Bill provided them with the computers to enrich from industrial to weapons grade in the early 90’s. He further supplied by way of China, and delivered by Hughes and Loral corporations, the Missile Rre-entry Vehicle, (MRV), tracking program so China could bring down their rockets better, and China, in turn, leaked it to North Korea.
Now North Korea can target Japan and Hawaii with Nuclear weapons and hit the locations using missiles that were provided by the Russians. China has and is still sighting the US left coast and has vehicles on the pad with multiple war heads. Thanks Bill.
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Exile seems more than fair.
We like Seoul and have a lot of friends and acquaintances there. It’s such an ultra-modern and civilized city, I can’t imagine how awful it would be.
As is quite common in the West, you're failing to take into account the apocalyptic nature of the mullahs' worldview. They'll do anything to bring about the return of their 12 Imam, and if nuking America ("The Great Satan") or Israel accomplishes that, then they'll unleash what they need to unleash, their personal survival be damned.
KJ Un is a different kettle of fish, obviously. You said that dictators are "generally risk averse," and that is certainly true. Generally. KJ Un isn't typical. He's is quite insane, an therefore quite unpredictable. And he's the only dictator in world history with that resume who ALSO has a nuclear arsenal.
Quick! Send a Tweet to the Pentagon advising them of the possibility!
We can just ask and the Israeli’s will hand us many.
Arkin is a well known hardcore leftist who exposed American nuclear bases and has been affiliated with the Marxist Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) which has had continuing ties to Soviet era “peace fronts”.
Iran and North Korea.
Both have been partners in the development and proliferation of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles .
Immediately prior to the Obama Iran nuclear deal, North Korea made a few breakthroughs nuclear weapon and missile technology that allowed them to proceed past the development phase and enter the production phase.
The breakthrough most likely came via technology transfer from an established nuclear player and Russia is the most likely benefactor.
Production takes big money and access to world wide technology, instrumentation and hardware.
President Obama gave both money and technology to Iran and the media is either unaware or covering up how much Obama moved the ball forward for Iran and North Korea's quest for an offensive nuclear weapons system - both from a funding and technology standpoint..
Both Iran and North Korea are well funded and fast tracking a very credible nuclear weapons and delivery systems program and both are on the cusp of getting a credible offensive nuclear capability, if the don't already have it
North Korea has become the workshop and production facility of the nuclear partnership to avoid sanctions and scrutiny so if you destroy the North Korean program, you cripple the Iranian program for decades especially if you enforce restrictions on Iran.
It is critical we put an end to the North Korea's nuclear program because if we do we put a stop on Irans as well. If either of these countries gets nuclear weapons they will definitely use them as extortion tools, terrorist strikes and probably will use them as offensive weapons.
If they mess with my KDramas, there will be hell to pay.
If they mess with my KDramas, there will be hell to pay.
Exactly, my wife will personally scratch Kim Jong Un’s eyeballs out.
Yep - and there's also such fake stories about the possibility of Trump sending 50K - 150k ground troops to Syria.
If nothing else, it gets the concern trolls worked up.
Drudge ran with this story.
IIRC, Jimma Cotta banned them.
IIRC, the Israelis have a few of them.
Just wow.
The MSM is TRYING to start wars on multiple fronts: Russia, the ME, and North Korea.
Really, I beginning to think that the FBI and Federal Marshals need to start kicking down doors and dragging the folks away.
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