Mattis warns North Korea to stop actions that would 'lead to end of regime'

Everyone is getting whipped up by the media and Trump’s tweets, calm down. This hysteria is nonsense and downright dangerous.

Too many headline readers are completely ignorant of the NK capabilities. NK must be having a big laugh at all our headlines.

The most powerful NK missile, only in theory, could reach about Kansas City, with no payload bigger than a jar of kimchee.

They would have to have another missile stage added on to provide more fuel in boost.

Their best missiles so far are all “truck” launched. They don’t have a truck big enough for a bigger missile. If they did, a bigger heavier missile would get damaged joyriding around NK.

They would have to go to a silo launch with onsite liquid fueling. That’s what every other nuclear power does that wants nukes delivered.

NK has no silos, if they did we would know. Also, all of their orbital apogee missiles have burned up on re-entry, they don’t have adequate heat shields, yet.

Let’s all calm down.

It's worth repeating...Trump AND Gen Mattis are professionals not man-children like the prior administration. They don't signal their intent before taking action.

Before the Trump Administration makes ANY move, they have a plan that is 3-4 steps ahead of the competition, be it CNN or Hillary or North Korea.

So, for a moment, imagine the NK Leader eating with his generals. One of them drops dead. A few moments later, another one drops dead. Rinse and repeat over a week. Then, Kim Jong-un wakes from a bad night's sleep to this...

This is almost no different from the military head games Reagan ran around the Soviets in the early 1980s. It was brutally effective, without a shot being fired.

"Sometimes we would send bombers over the North Pole and their radars would click on," recalls Gen. Jack Chain, [a] former Strategic Air Command commander. "Other times fighter-bombers would probe their Asian or European periphery." During peak times, the operation would include several maneuvers in a week. They would come at irregular intervals to make the effect all the more unsettling. Then, as quickly as the unannounced flights began, they would stop, only to begin again a few weeks later.

Yea, if we go psyops, we will still get rhetoric from NK and his people remain under tyranny. However, there will be NO more missile tests (he can take a hint, and I suspect news of how that new guy in DC operates will reach China pretty fast) and NK is now neutralized.

We should keep the MOAB at the ready...pacifism won't work.

To finish the job, maybe have some Voice of America broadcasts into NK to encourage the good people of North Korea to do a Ceaușescu on lil' Kim.

Are you suggesting we wait for all those elements to be in place before we act forcefully?

Or before we notify them of the consequences of developing a nuclear strike threat to the US mainland?

No. We should confront this situation now. And we should do so stridently and clearly.

Remember, Iran and others are watching.

We are acting forcefully, short of shooting at them.

The sanctions are going to hurt, but they take time.

We are rapidly building up an anti-missile interceptor ring around NK. Let’s perfect that, see what happens.

Lat but not least, why not vaporize the USS Pueblo? It’s our property, give them 24 hours to give it back or bomb it.

NK is more impulsive than we are, let’s play our cards from strength.

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