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'Forget It': Bolton Says US Running Out Of Diplomatic Options With North Korea
Fox News Insider ^ | 11-29-2017

Posted on 11/29/2017 1:18:33 PM PST by blam

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said today that the diplomatic options are running out after North Korea fired a new kind of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

The rogue dictator Kim Jong Un boasted that the Hwasong-15 can be armed with a nuclear warhead and could strike the U.S. mainland.

The ICBM was fired at 2:48 a.m. local time on Wednesday, the regime said, traveling 596 miles and demonstrating the potential to reach a range of 8,100 miles.

Bolton said this test-launch is "significant" because, if the early estimates are confirmed, it leaves no doubt that Pyongyang is "getting very close" to being able to threaten the United States with a nuclear attack.

"You have to ask when we're going to start seriously considering a military option," he said on "Outnumbered Overtime."

Bolton said he does not foresee "dramatic action" by China, leaving the Trump administration with a "binary choice": use military force to destroy the nuclear program or accept a nuclear-armed North Korea being able to target any U.S. city it wants.

Harris Faulkner asked whether a new round of financial sanctions could make an impact at this stage.

"Forget it. There is no time for this to have impact," Bolton responded.

(snip)

(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bolton; china; missles; nkmissiles; nknukes; nkoutofcontrol; northkorea; nuclear; proliferation; trumpasia
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1 posted on 11/29/2017 1:18:34 PM PST by blam
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Maybe a north korean nuke could be set to go off by accident in an inconvenient place for them. Maybe in ten years we’ll have the tech to pull that off. Just keep stalling until then.


2 posted on 11/29/2017 1:21:42 PM PST by CMB_polarization
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Col. Shaffer: North Korea Missile Test 'Poked China In The Eye'
3 posted on 11/29/2017 1:21:46 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

how would it go? warn them on late on a sunday evening and then hit their nuke manufacturing facilities one hour later with blockbusters?


4 posted on 11/29/2017 1:26:32 PM PST by SteveH
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To: blam

I’m old enough to remember the Soviet pilots in the MIGs flying for the North Koreans. I’m suspicious of the origins of Rocket Man’s missiles.


5 posted on 11/29/2017 1:26:32 PM PST by ryderann
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To: blam

In the good old days, the CIA would clean up this mess.


6 posted on 11/29/2017 1:26:35 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: blam

"We're sending someone in to negotiate."

"Anyone else want to negotiate?"


7 posted on 11/29/2017 1:26:47 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: blam
Call obama back so he can show us how to draw a dozen red lines.

8 posted on 11/29/2017 1:28:17 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill: NFL, Hollywood, NBA, BLM, CAIR, Antifa, SPLC, CNN, ESPN, NPR, TWITTER, FACEBOOK)
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To: blam

Still scratchin my head why most of the rest of the world is mostly silent on this.
Is Korea still a U.N. mission ?


9 posted on 11/29/2017 1:30:35 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.Ever.)
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To: blam

One, just ONE, thermonuclear tipped missile could wipe out the entire command structure of NK in a few seconds...........................


10 posted on 11/29/2017 1:33:00 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: blam

For the life of me, I can’t understand why
Bolton is not part of this administration.


11 posted on 11/29/2017 1:33:29 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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I’m old enough to remember the Soviet pilots in the MIGs flying for the North Koreans.

Same same in Nam.

12 posted on 11/29/2017 1:34:53 PM PST by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
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To: blam

2 choices , bomb them or Obama’s way Surrender


13 posted on 11/29/2017 1:35:12 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: blam

Don’t we have a capability of shooting down anything they can put up?


14 posted on 11/29/2017 1:36:29 PM PST by onedoug
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To: blam

Here is a highly interesting 11 minute video assessment of the NK ICBM capabilities on WSJ. They are saying it’s a done deal, is my take on the presentation.
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/moving-upstream/north-korea-decoders-are-sounding-alarms-moving-upstream/68A62B40-08CF-4DD4-B366-91781FE17247?mod=trending_now_video_3


15 posted on 11/29/2017 1:37:14 PM PST by matthew fuller (Out with Jeff- In with Rudy!)
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To: sparklite2

AMEN to that. Maybe if Ivanka were sent somewhere else, They would have room for Bolton.


16 posted on 11/29/2017 1:40:35 PM PST by matthew fuller (Out with Jeff- In with Rudy!)
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To: matthew fuller

Good point. There aren’t that many experienced, competent good folks around that we can afford to waste them by sitting on the sidelines.


17 posted on 11/29/2017 1:43:15 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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Suppose that put up ten. Nine phonies and one nuke.
How many can you shoot down, and which one is real?


18 posted on 11/29/2017 1:44:58 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: DannyTN

“Where did he learn how to negotiate?”


19 posted on 11/29/2017 1:46:33 PM PST by oldvirginian ("Let others have the present. The future is mine."--Nikola Tesla)
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To: sparklite2
Bolton has been immersed in The Swamp for years.

Also, he never met a war he didn't want someone else to fight.

Good riddance to that jerk. I was thrilled when he was passed over for the U.S. Secretary of State post.

20 posted on 11/29/2017 1:48:48 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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