Posted on 03/17/2017 3:19:57 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Military action against North Korea 'option on the table': US Secretary of State Tillerson
SEOUL - United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday (March 17) military action against North Korea is an option if push comes to shove, as he signalled that the long-maintained US policy of "strategic patience" with the nuclear-armed state is over.
"Certainly we do not want things to get to military conflict, but if they elevate the threat of their weapons programme to a level that we believe requires action, then that option is on the table," he said at a joint press conference with South Korea's Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se on Friday (March 17).
“The policy of strategic patience has ended,” Tillerson said. “We are exploring a new range of diplomatic, security, economic measures. All options are on the table.”
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“optionon the table”
Of Course it needs to be on the table. You don’t need to tell them if it is option “1” or option “13.” Keep them guessing, BUT DON’T ever take it off the table. As I onve was taught, “a should never be predictable.”
As I’ve said before, as long as lil Kim is happy and fat, we might not have much to worry about. But if/when his health fails, or he thinks his situation is desperate enough, he might cause a LOT of problems. He cares nothing about his starving people, only about himself, and might just decide to go out with a bang. And while each president has pushed this problem to the future, the Norks have further developed their nuclear weapons. And even a poorly aimed nuke or two could do a lot of damage.
Factually how is NK a threat to US?
China is preparing to import huge amounts of natural gas through pipelines from Siberia, part of that US$400 billion, 30-year deal with Russia to import natural gas (and possibly eventually crude oil). China wants to phase out burning coal to generate electric power, replaced by far cleaner-burning natural gas-fired power plants.
The only way I would agree to those terms is if the chicoms guarantee the pot belly dog eater and his family are gone and the Norks stand down a significant portion of their military.
Just because you have a hammer (or lots of hammers) doesn't mean you have to use it for the job at hand. I imagine our military leaders have worked out scenarios aplenty that don't use nuclear strikes, at least early on in a preemptive attack.
Get the Chinese on board to not interfere, via trade-offs elsewhere. Begin raining salvos of non-nuclear missiles from ships off-shore, after ensuring NK subs are contained via nets or mines. Inform NK that any firing of missiles towards us or our allies (including Seoul) will be met with ever more intense reprisals. Ratchet up the action daily. If, and only if, NK fires a nuclear missile would we retaliate with multiple nuclear strikes - but that should be a last option.
All the above is highly dependent on Chinese cooperation. Who knows if President Trump can strike a deal with the Chinese to cooperate.
tell me, is it difficult living the life of a coward?
Not wanting a nuclear war is not an act of a coward. Extreme bravado on the other hand ...
Ad hominum attacks are another matter.
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