[Steel Wolf]

But it doesn't mean we have no options. A steel fist doesn't necessarily mean mounting an invasion. There are less overt ways to take direct action, and I suspect those will start soon. I'm thinking things like infiltration teams for assassinations and sabotage -- and Li'l Kim's fuzzy head on a platter. Take out the regime, and the rest of NK will roll over.

Those are options that aren't on the table. Assassination of foreign leaders is illegal, and the U.S. won't engage in it. Period. Full stop.

While regime change would solve our problems, it's simply not an operational possibility. Especially when that regime has nuclear weapons. A decapitating strike that misses would invite retaliation, possibly of a 'legacy killing' type.

Testing a nuclear weapon is the single greatest thing Kim Jong Il ever did to stabilize his regime. We won't dare lay a hand on him now.

[r9etb]

Those are options that aren't on the table. Assassination of foreign leaders is illegal, and the U.S. won't engage in it. Period. Full stop.

Ahhhhh, grasshopper .. you forget which country lives next door to NK. The US doesn't have to engage in it. Semicolon; go on with the sentence.

[WoofDog123]

" Assassination of foreign leaders is illegal, and the U.S. won't engage in it. Period. Full stop."

obviously information is extremely limited and some of it conflicting, but the train explosion some time back was suspicious if nothing else for the timing vs. dear leader's passage through that area.

[cva66snipe]

Those are options that aren't on the table. Assassination of foreign leaders is illegal, and the U.S. won't engage in it. Period. Full stop.

It was made illegal by E.O. of Bush mentor Jerry Ford and later Carter. It is only an E.O. and can be rescinded.