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Trump orders military advisers to prepare plans to hit North Korea
mirror uk ^

Posted on 04/10/2017 5:02:04 PM PDT by Pollard

President Trump has ordered his military advisers to be ready with a list of options to smash North Korea’s nuclear threat.

One of the advisers, Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster, confirmed his Commander-in-Chief has made the order as a U.S. carrier strike group heads for the region.

It is believed that among the options are combined special forces raids and pre-emptive missile strikes.

One of the problems facing an American-led operation to hit Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong-Un is the intricate tunnel network under the capital.

War-planners have had difficulty mapping out the subterranean complex and believe there are hundreds of underground artillery and airplane sites.

McMaster described the decision to redeploy the USS Carl Vinson to the Sea of Japan as ‘prudent’ given North Korea’s ‘pattern of provocative behavior.’

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


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To: Pollard

I pray we are not looking at bombing NOK. I can’t see that ending well. Shoot down their missiles. More sanctions. Send home all their diplomats and citizens in every country we can persuade to join us. Do not go to military action on the Korea peninsula. You have one of the largest cities in the world within artillary range of thousands of guns that are concealed in heavy bunkers.
I can’t see S Korea going along with it. If China invades them from the north it could then be possible to do something. Short of that we should not initiate military action. I spent a lot of time in Korea doing business from 1971 to 2005. I just cannot see starting s war with them.


21 posted on 04/10/2017 5:13:40 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: conejo99

Yes, that does happen, but I don’t think McMasters would’ve told this to a British paper first...


22 posted on 04/10/2017 5:13:41 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Pollard

The Pentagon used to be all about making plans and filing them, just in case...


23 posted on 04/10/2017 5:13:53 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Pollard

As if we didn’t already have plans to hit North Korea?


24 posted on 04/10/2017 5:14:08 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
"Wouldn’t such actions against North Korea result in restarting the Korean War??"

Not as long as they stay out of South Korea. A surgical strike to take out their nuclear capability wouldn't start a war unless they can fight a Pacific war in retaliation.
25 posted on 04/10/2017 5:14:20 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

This is another contingency plan worked up at the Pentagon. The Pentagon always works on contingency plan.


26 posted on 04/10/2017 5:14:24 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Pollard

I heard a new report a while back about how North Korea has many chemical weapons stored in the mountains within shooting range of Seoul South Korea. Hope they have considered that in their war planning.


27 posted on 04/10/2017 5:15:22 PM PDT by McGruff (You break it, you bought it)
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To: Pollard

Fat kid should have kept his mouth shut. Crank up the heat.

28 posted on 04/10/2017 5:15:30 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Pollard

If true, it’s gotta be a psych job for Kim or maybe China.
Or maybe just trying to get them stirred up while we do surveillance from space?


29 posted on 04/10/2017 5:15:44 PM PDT by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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To: Pollard

30 posted on 04/10/2017 5:16:05 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: americas.best.days...

Cause I remember how much Trump stressed how he believes in giving the enemy fair warning, a heads up and exactly what the strategy will be. /s.


Which means 98 Iranian Mullahs are about to show up missing :)


31 posted on 04/10/2017 5:16:14 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Porobably more likely that China will use the North Korean diversion to go fishing for a bigger fish.


32 posted on 04/10/2017 5:17:40 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It has never ended.


33 posted on 04/10/2017 5:18:03 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: Pollard

MAP OF THE DAY: How North Korean Artillery Could Level Seoul In Two Hours

http://www.businessinsider.com/map-of-the-day-how-north-korea-could-destroy-seoul-in-two-hours-2010-5

My BIL is retired Army Artillery Lt. Col. He tends to believe it.


34 posted on 04/10/2017 5:18:47 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: Pollard

...the intricate tunnel network under the capital....

We lived just outside the north perimeter of Eglin AFB, about 10 miles away from where prototype new bunker buster bombs were tested around 2012.
From what we felt when they detonate, you don’t want to be anywhere near when one of those behemoths go off.


35 posted on 04/10/2017 5:19:47 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I’m pretty confident the U.S. Navy would love to have this guy to take his boats out into the Pacific in a threatening posture. It will be great practice for our guys.


36 posted on 04/10/2017 5:19:58 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: gaijin

I don’t think there is any doubt about who would win.

The question is: How many hundreds of thousands of South Koreans would die?


37 posted on 04/10/2017 5:20:45 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Washington Post is Jeff Bezos' Fake News unregulated SuperPAC.)
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To: Pollard

Neato. We are going to war with Russia AND China, simultaneously.

Way to go, Mr. President. Way. To. Go.

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38 posted on 04/10/2017 5:20:50 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Trump: What to do now I can't repeal Obamacare? I know, lets start a war with Russia!)
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To: DoughtyOne
It would be surprising to me if he hadn’t ordered something like this.

It would be surprising to me if there isn't an office full of people whose only job has been to come up with these plans for years.

39 posted on 04/10/2017 5:20:56 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: Pollard

Believe it or not, the Pentagon has plans to attack the Norks sitting on the shelf.

Just like they have plans to invade Canada.

Just saying

5.56mm


40 posted on 04/10/2017 5:22:52 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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