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Senators Told North Korea Nuclear Threat Is Urgent
freebeacon.com ^ | 04/26/2017 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 04/26/2017 3:46:40 PM PDT by rxsid

"Senators Told North Korea Nuclear Threat Is Urgent
BY: Bill Gertz - April 26, 2017 5:57 pm

The Senate took part in a rare White House briefing on Wednesday to hear what senior leaders described as "an urgent national security threat" posed by North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.

The hour-long secret session for all senators was held at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, and included a brief appearance from President Trump who made short, introductory remarks.

Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also took part in the session. His presence is an indication that military options for dealing with North Korea likely were discussed. "
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/senators-told-north-korea-nuclear-threat-urgent/

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; gertz; nknukes; nkthreat; northkorea; nuclearthreat; senators; trump; trumpasia; trumpnkthreat; whsenatemeeting
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To: GOPJ

What would we do without our elites?


41 posted on 04/27/2017 2:36:53 AM PDT by Theophilus (Repent)
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To: GOPJ

/// If norks do an emp - private jets (filled with unprotected chips) - could crash... ///

Don’t say things like that... I might almost feel sad... I mean I might actually get a tear in my eye... especially if I get dust in my eye.


42 posted on 04/27/2017 5:44:40 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: Theophilus

Yup, NK is a wholly owned subsidiary of PRC, Inc. So WTH is China up to? Are they suggesting they’ve lost control of their creature? If so, I don’t buy it.


43 posted on 04/27/2017 5:47:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: rxsid

If I was a Nork, I’d be targeting Pearl Harbor, Long Beach, San Diego, the tar sands area in west Canada and the oil infrastructure in Alaska, and maybe a few nuclear reactors in California.

But then again, I’m not a Nork, and I doubt they’d be that savvy.


44 posted on 04/27/2017 5:48:56 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: mewzilla

Maybe they want us to do their dirty work.


45 posted on 04/27/2017 5:50:15 AM PDT by Theophilus (Repent)
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To: Theophilus

Exactly,China will achieve its goal, to install a pawn in NK &control it, after it allows fat boy to wipe out SK


46 posted on 04/27/2017 5:56:18 AM PDT by wiseone (india,)
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To: mewzilla; Theophilus

I’m no expert on North Korea, but I do understand how cloistered political leaders can get and what that can lead to.

China probably lost a lot of influence over NK due to the fact that this mad dictator only surrounds himself with ‘yes’ men.


47 posted on 04/27/2017 5:59:23 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Ever since Civil War, DNC = terrorists: KKK, black panthers; muslim refugees, BLM ...)
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To: Theophilus

Interesting thought! FWIW, I’ve always assumed the PRC would have someone, maybe more than one, in Junior’s close proximity, should Junior wander off the rez. I can’t see what the PRC would lose if caught whacking their own guy. A) Nobody likes Junior, except possibly the PRC. B) What is anybody who might object gonna do, arrest the Politburo? I’m confused as heck as to what anyone is getting out of this Sturm und Drang.


48 posted on 04/27/2017 6:07:37 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

FWIW, I should think the PRC has people well positioned to remove Junior, should the need arise. I would.


49 posted on 04/27/2017 6:08:58 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Mr. M.J.B.
Nothing is as it appears. The narrative is the narrative.

Confusion and fear rule (and bad things happen) when people won't trust an obviously Divine process.

Geula (גאולה) = 45, the sum of all the single digits.

"Ten" (עשר) is right around the corner. See the visual pun on Esau (עשו) - what needs to happen to him (his name) in order for him to be rectified, to become truly (spiritually) wealthy, from רשע to עשו , עושר to עשר.

He needs a new head, established in the right place. Kind of like the effect that Joseph had on Egypt and the rest of the known world.

Redemption has a habit of appearing to come suddenly, out of nowhere.

50 posted on 04/27/2017 7:51:28 AM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: ASA Vet

How many in the intelligence community are actually agents of the Socialist Democrat party of America?

Probably, too many!


51 posted on 04/27/2017 8:02:49 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ("Fake news is just another name for slander or libel, and should be prosecuted."!!!)
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To: wiseone
"...after it allows fat boy to wipe out SK"

A possibility indeed. A severely damaged/weakened SK economy might benefit China's economy.

52 posted on 04/27/2017 8:26:56 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Mariner
It makes you wonder why Fat Kim thinks he can get away with it.

Does the name Hussein Obama ring a bell?


53 posted on 04/27/2017 8:35:14 AM PDT by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama did)
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To: ASA Vet

Good question. I attended what was supposed to be a classified briefing on global national security threats yesterday. It was given by a Harvard PhD who is a former Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council.

The briefing was scheduled for an hour and the guy spent 15-20 minutes talking about “climate change”. I’ll concede that junk science, like junk analysis, is definitely a threat to national security, but climate change...?

Guess he forgot that Ash Carter isn’t SecDef anymore.


54 posted on 04/27/2017 11:52:44 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: baltimorepoet

It is unlikely that they currently have enough nukes and missiles that can reach that far. Indeed I doubt if they launched against us now that they would have more than a few most of which would fall into the sea, the rest of which we have a good chance of shooting down with Bush’s missile defense system.

Realistically thou we have already passed the point where we can confidently protect our States 4 to 6 years ago, and are in the next 4 to 6 years going to pass the point where we can protect much of our country at all from North Korea’s Nuclear blackmail.

That said as long as the regime fears our nuclear retaliation they are not likely to press the button that will end in their own destruction until such time that they are collapse otherwise. Unfortunately for north Korea that is a almost constant compassion due to incompetent Communist leadership which the government attempts to forestall by blackmailing its neighbors for external materiel support.

Its hard to imagine them not using the nukes as a bargaining chip effectively making us a tributary state or just selling them to a terrorist for cash to keep themselves afloat longer, all the while they build more.


55 posted on 04/27/2017 9:27:31 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: ASA Vet

In reply:
How many in the State Department are actually agents of the Socialist Democrat party of America?


56 posted on 05/02/2017 2:47:53 PM PDT by Yulee (Village of Albion)
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To: DannyTN

“The vehicles towing the missiles in NK recent parades were Chinese vehicles.”


Are the vehicles relatively new?


57 posted on 05/02/2017 2:50:10 PM PDT by Yulee (Village of Albion)
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