Posted on 08/02/2017 7:05:13 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korean leader should not be sleeping easily: McMaster
2017/08/03
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should not be sleeping easily at night, President Trump's national security adviser said Wednesday as he addressed the regime's missile and nuclear programs.
In an interview with MSNBC, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster also said the North's recent tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles pose a "grave" threat regardless of how far in the U.S. mainland they can reach.
"No, I think he should not be because he has the whole world against him, right?" McMaster said when asked whether Kim should be sleeping easily. "He's isolated on this."
The lieutenant general described the North Korean leader as being as brutal as his father and grandfather, former leaders Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung.
"But he's doing some things differently. He's killing members of his own family even," McMaster said, apparently referring to the killing of his estranged half-brother Kim Jong-nam in February.
Asked if the current leader's removal would change Pyongyang's provocative behavior, he replied, "I'm not sure about that. I don't think anybody has a very clear picture of the inner workings of that regime."
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Cernovich went on a tear last night about MacMaster. Lots of it got deleted, but not all.
http://web.archive.org/web/20170802041318/https:/twitter.com/Cernovich/status/89259
“Bill Kristol, Susan Rice praise McMaster’s addition, call on him to get rid of Bannon-led group”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/20/susan-rice-urges-hr-mcmaster-get-rid-stephen-banno/
–“In 2012, McMaster gave a speech praising Obama’s foreign policy and Middle East interventions” https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/852712705614106625
Talk about Fake News.
There are a lot of people who talk big about Kim Jong Un and then just hope he has his well deserved coronary. Every other option is loaded with serious negatives like, “What do you do when you win?”
The big problem may very well be having to deal with millions of Norks streaming over the borders into China and South Korea, which is a situation both countries dread.
McLeftist needs to sleep the same way.
Should be contrasted with "What do you do when you don't win?" "Not winning" will lead to a greatest strategic setback in decades.Many rogue nations are emboldened to pursue nuclear weapons in a bid to become a big player on their own right. Allies will go their way to protect themselves.
Trump allies who work for McMaster shouldn’t be sleeping too easy as well.
Another Obama loyalist somehow working for Trump.
I imagine you are right, TGR.
OTOH, the thought of Kim Jong-un tossing and turning is pretty nice.
Or not... :(
We all need to pray at this dangerous time.
Topic for discussion:
Kim is totally paranoid and with good reason. Control of all in North Korea is from Kim and then down. Those below him live in fear at all times. None below him from Generals to Privates will take independent action. All action descends from the word of Kim least you die.
If one cruise missile took out Kim would it be war or would North Korea descend into internal chaos. Each and every citizen of North Korea lives in abject fear of Kim, even the farmer in the field. It might be worth a shot! One must realize he is most insane and will one day launch nukes at South Korea, or Japan or the USA.
The military of North Korea will obey Kim’s orders so long as they are in fear of Kim. They would unleash hell on South Korea if ordered. This hell would be stopped by tactical nuclear weapons which we would drop on North Korea.
Kim is insane. It would be far better to take him out now than later. Later (5 to 10 years) he could inflict real damage on our allies and the United States. Today he can inflict moderate damage, maybe a million dead. In ten years he can kill many millions and some of those millions will be us.
We must kill Kim. We must kill him soon. The risks of killing him now are far less than not killing him.
Russia nor China would go to nuclear war with us over this. Russia can destroy us as we can destroy them. China can hurt us badly but not destroy us. Neither would not respond to an attack on Kim.
As Russia took the Crimea two years ago we did not respond. To respond would have eventually went to nuclear war. Putin knew this and took Crimea. Putin also knows to do the same with a NATO country will lead to nuclear war. He will not attack a NATO nation.
Looks like we’re stuck with yet another day of McMaster sabotaging the Trump administration. Wonder how much damage he’ll be able to do today? Also wonder why he’s not been fired yet!!
....”Control of all in North Korea is from Kim and then down. Those below him live in fear at all times. None below him from Generals to Privates will take independent action”.....
I wouldn’t be so sure about who is really in control...or that none would take any action if things got too heated.
According to a former regime insider who was one of Kim Jong Il’s favorite propagandists the apparatus of the totalitarian system that supports FatBoy is “The Organization and Guidance Department”, or OGD....if indeed it still operates under that same name.
The point is Kim inherited his fathers old boy network which over time he , as his father did, has outed many of them and has his own group now. As long as the revenue and gifts continue to flow to them they will support Fatboy....
Further it’s questionable how long China will sustain Fatboy......they may very well take him out themselves and bring in their own people.
Lots of variables with how long Fatboy will be at his post....I tend to think short order unless he stops his nuclear program...which none of the Kims have done.
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