Posted on 08/10/2017 11:49:58 AM PDT by jazusamo
U.S. military strategists at the Pentagon have a military solution in place to address the growing threat emanating from North Korea, but they are holding their fire in favor of ongoing diplomatic efforts by Washington and its allies, Defense Secretary James Mattis said Thursday.
The Pentagon chief remained largely mum on the details of that military solution, which theoretically would curb Pyongyang’s efforts to develop a nuclear-capable, ballistic missile arsenal, except to say any military option would be a multilateral one involving a number of regional powers in the Pacific.
“Do I have military options? Of course, I do. That’s my responsibility, to have those. And we work very closely with allies to ensure that this is not unilateral either … and of course there’s a military solution,” Mr. Mattis told reporters en route to meet with senior leaders in the technology sector in Seattle and California.
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Why use our assets at all?
Make the Russians and the Chinese take him out. They created that insanity back in the 40s, they can clean it up.
(Of course, it will take some persuasion on Trump’s part)
I think it may be too late for that. What I think would have worked is if Obama had posed a credible military threat. He should have told the Chinese and the Russians that we might have to take out NK, and that if we decided to do so, then we would give them a 3 minute warning just to make sure they did not misunderstand what was happening. Then we add to the tenseness by moving equipment into position to actually do it. Do it quietly so that they see it but don’t think we know they are seeing it. Fake intelligence passed back in forth detailing what we are planning and the logic behind it, all leaked inconspicuously. Move troops to make them think we’re getting ready for an attack. Of course, it would all be a bluff. Maybe it ends with us trying to take out Kim’s airplane by planting plastik on it with a drone, and then pretending that we had nothing to do with it. But the idea would be to get the Chinese to do the dirty work, not us.
All too late now, though.
Sinking those ballistic missile mounted subs may be more difficult. Take those out with Vircators.
A two-minute conversation with Mattis would have Fatboi peeing down his leg
Every sub the Norklandians have can be heard from 100 miles away.
The instant they move.
“and of course there’s a military solution,” Mr. Mattis told reporters en route to meet with senior leaders in the technology sector in Seattle and California.”
Ahh. Finally a voice of reason.
“When he launches his missiles at Guam”
He’ll more likely send his missiles towards Japan.
There’s historical animosity and Japan is nearby and densely populated.
At this stage, he’s got everything he needs except accuracy.
I guess US intelligence was too busy chasing DNC server hackers.
Hopefully, Kim can still be taken out by non-nuclear means.
lol do their props grate their cages
“You have to have his army turn on him and take him out themselves.”
That’s the best solution.
The North Korean military officers need to understand their greatest risk is not acting when they can.
This is nuts!
We cannot allow NK to fire at/near our troops in Guam! Trump should advise: Unreasonable risk;Missiles will be shot down by US. imo
“we work very closely with allies to ensure that this is not unilateral either”
It’s time for a serious Chinese-Korean chat.
How do you know if it’s armed?
“I am sure Russia and China will have some thing to input
Neither want to look like inconsequential observers
And there is the real problem for Trump”
Russia (especially) and China will not choose to have a war with the US over North $hitholestan. Russia really has nothing much to do with them, and the ideologically reasons for helping NK got buried along with the Soviet Union. China is a one-trick pony - it is ALL about exports. They want to go toe-to-toe with us...fine, that’d be an interesting contest (which I think we’d win, btw)...but China’s exports to the US will drop to the 2016 level of buggy-whip sales - overnight. Also, those roughly $1 trillion of our bonds that they own? Gone with a single signature by Trump.
Nah, they’re not going to mess with us for that fat bastard...especially not when he’s directly threatening our territory.
Oh, and you did notice, didn’t you, that the Russkies and Chinese voted for some pretty harsh sanctions against the Norks? They wouldn’t have done that if they gave a bucket of warm spit about Kim or his whole POS country.
“This POTUS has the will to pull the trigger without regard to the interests of Japan and SKorea.”
Kim is crazy and getting more dangerous by the month.
Unfortunately, Obama failed to do his job.
Hopefully, Kim’s generals will take him out before Kim has them neutralized by lead.
“He’s asking himself right now: Can these guys REALLY get a nuke to the US mainland?”
The North Koreans can probably get a nuke to the USA, but probably only to a rural place. There’s probably only a 1/50 chance of hitting a built-up suburb and a 1/200 chance of hitting a US city.
The fallout will raise food prices.
That’s why I think the best thing is to divide North Korea into four zones of Occupation between the US, Russia, China and South Korea, to ease the transition to Reunification.
And part of that of agreement is that Korea is to be neutral, and US forces withdraw from the peninsula. Basically what we did with Austria after WWII.
In addition to preempting the launch of the missiles, we should sink his entire navy. Everything that floats.
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While we’re at it, let’s “repo” the Pueblo and tow it back home. That will humiliate the little bastard.
That is a fact. Take those subs out with Vircators. They will fry the sub’s electronics as well as the missiles and warheads. Then we could pull that useless hardware up and check it over. It would be useful to see where it was really made and go after the nations who helped.
How good are these missile defenses? 99%? 75%? 50%?
Cuz, unless we shoot down all of the missiles, it's bad PR for us, because it makes us look vulnerable to even a small country's nuclear attack.
High PR risk in both directions.
Also, wouldn't we be giving away a lot about their capabilities, as they would surely be tracked?
I’m not sure a military solution is 100% sure of success.
Kim will be vapor, but so will others be.
The South Koreans probably should pull their civilians from the border area and ban traffic towards Seoul if North Koreans cross the DMZ.
A nuclear bomb in a truck is probably the most reliable NK delivery system.
The South Koreans, Japanese and ourselves need to worry about bomb delivery by NK marine vessels.
Uh, microwaves don’t penetrate water...
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