[Caipirabob]

Sadly, the first thing I would find out is if the intelligence asset was a democrat or not.

[Mr. Mojo]

Thanks to Clinton, Bush, and Obama for kicking the radioactive can down the road. Now Trump is forced to clean up this mess.

[Vermont Lt]

This is not going to happen. There is no reason for Kim to go further than whining like a little girl.

[TTFlyer]

Do the NORKS have the targeting co-ords for San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington DC?

[ronnie raygun]

Let us all jail bill Clinton, bush, obama and Hillary for getting us here

[usconservative]

For over two decades and three Presidents (Bill Clinton, G.W. Bush, Barack Obama) North Korea bluffed, extorted, bullied and manipulated its way with three weak Presidents to get to where they are today.

Bill Clinton said his "peace deal" with North Korea would mean a safer United States and that North Korea would completely disarm. That was a lie. Not only was it a lie, his administration transferred much of the technology that the Nork's are using in their guidance systems to China, NK's primary and largest trading partner as well as benefactor.

G.W. Bush said North Korea would never obtain a nuclear weapon, yet did precious little to stop them beyond weak sanctions.

Barack Obama mirrored the Clinton "peace deal" during his administration and claimed the Nork's would disarm and never get a nuclear weapon. Clearly that was a lie too!

So here we are with a Donald J. Trump Presidency and finally we have a President that's standing up to the North Korean bully. Truth be told, anyone who's read the history of the Korean peninsula post WW2 knows there is far more at stake for China than for the United States. The last thing China wants is a North Korea/United States war on its own border. That would mean MILLIONS of refugees flooding its own border, something which China cannot handle.

It would also mean a defeated North Korea turned into occupied US Territory and another ally in Asia on China's own doorstep. They're deathly afraid of losing North Korea to the United States because it would increase our presence and directly challenge them militarily in their own back yard.

The Chinese have lost control of their puppet Kim Jong-un. They cannot or will not reign him back in. I suspect they cannot AND will not because it would mean they have to rebuild North Korea and assume care for millions more when they cannot care for their own people.

It is China that's between a rock and a hard space here, not the United States. North Korea is an out of control puppet. None of this ends well for China no matter how I look at it, again with an understanding of the Korean peninsula post WW2.

It's time to call North Korea and China's bluff, President Trump. That's exactly what he's doing.

[Netz]

Just wait until Iran gets the bomb - they copied the NORK model.

Then, where will all those INTEL reports from the end of the Bush administration saying the Iranians had halted their nuke program be?

Thanks Deep State and Pres. Obama...

[saintgermaine]

The question remains......Is that North Korean dimwit really that stupid and mentally deranged enough to do it and is China displaying their ignorance by not intervening and telling this fool to get a life and cut the crap, unless they don’t care what happens to their biggest trading partner, as their trade certainly would suffer if this dimwit in NK would pull some nuclear stunt. On the other hand maybe it is all political posturing and no one actually plans to do anything, lets hope.

[Politically Correct]

Why do I feel like this is a redux of the Iraq war?
I’m not saying that they aren’t working on one and shouldn’t be. But we could really be stepping in it big time given the state of the rest of the world at this time.

[no-to-illegals]

I no longer am worried about a cremation contract with a funeral director. Yippee!!!

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

So wait for the Hindus to start fighting the Chicoms, and let’s just go ahead and wipe out the North Koreans finally. I’m sick of these people.

[Lazamataz]

Bet you 1,000,000 bitcoins that we have assets in place to knock down any unannounced missile lauch.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The U.S. has sought comfort and a sense of security by denying that North Korea could produce an ICBM, by refusing to accept that North Korea could miniaturize a nuclear warhead, and by consistently highlighting North Korea’s inability to develop a functional re-entry vehicle.

Now we are reduced to "Twump is a meanie who should leave poor Kim Jong Un alone!!!" :)

[jerod]

I hope Jimmah Carter is proud of his legacy... That 1994 agreement has worked out fantastically.

[BlackbirdSST]

The words, US Intel, do not inspire confidence. Deep State.

[jeffc]

Crazy little NK fat boy thinks he can goad Trump into nuking him. Then he’ll cry to the Chinese and Russians and the UN, “He nuked me!!! WHAAAAA!!!”

[Cobra64]

If this report is “confidential,” why are we reading about it? Fake news...

[Georgia Girl 2]

Of course only 50% of their launches get off the pad. :-)

[Moleman]

FAKE NEWS

[DocRock]

Re-entry isn’t needed to pop an EMP over the US.