Posted on 09/07/2017 4:46:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
If the U.S. pre-emptively attacks North Korea, Seoul, the capital of South Korea, and other places in Asia might get blasted in retaliation, but America will have knocked out North Korea's nuclear capability. Right?
Wrong – at least in the opinion of a U.S. senior intelligence consultant who worked on a secret study of North Korea's nuclear program for the government and disagrees with widespread intelligence opinion, echoed by the press, that there are no viable options for dealing with North Korea's nuclear threat except negotiations.
Dwight R. Rider, 30 years a targeting specialist for the U.S. with a master's degree from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), says the reason the U.S. intelligence community (I.C.) says negotiation is the only option is that the I.C. rejected the study his group made that identified hidden nuclear facilities and weapons in North Korea and now realizes they don't know where to target. Thus, in their minds, any pre-emptive attack might have only minimal effect on North Korea's capability and leave the rogue state with plenty of retaliation options.
Rider is so worried about the U.S. making wrong decisions regarding what to do about the North Korean threat that he's decided to go public, including writing a letter to President Trump and other officials he thinks might be able to influence Trump's actions.
"It is unlikely that long-standing issues between North Korea and the U.S. can be resolved through negotiation," Rider writes in the letter to the president. "Any effort to force North Korea" to bow to outside pressure "means regime change." That's not acceptable to North Korea, he says. Therefore, "some level of force may be necessary."
The problem is, he charges, that U.S. targeters don't have good information, and any strike deemed necessary might thus be impotent, inviting retaliation
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The navy can’t drive ships and the intel community can’t figure out North Korea. Wow. We are not war ready. That means we are sitting ducks.
Well, gol-eee Gomer, I guess we should all be whipping out our white flags to surrender to that great power, North Korea. /s
Yet the IC has plenty of resources to throw at swamping Trump before he reforms them (including the self inflicted McMaster and his minions).
No one doubts we can wipe out NK. The question is the cost.
We let them get to the point where there is a real cost to this, to us, Japan and South Korea.
You can thank that arrogant pos former occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave for it.
Isn’t that what the author is saying?
Well being engaged in military action of one sort of another for 26 years a midst ever shrinking budgets and social standards tends to do that to a nation.
why wait..... so the risk can get greater...???
wht was that oil filter commercial.... PAY ME NOW OR PAY ME LATER
He should take his information to the Japanese. They have the most to lose.
So let me see if I understand this. We can’t evacuate Seoul to remove them as hostages to Kim because we can’t evacuate that many people. But we can evacuate the entire state of Florida because a hurricane is a week away. Am I missing something?
What about China?
um.. if we did preemptively attack NK... they wouldn’t be doing any attacking, because they would all be dead.
Best 2 options...
1) Coup
2) Assassination
It is ..
No amount of negotiations or sanctions will stop little Kim. He is bat shit crazy. The best scenarios are some type of coup taking him out and replacing him with a more rational regime or he goes totally nuts and fires missiles armed or unarmed toward the US or our forces and we deal a crushing blow to N Korea
When it comes to running this state, the deep state is intimately knowledgeable. When it comes to our national security as it relates to what our adversaries are REALLY doing, the deep state is a collective idiot.
We’re going to have to kill a lot of people. I don’t think we’re up to it.
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