Posted on 01/02/2018 6:32:37 PM PST by blam
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper gave sobering assessment of North Korea's efforts to advance its nuclear and missile capabilities during an interview with CNN on Tuesday.
"That train left station a long time ago," Clapper said of North Korea's willingness to halt its weapons program. "The North Koreans are not going to denuclearize."
Clapper's comments stood in contrast to a fiery warning from the US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who said on Tuesday that the US would not take talks between South Korea and North Korea seriously after South Korea proposed holding high-level talks between the two nations at the North-South Korean border.
"We won't take any of the talks seriously if they don't do something to ban all nuclear weapons in North Korea," Haley said during a press conference Tuesday. "We consider this to be a reckless regime, we don't think we need a Band-Aid and we don't think we need to smile and take a picture."
"So North Korea can talk with anyone they want but the US is not going to recognize it or acknowledge it until they agree to ban the nuclear weapons that they have," Haley continued.
north korea missile An intermediate-range ballistic missile test in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) May 22, 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS
South Korea's willingness to negotiate with North Korea came after the annual New Year's Day speech given by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un who, according to Reuters, said that he was "open to dialogue" with South Korea, which is set to host the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
But Kim Jong Un's remarks also accompany new reports that North Korea may be staging another missile test in the coming days, military officials told NBC News.
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James Clapper, lying shack of sit.
And exactly why, Mr. Clapper, should we listen to you ?
The U.S. is building an empire. We’d probably allow North Korea to have all the nuclear weapons they want ... as long as they adopt the U.S. dollar as their reserve currency.
Jesus...
This bum should be either exiled or in prison.
An Intel head who is for sale needs to be made to disappear!
It is stupid of the US not to accept NOKO’s nuclear capability. It is guaranteed that NK will never voluntarily give up its ICBMs and/or nukes. The US has now painted itself into a corner and the only way out is by the use of force. Are we willing to use force and have we convinced NK that we will?
Shouldn’t that be “Treasonous Obama co-conspirator” James Clapper?
YES!
It BOGGLES the mind that there is an investigation of Trump after THOUSANDS of laws and maybe HUNDREDS of lives were broken and taken by the obama regime, with the clinton allies.
I’m sorry. There SHOULD be some kind of qualification to vote. Basic IQ test or something. I dont know.
Clapper is living proof that in government many times crap does indeed float to the top.
What a diaper load of Clapper Crap.
And what did Clapper do about this?
Kiss Obama’s red ass?
Why isn’t this idiot in a cell?
Why can’t we put a laser beam right between Rocket Man’s eyes?
Bttt!
This depends on what is meant by “voluntarily”. And we are far from being in a corner.
While it may appear that the US and S. Korea are at odds over approach, I believe this is really just “good cop / bad cop” to give the norks an “out”, as the Norks oil is cut off. Despite the ship to ship transfers that have occurred, those are insufficient to supply the North, and should diminish to a trickle with the light of day now on them. Kimmy can’t get far without petro...
Further, North Korea acquiring nukes cannot be allowed to stand, nor Iran allowed to acquire nukes. It’s bad enough that Pakistan and India gained them (tho’ almost impossible to prevent, especially in India’s case.) But at least S. Africa and Ukraine dropped out of the club, and neither Pak or India routinely threatens others with annihilation or engage in blackmail. Allowing N. Korea or Iran to continue sends a message that we cannot prevent ANYONE from going nuclear, and both are in regions that surely will, in response: S. Korea, Japan, possibly Taiwan, Vietnam is not actually out of the question, Saudi Arabia... Who knows who else might feel threatened and join in, in 10 - 20 years.
This is a GUARANTEE of disaster in the next 50 years or so, one that might well not involve N. Korea at all.
Trump’s bad cop “big button” tweet has libs all aflutter, but it is the right move / sends the right message: We will use whatever force is needed, if need be. “No oil” might do the trick.
Right on!!!
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