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U.S. would seek regime change in North Korea if attack occurs
Washington Times ^ | 4/4/13 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 04/04/2013 11:40:47 AM PDT by illiac

The U.S. would oust the communist regime in North Korea if it uses its nuclear weapons or launches an all-out invasion on South Korea and the 28,500 American troops stationed there, national security sources say.

The Obama administration has not articulated such a far-reaching retaliation, even as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un threatens to attack both the South Korean and the U.S. mainland.

But national security sources say it is a common assumption within the Pentagon and U.S. Pacific Command that a full-force attack by Pyongyang would put in place a contingency plan of massive retaliation against the North aimed at bringing down the Stalinist regime. President Obama then would be faced with making the war decision.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoasia; governmentnews; kn08musudan; korea; nkorea; northkorea; regimechange; scarborough; waronterror
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To: fivecatsandadog

And if NK is; their compasses will spin.


81 posted on 04/04/2013 2:14:47 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: hattend
Why can’t we save thousands, if not 100s of thousands, of lives by being proactive?

I know how to save one MILLION a year...

82 posted on 04/04/2013 2:17:08 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: illiac

Well I would hope that is the thinking in the pentagon. You don’t let foreign country’s brutally attack Americans on American soil without staging a massive retaliation.

Congress should get together and issue an deceleration of war against North Korea then order the president to remove Pyongyang & its leader Kim Jong-il from the face of the earth.

I hope the Obama administration is at least finally starting to figure out that they can’t trust North Korea to keep any agreement.


83 posted on 04/04/2013 2:19:16 PM PDT by Monorprise (`)
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To: fivecatsandadog

Exactly. No foreign enemy has to nuke the hell outta us they just burst an EMP and we would destroy ourselves from within with the chaos that would cause.


84 posted on 04/04/2013 2:28:22 PM PDT by eak3
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To: Elsie; Jim Robinson
With today's advanced aiming techniques; there is really not much use for them, except to destroy large parts of a nations population.

Oh, I agree with you and Jim. I just don't think our President or Obama should take anything off the table or show his cards.

85 posted on 04/04/2013 2:46:04 PM PDT by tsowellfan (www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: illiac

This makes no sense. If the baloon goes up with NK, then the regime should/would be either droned or bunker busted to the point that a new regime would be intuitively obvious and required.


86 posted on 04/04/2013 2:49:48 PM PDT by soycd
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To: tsowellfan

O: Bring me my historian
H: Can I help you, Sire?
O: How did the Nation get out of the Great Depression?
H: World War II
O: Sounds good to me!


87 posted on 04/04/2013 3:14:19 PM PDT by Portcall24
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To: illiac

Never mint Korea. They Are mere flies buzzing around Kim Jong dung. Time for regime change HERE.


88 posted on 04/04/2013 3:22:35 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: illiac

The time would be ripe, since the PRC has apparently cut them loose, thereby making remote the threat of a repeat of the last engagement with NK. But it won’t happen, imho. This is scripted posturing on both sides.


89 posted on 04/04/2013 3:23:43 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: illiac

Hmmm. Everybody take a step back and look at where we are: Poor country threatening nukes unless rich country gives it food.

I wonder how we got here.

Put down that book about how people aren’t having enough children and take a little peek at the world.


90 posted on 04/04/2013 3:24:47 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Maringa
China pre-emptively attacks North Korea before NK can do anything and before the US can do anything. China works with S. Korea to unify and support transition N.K. to an indenpendent Korean state. The World claps their hands at China. China and Korea become allies. Unified Korea looks at US and commands us to get our troops out of S. Korea since they decide we are worthless.

I thought of the same thing, but witness the experience of West Germany, and the hit that they took from absorbing East Germany.

Maybe take out the Kim Dynasty, Chinese administration while the North decompresses- with ROK aid and strict border controls.

91 posted on 04/04/2013 3:29:09 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: illiac

This is when we learn about the previously unknown North Korean Muslim Brotherhood faction.


92 posted on 04/04/2013 3:31:54 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: illiac

I agree... Obama would HAVE to go.


93 posted on 04/04/2013 3:35:55 PM PDT by rintense
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To: illiac

Regime change? I thought we were not to interfere with other nations.

Also, where is the Assclown’s column, like the one he wrote after 9/11, asking America to look at WHY we are hated by those who attack us? Assclown was part of the “Blame America first” crowd after 9/11...so by extension, you KNOW he will be among that same crowd if the NORKS attack.


94 posted on 04/04/2013 3:39:47 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: illiac

U.S. would seek regime change in North Korea if attack occurs

Here? or there?

Or both?


95 posted on 04/04/2013 3:40:13 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: illiac

Tong-il! (Reunification)


96 posted on 04/04/2013 4:07:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: illiac
The U.S. would oust the communist regime in North Korea if it uses its nuclear weapons or launches an all-out invasion on South Korea and the 28,500 American troops stationed there, national security sources say.

Why doesn't the Nobel Peace Prize Kenyan Marxist Homosexual make a statement to that effect?

Maybe the great one works behind the scenes community organizing some homosexual Koreans for a Korean Spring?

97 posted on 04/04/2013 4:13:39 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: illiac

Little late to seek regime change after the event happens. Besides who among us thinks the Loser in Chief has the fortitude to do anything like that?


98 posted on 04/04/2013 4:38:15 PM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: illiac

We should be moving heavy forces to the region, including carrier battle groups, F-22’s to Japan, B-2/B-1/B-52’s to Guam and an additional 100,000 troops (some to Korea, others to Japan). We also should tell Russia and China that any interference on North Korea’s behalf would be cause to initiate a nuclear strike on their countries.

Also, we should be increasing our presence near Iran to deter them from getting too froggy.


99 posted on 04/04/2013 5:20:08 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: illiac
Maybe we could install the Muzlim Bro'hood. Any Muzzies in NoKo?

(Didn't think so....)

100 posted on 04/04/2013 5:25:51 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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