Posted on 11/29/2017 1:18:33 PM PST by blam
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said today that the diplomatic options are running out after North Korea fired a new kind of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
The rogue dictator Kim Jong Un boasted that the Hwasong-15 can be armed with a nuclear warhead and could strike the U.S. mainland.
The ICBM was fired at 2:48 a.m. local time on Wednesday, the regime said, traveling 596 miles and demonstrating the potential to reach a range of 8,100 miles.
Bolton said this test-launch is "significant" because, if the early estimates are confirmed, it leaves no doubt that Pyongyang is "getting very close" to being able to threaten the United States with a nuclear attack.
"You have to ask when we're going to start seriously considering a military option," he said on "Outnumbered Overtime."
Bolton said he does not foresee "dramatic action" by China, leaving the Trump administration with a "binary choice": use military force to destroy the nuclear program or accept a nuclear-armed North Korea being able to target any U.S. city it wants.
Harris Faulkner asked whether a new round of financial sanctions could make an impact at this stage.
"Forget it. There is no time for this to have impact," Bolton responded.
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Right now they have all the warning that they will ever get. If we strike North Korea it will be a massive attack designed to destroy all of their military power in the first blow.
The last thing that you want to do is give that crowd in Pyongyang a chance to destroy Seoul or Tokyo in response getting hit. My guess is that we have been offering Kim a way to surrender while saving face. Kim appears to prefer getting slaughtered.
Well, we shoot down as many as we can, then ready a package response including appropriate conventional and non-conventional tools. Even if NK lit up US territory, they would be at the mercy of forward positioned and sub-surface tools. It’s a fools game he plays. How many sorties would it take to destroy Pennsylvania’s infrastructure and governance? That’s about how big NK is.
No disagreement, here. The fly in the ointment is how will China or Russia respond?
Quit pussy footing around with this vermin that starves his people.
How many hundred billion a year for our military?
Take short round the hell out.
Grow a set.
Watch at work bump!
bkmk
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