Trump Says North Korea’s ICBM Test “Won’t Happen”
I guess we will see in the coming months what President-elect Trump means when he says the North Korean’s ICMB test “won’t happen”:
President-elect Donald Trump contended Monday night that North Korea would not be able to develop a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the United States, despite its claims to the contrary, and berated China for not doing enough to help stop the rogue state’s weapons program.
Trump’s declarations on Twitter came after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in a New Year’s address that the country had reached the “final stages” of testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the United States.
“It won’t happen!” Trump tweeted. [Stars & Stripes]
We can, but should we?
https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/what-us-would-use-strike-north-korea
“Delicate Negociations” has earned us exactly squat. Not sure if we should just roll over the DPRK, bringing the Wrath of the Valkries with us, but Fatty Kim has shown no intention of slowing down until he gets what he wants.
@MTB Rider, for the record I am not advocating for a military strike, but the way I look at it is if the US decides to do a military strike against the DPRK go all in and wipe out their military capacity as much has possible without an invasion.
A limited strike is not going to do anything that changes the strategic situation on the peninsula that the DPRK cannot recover from. Plus after a limited strike any retaliatory measures they take such as a limited artillery strike at Seoul would be justified. Could you imagine the fall out of a limited artillery strike on Seoul in response to a US limited bombing strike with a left-wing ROK President in charge?
There are other options other then bombing North Korea that have not been tried yet. For example the targeted financial sanctions against banks, especially Chinese banks that aid in moving the Kim regime’s dirty money. All other options should be used before resorting to any strike on the DPRK.