Former U.S. National Security Advisor Believes Military Action May Be Necessary to Denuclearize North Korea
Let’s hope that military action is the option of last resort which it appears to currently be considering how much of a chance the Trump administration is giving the Kim regime to change their ways:
In an interview with “Axios on HBO,” McMaster argues North Korea could directly threaten “the United States, China, Japan, the world” with its nuclear arsenal and could also engage in “nuclear blackmail.”
Axios
“This regime could say [if U.S. forces] don’t go off the Korean peninsula, we’re going to threaten the use of nuclear weapons, for example.”
McMaster also raises the prospect of North Korea selling its nuclear secrets, or even weapons, noting Pyongyang “was developing a nuclear weapons program for the Assad regime in Syria.”
He also points to the risk of wider nuclear proliferation in Japan, South Korea and beyond, asking: “If North Korea gets a weapon, who doesn’t?”
Between the lines: North Korea already has a nuclear arsenal, and many experts doubt that leader Kim Jong-un will ever give it up.
McMaster says the U.S. needs to “prepare for at least the option of the use of military force” to convince Kim to denuclearize.
The Trump administration has sidelined the so-called “bloody nose strategy,” though, and the president speaks warmly of Kim and his intentions.
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