A senior administration official said military preparations are underway in the chance that they become necessary regarding North Korea.
All 100 senators were invited to attend a rare, closed-door briefing by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis at the White House Wednesday so the administration could communicate “the seriousness of the threat posed by North Korea.” An official who briefed reporters next door while it was underway said North Korea is a “brutal, unpredictable and capable regime that possesses an increasing possibility of destruction.”
“What you’ve seen is a really integrated effort to prioritize diplomatic and informational aspects of national power, but also what you will see soon is using the economic dimension of national power, as well as the military preparations that are underway,” the official said.
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The US could make China intervene if desiring to. China needs trade with the US. We, however, do not need the trade as much.
ReplyDeleteRaise a trade tariff, and China will do almost anything to get it removed.
So, the US just needs to entirely exit the peninsula, then request China to control NK.
Don't see the exit unfortunately.
DeleteNot much of a story. We have been making military preparations in Korea since 1950.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Weaver that we could let China handle this. All we have to do is show them how NORK is holding them back.
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DeleteChina doesn't want our anti-missle system in South Korea, but they have to agree that it's not going away unless that creep gets deep sixed N. Korea gets a new government more interested in economic development than war and personality cults. I'm sure they'd rather see some general they have lots of influence run the place like modern Laos than the Kim family forcing the nation to praise and weep for them at gunpoint. Just watch the fake tears in the footage of the funerals of the butchers in the Kim family, you know the place is bad, bad, bad. Bet if the regime fell and the people became emboldened they'd tear apart their tormentors like what happened to Ceaucescu in Romania.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they'd rather see some general they have lots of influence run the place like modern Laos
DeleteYup and reminds me:
Vientiane, Laos 1969
http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=251&highlight=laos
As a soldier in the United States Army, I served in the Republic of Korea (i.e., "South Korea") for a year, and I'm very proud and pleased that I had that opportunity to serve where, exactly a quarter of a century previously, my father had also served as a soldier in the United States Army.
ReplyDeleteI understand that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (i.e., "North Korea") may pose a threat to the Republic of Korea.
However, I'm guessing that desires for eventual reunification may negate that threat, especially if the perpetually starving North Koreans become desperately dependent on any possibilities of humanitarian charity from the South Koreans.
But, why should the United States of America be considering unilateral preemptive military action against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
Yes, the United States of America has a mutual defense treaty with the Republic of Korea, and we have thousands of American soldiers stationed there.
But, why?
At one time, the South Koreans needed our help.
But, do they still need our assistance today?
As I understand it, the Republic of Korea currently has more than enough of its own resources to easily defeat any attack or invasion by the Communists.
So, if that's true, then why do they still need us?
Yes, North Korea is continually threatening the United States of America.
But, that's only because American military forces are in South Korea stationed on North Korea's border.
If American military forces completely withdrew from South Korea, then North Korea would have no reason to threaten the United States of America, would it?
Again, doesn't the Republic of Korea already have more than sufficient of its own resources to easily defeat any and all military aggression from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, all by itself, without any help from the United States of America?
If that's true, then why are we still there?
This looks to me like yet another totally unnecessary war.
Unfortunately, I think the same argument could be made when questioning American military involvement in so many other countries around the globe.
As a viable alternative, maybe we should seriously consider bringing all of our troops home and possibly stationing them on the Mexican border.
Better yet, let's do what the original founders of the United States of America advised us to do.
First, repeal all laws, regulations, and restrictions on private ownership and carrying of loaded firearms in all places and at all times, in order that we can truly have a universally armed populace.
Secondly, let's reduce our active duty regular military forces to a mere cadre restricted to maintenance and training purposes, and instead, have the nation's defense rely primarily on local and state citizen militias.
Similarly, our air and naval forces could easily be supplemented by issuing Letters of Marque and Reprisal to private American corporations which use the high seas and international air space to conduct business in foreign lands.
Of course, none of that is practical unless and until the United States of America quits getting involved in foreign entanglements, just as George Washington counselled.
In theory, we are supposed to be minding our own business and setting an example that the rest of the world will want to emulate.
In theory, we are supposed to be minding our own business and setting an example that the rest of the world will want to emulate.
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the United States of America has a mutual defense treaty with the Republic of Korea,
As we had with the Republic of Vietnam. (SEATO)
Brock, I'd like to add that China currently is retaliating to the US putting missile defence in S. Korea.
ReplyDeleteI believe Nightowl2548 is correct: This is all to put missile defence in S. Korea.
The US never wants to leave, ever. We want missile defence.
Personally, I don't fear China. I'd rather we just raise flat trade protections, thus hindering Chinese development, and then China could never be a threat. And we shouldn't meddle in what China does otherwise for the most part. If China, say, invades S. Korea, then we just sanction China's trade.
This isn't the article I was looking for, but it's pretty good. It's from antiwar:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-china-idUSKBN17S0N3
Thanks. https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2017/04/china-urges-withdrawal-of-us-thaad.html
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