Trump arranging a hit on Nth Korea

Originally posted by Dave R ↑

by Chris Hughes...
President Trump has ordered his military advisers to be ready with a list of options to smash North Korea’s nuclear threat.

One of the advisers, Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster, confirmed his Commander-in-Chief has made the order as a U.S. carrier strike group heads for the region.
It is believed that among the options are combined special forces raids and pre-emptive missile strikes.
One of the problems facing an American-led operation to hit Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong-Un is the intricate tunnel network under the capital.
© AP Photo US President Donald Trump. War-planners have had difficulty mapping out the subterranean complex and believe there are hundreds of underground artillery and airplane sites.
McMaster described the decision to redeploy the USS Carl Vinson to the Sea of Japan as ‘prudent’ given North Korea’s ‘pattern of provocative behaviour’
Speaking to Fox News, McMaster said: “It’s prudent to do it, isn’t it?
“Presidents before and President Trump agreed that that is unacceptable, that what must happen is the denuclearisation of the peninsula.
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“The president has asked [us] to be prepared to give us a full range of options to remove that threat.”
The news comes after Trump launched cruise missiles against Assad in Syria last week, the first time the US has directly targeted the regime during the conflict.
North Korea denounced Trump’s attack as an act of ‘intolerable aggression’ and one that justified ‘a million times over’ its push toward a nuclear deterrent.

Dave R.

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morning all, hi dave

well, NK will be an interesting situation if the US does intend to act militarily.

It will come down to they will either use Nuclear weapons - or not.

If they do - well, the ball game is very much changed.

If they don't ----------- well, NK is not necessarily as easy as many in the world like to think.

Sure, the yanks have the quality firepower - but, NK certainly have a lot of numbers ---------- we shall see.

Having someone at the helm who has zero experience of military and war is not quite what I would call an advantage

NK is a long long way from home for the US and the Pacific might not be as friendly a place as it used to be for them.

I wouldn't be too happy with my Japanese real estate investments atm

And, who knows - if Putin is really pissed off about Syria (which I am not convinced of) - it's only a short hop to help out with some arms if 'my enemy is your enemy now' maybe the friendship will blossom again all of a sudden.