Justin Smith writes about the nuclear tensions between North
Korea and the United States. The Leftist MSM is quick to blame President Trump
for escalating the tensions EVEN THOUGH the entire escalation threat is from
Communist dictator Kim Jong Un.
JRH 8/14/17
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The Hardest of Choices
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 8/13/2017 4:40 PM
America is left only the hardest of choices to deal with a
nuclear armed and belligerent North Korea, that recently fired another
intercontinental ballistic missile on July 28th (10:45 pm EST) from
Jagang province, the latest in a score of tests over the past year, with an
approximate range of 6000 miles. America cannot tolerate an ever expanding and
improving nuclear arsenal, under Kim Jong Un, an irrational and unstable
dictator, who murdered his uncle in December 2013 and his half-brother in
February of this year: and, while a bloody conventional war isn't sought by
America and South Korea, America cannot afford to do nothing and risk a massive
loss of life in a future nuclear conflagration.
On August 7th, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs released
a new poll, that revealed 90 percent of Americans "reject the
idea that North Korea should be allowed to produce nuclear weapons", 75
percent view North Korea's nuclear weapons systems as a "critical threat
facing the United States", and 62 percent would support the use of U.S.
troops to defend South Korea from North Korea. They are right to be concerned.
North Korea has a long history of brash, reckless chutzpah
and violent aggression towards the United States and South Korea, long after
the Armistice was signed on July 27th, 1953. In some of the more recent cases,
the world saw the North Korean navy fire on the South Korean navy in South
Korea's own territorial waters on November 10th, 2009; North Korea fired over
170 artillery shells and rockets at Yeonpyeong Island that injured 19 and
killed four South Koreans, on November 23rd, 2010, and they even sneaked across
the border in 2015 and planted land-mines that maimed two South Korean
soldiers.
Ryan Mauro's August 9th article for the Clarion
Project revisits reports that detail North Korea's
alliance with Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamofascists in general. In 2009,
two thousand detonators and 35 tons of rockets, shoulder-fired missiles and
equipment for surface-to-air-missiles were intercepted on two separate
occasions. They were coming from North Korea to Iran for distribution to Hamas
and Hezbollah terrorist groups in Thailand. North Korea states that it
"fully supports" the Palestinian jihad, and North Korea has also
regularly armed the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines for many
decades.
It is also worth noting that the USS Pueblo, a Banner-class
environmental ship attached to Navy Intelligence, was attacked and captured by
the North Korean navy on January 23rd, 1968. The USS Pueblo still sits on the
Taedong River near Pyongyang, North Korea, as a tool for anti-American
propaganda and a monument to North Korea's " courage and bravery".
Once North Korea's nuclear weapons systems are fully
capable, what happens when North Korea threatens to nuke a U.S. city or one of
our allies, unless some unreasonable demand is met, like reunifying Korea under
their control? If they threaten us with nuclear destruction, unless we stay out
of the South China Sea, an international trade route, what are we to do?
Prepare for nuclear war?
Reports from Japan's annual defense review and
the U.S. Defense Intelligence
Agency's analysis last month indicate that North Korea has
succeeded in miniaturizing nuclear warheads enough to mount them on their
missiles, including its long-range missiles that are now able to hit America's
mainland. This has been North Korea's goal from day one of the Armistice, and
the pace of their breakthroughs hold far reaching consequences and threatens to
bring war.
To date, North Korea has not perfected reentry of its
missiles, and its latest missile launch caught fire and disintegrated, as it
plummeted to earth. Most U.S. analysts and experts believe they will have this
problem solved by next year.
After the July 28th ICBM test, President Donald Trump
presented a case for sanctions to the United Nations, because he has warned
North Korea numerous times, and he is unwilling to tolerate this situation.
China, Russia and the entire United Nations Security Council voted
unanimously, 15-0, to place strong economic and trade sanctions on
this rogue nation, but North Korea has remained ever defiant and threatened to
take revenge on the United States, illustrating sanctions won't work.
In one of their first statements, the North Korean Army described
Andersen Air Force Base on Guam as a "beachhead" for a potential U.S.
invasion of North Korea, that would be one of their targets. While this sounds
like a defensive tact, it also suggests that they have obviously considered a
first strike on America, her allies and her territories. They proclaimed that
they will create an "enveloping fire" in areas around Guam.
Sitting next to Melania, his wife, at his golf course in
Bedminster, N.J. on August 8th, President Trump stated (reported
by Associated Press): "North Korea had best not make any more
threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the
world has never seen.”
This warning is not worrying the upper echelons of North
Korea's military, who seem to be fully on board with Kim Jong Un's malevolent and
maniacal vision, as General Kim Rak Gyom suggested that
President Trump was "getting on (their) nerves". They are unwilling
or unable to accurately assess the risks of their actions. It's as if they have
no sense of America's alarm over their actions or any belief that America will
retaliate with force.
North Korea has even threatened to sell
nuclear weapons to America's enemies and international terrorist
groups. They could easily sell off a few, since they will have nearly 100 by
2020.And it is not out of the realm of possibility that they could facilitate a
nuclear attack on America, by an Islamic terrorist group, and claim it wasn't
them.
Will our government still be trying to negotiate on the day
that one or more nuclear devices, stamped "Made in North Korea", make
America's horizon a glowing inferno?
The time for talking and negotiating has long passed, and
the hardest of choices lies ahead, while an irrational Kim Jong Un becomes increasingly
bellicose with each significant nuclear armament success. Seventeen years of
talk from feckless American leaders has placed this choice before us. Rather
than accept nuclear weapons capable of striking the heart of America, in the
hands of an American-hating rogue nation with a history of arming terrorists,
President Donald Trump must resort to a lightening swift preemptive strike at
the heart of North Korea, utilizing the Mother of All Bombs and tactical
nuclear weapons on every military position, nuclear facility and Pyongyang too…
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
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