U.S. efforts to penetrate reclusive North Korea have been so confounding for so long that the military likely doesn't have enough accurate intelligence to take out its nuclear and missile facilities even if President Donald Trump ordered it.
Trump on Thursday declared anew that "military action would certainly be an option," one that would be "a very sad day for North Korea."
"Is it inevitable? Nothing's inevitable," he said at a White House news conference, adding that he "would prefer not going the route of the military, but it's something certainly that could happen. Our military has never been stronger.”
But because the so called Hermit Kingdom has long been one of the most impenetrable intelligence targets — the top U.S. spy earlier this year called it “one of the hardest, if not the hardest" — there is low confidence airstrikes or other means of attack would successfully thwart its nuclear and missile ambitions without leaving significant elements of its arsenal for Pyongyang to retaliate with.
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WNU Editor: I would like to think that South Korean intelligence has penetrated North Korea from top to bottom .... but the South Koreans are not talking. As for U.S. intelligence .... it must be hard (if not impossible) to have assets on the ground in North Korea telling Washington on what is happening in the "Hermit Kingdom". Everything in North Korea is tightly controlled and watched, and any abnormal behavior will be spotted immediately and questioned. In this environment .... how can an intelligence agency operate? Bottom line .... it cannot.
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To your comment: Of course they have spy's in NK, they just dont brag about it.
Well, during the cold war USA had no spy in USSR, still they get some information differently....but you cannot tell it without burning your source.
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