The only way to locate and secure all of North Korea’s nuclear weapons sites “with complete certainty” is through an invasion of U.S. ground forces, and in the event of conflict, Pyongyang could use biological and chemical weapons, the Pentagon told lawmakers in a new, blunt assessment of what war on the Korean Peninsula might look like.
The Pentagon, in a letter to lawmakers, said that a full discussion of U.S. capabilities to “counter North Korea’s ability to respond with a nuclear weapon and to eliminate North Korea’s nuclear weapons located in deeply buried, underground facilities” is best suited for a classified briefing.
The letter also said that Pentagon leaders “assess that North Korea may consider the use of biological weapons” and that the country “has a long-standing chemical weapons program with the capability to produce nerve, blister, blood and choking agents.”
The Pentagon repeated that a detailed discussion of how the United States would respond to the threat could not be discussed in public.
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WNU Editor: I call this stating the obvious.
5 comments:
Yeah no sh*t, sherlock
The main reason why a ground force is necessary is because of the mobile rocket launchers that permit the regime to move their nuclear missiles around and launch them quickly at the US,Guam and Japan. .. thanks again, China, for selling those to the north Koreans. There was an article about houw Americans business is war and how china's business is business @RT.
yeah,right. At least Americans call it what it is. What do you think selling all that military stuff and even selling the rocket fuel to the north Koreans will cause? And mind you, selling it to a hermit country that threatens the nuclear annihilation of your #1 trading partner. Do people really still think China is even at all bothered about what happens to us? These are not actions of friends.
Securing them is not the same as setting his programme back a decade, and call his bluff that he will use a non conventional retaliatory response to surgical strikes.
He won't hit Seoul for fear of killing hundred of Chinese nationals and his artillery into military targets will be for domestic consumption to save face.
He is not suicidal.
Thats bad, literally admitting that even with 3 full carrier strike groups they couldn't maintain air cover of significant magnitude to repel the North Korean Army. Can they even secure the nuclear sites? are the Korean spec ops forces that formidable? Is this another Germany, 7 dead US GI's for per German. Wow, North Korea would win a conventional war, wouldn't they. That would mean China's nuclear arsenal would need to be secured as well resulting in a ground assault.
Huh? What about china's nuclear arsenal?
I am willing to go along with what our military leaders have said: a military operation against N. K. would kill hundreds of thousands on "our side,"ie, S. Koreans, Americans in S.K., and Japanese
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