Air armada: The impressive show of force was designed to demonstrate the strength of the American-South Korean alliance against North Korea
Edward Luttwak, Foreign Policy: It’s Time to Bomb North Korea
Destroying Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal is still in America’s national interest.
Nothing can be known about this week’s talks between North and South Korea other than their likely outcome. As in every previous encounter, South Korea will almost certainly reward North Korea’s outrageous misconduct by handing over substantial sums of money, thus negating long-overdue sanctions recently imposed by the United Nations Security Council. Meanwhile, the North will continue to make progress toward its goal of deploying several nuclear-armed, mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, having already tested nuclear-explosive devices in October 2006, May 2009, February 2013, January 2016, September 2016, and September 2017.
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WNU Editor: I have been following Edward Luttwak since the 1980s .... he has not changed at all in the past 30 years. As to his commentary above .... I have no words to say how awful such a course of action would be at this point of time.
Update: Tillerson and Mattis are reportedly trying to hold Trump back from striking North Korea (Business Insider).
4 comments:
Fully agree. North Korea may be playing us right now, but we have to believe in the chance of peace.
If north Korea however tests another bomb or icbm delivery system then all bets are off.
So actually, if they don't- the US won and north Korea was able to save face as being peacemakers (good for them, I don't care) - means both won. Which would be great. But de-nuclearisation still needs to happen to avoid an arms and nuclear race in asia and perhaps spoiling to the rest of the world. We need less of these weapons, not more! But to not be hypocritical this must include all nuclear nations and not just north Korea. Everyone must start reducing their stockpile. Plus, reducing the nuclear arsenals worldwide brings so many advantages. Lower chances of incidents/accidents, nuclear terrorism, and, importantly: savings that can be invested into innovative technologies like AI.
That's making a dangerous assumption that they don't have fully operational icbm yet, and the way Intel has consistently got it wrong that's a big if.
The discussion needs to be not only suspend all further testing but dismantle what you have and let inspectors in to verify it.
Anything else is beyond dangerous and the u.s has lost.
This entire Olympic crap is a ploy to create a diversion, create division and create time.
I can practically hear Admiral akbar say "Its a trap"
Fazman, any realistic threat scenario in which Kim Jong-Un's face doesn't melt off 60min later requires help by China. So if this is indeed a ploy as you say it would have to involve China. And even China is not that heartless to use an event of peace and togetherness - that's what the Olympics is about in part - to start a nuclear shooting war.
Lutwak's comments before the invasion in 1991 were astounding. His knowledge of our military's capabilities stopped Nov. 11, 1918.
Roger
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