Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (R) testifies at a House (Select) Intelligence Committee hearing, September 10, 2015. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
Business Insider: 'No other realistic option': Former intelligence chief says US needs to accept North Korea's nuclear capability
* Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that "the North Koreans are not going to denuclearize" and that negotiations between North and South Korea would be beneficial.
* Clapper's comments come amid rumors of a looming North Korean missile test and US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley's fiery warning that the US will not take the bilateral talks seriously.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper gave s sobering assessment of North Korea's efforts to advance its nuclear and missile capabilities during an interview with CNN on Tuesday.
"That train left station a long time ago," Clapper said of North Korea's willingness to halt its weapons program. "The North Koreans are not going to denuclearize."
Clapper's comments stood in contrast to a fiery warning from the US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who said on Tuesday that the US would not take talks between South Korea and North Korea seriously after South Korea proposed holding high-level talks between the two nations at the North-South Korean border.
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WNU Editor: Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says the U.S. should accept North Korea's nuclear capability .... that is a really rich remark coming from someone who did this .... U.S. Intelligence Agencies Knew In 2013 That North Korea Was Capable Of Miniaturising Nuclear Weapons (August 10, 2017).
1 comment:
It's a risk assessment
Are we better of having a war, or are we better of not having a war
Secondly, what are the benefits to others (North Koreans, South Korea, Japan etc) if that war is had or not had.
I'm not sure of the outcome of that risk assessment, but it surely will center around the sanity and predictability of the North Korean regime, a regime that has mass concentration camps, and likely is involved in the torture and killings of thousands and thousands of its own people.
Can go either way, we'll know 2019 :)
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