New reports out of NBC News today have some alarming details about the Trump Administration North Korea policy review, and the set of options the White House is being presented with to “respond” to North Korea’s continued attempts to develop nuclear weapons.
Among the options being considered, according to officials, is for the US to start positioning a number of nuclear weapons in South Korea. The US withdrew its nuclear weapons from Korea 25 years ago, and a new deployment would be seen as a major provocation for China, as well as North Korea.
Not such a big provocation for North Korea as one of the other options, is to just assassinate Kim Jong-un and other North Korean officials outright, with former NATO commander James Stavridis saying that the killings are “always a tempting strategy.
As with many of the other official statements on North Korea lately, this is seen as having a lot to do with China, with officials conceding that the threats of dramatic escalation of the tensions with North Korea might add pressure to Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is presently visiting the US, to impose some sort of solution on North Korea himself.
Trump Administration officials have repeatedly insisted they believe China could quickly and unilaterally solve North Korea with little effort, though the US has also ruled out any Chinese solution that involves any sort of diplomacy.
What does it say about the USA when they demand N Korea have no nuclear weapons ( and just about everyone else) while the US wants to have nukes all over the world. Two faced hypocisy and said with a straight face. When one gets to a certain level of evil, it leads to a state of insanity, and our world is being held hostage by lunatics with their fingers on the trigger of nuclear weapons. What does it say about the people who actually support and encourage these maniacs? On the “barometer of evil”, there is no lower limit.
This is the natural progression that the US promotes throughout the world. Nuclear armed US proxies.
But the downside, or the upside, depending on your POV, is that Russia and China become empowered to do the same with credibility.
Perhaps there’s something good to say about the nuclear deterrent to war in the hands of many proxy countries on both sides.
But then again, perhaps not.
The question will most assuredly be above Trump and his admin’s pay grade.
China and Russia need to start nuke arming potential victims of Americans bullying as a form of charitable aid. Americans just don’t know when to stop. Time to take down the bully
North Korea dictator already panicking,now sending nuclear device to South Korea is like putting petrol to fire.