Though all the analysts agree that North Korea’s comments on an imminent war are merely posturing, and US intelligence officials have conceded that there don’t seem to have been any serious moves by North Korea to change their military’s mobilization, US officials are still talking up war as a matter of course.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has declared North Korea a “real and clear danger” to the United States, and the Pentagon has reportedly asked China to intervene to prevent North Korea from following through on its threats.
Generals are calling the situation in Korea “extremely volatile,” and the US keeps adding more warships and nuclear-weapons bearing bombers to the peninsula, while the State Department vows to defend South Korea at all costs.
And if the administration sees war as a grim possibility, it was inevitable that Congressional hawks would start salivating at a welcome diversion from the ongoing budget battle.
Rep. Peter King (R – NY), always among the first to talk up any war, insisted that the US should not “wait until Americans are killed or wounded or injured in any way,” saying that if North Korea’s threats are sincere the US has a “right” and a “moral obligation” to launch a preemptive military attack against them.
Though most of North Korea’s “threats” are centered around video game footage and plans that involve them using weapons they don’t have, the administration is trying to balance their comments between downplaying the idea of imminent annihilation while playing up North Korea as a super serious threat that requires dramatic outlays of manpower and funding for missile defense systems to shoot down non-existing incoming salvos.
This is both pathetic and unspeakably sick. Is the most powerful military in history really going to bomb one of the poorest countries in the world, a country that could never hurt the US militarily in a thousand years? No value placed on other humans' lives at all.
Warning Will Robinson !
Lmao. "We shouldn't wait until Americans are killed" so let's send some in there to get killed ASAP! Pro war people are hilarious.
King is a total and complete rectal orifice. I see where you are coming from but King is not funny.
The only reason N Korea is regarded as a 'threat' is to maintain the presence of external enemies used to justify the bloated defense budget.
WARNING :PENTA GONE (AS GONE NUTS) —>>>>a REAL AND CLEAR DANGER..
WARNING :PENTA GONE (AS GONE NUTS) —>>>>a REAL AND CLEAR DANGER..
{Pentagon: North Korea a ‘Real and Clear Danger}
Shut up idiot. You have said this before in relation to Iran. Have you forgotten it. Now everyone
knows that YOU ARE A LIAR AND A WAR CRIMINAL. Now those phony "progressives" must appologize since they promoted Hagel as defence secretary using LIES and DECEPTIONS to sell him to the gullible people.
North Korea had a deal with the U.S. back at the end of the Clinton administration which would have shut down its nuclear reactors in exchange for guaranteed imports of other fuels. This should have been a peaceful resolution to tensions in that part of the world, but the deal was reneged by the incoming Bush administration. Needless to say, mainstream media fails to mention this historic fact despite the important contextualization it provides. This conflict has been deliberately manufactured and serves only those who believe the world to be some kind of chessboard hat they alone can play and do so without accountability or consequence. Meanwhile, the North Korean people are placed under threat while the American people lose their jobs, schools, pensions, etc.
Not entirely true.
The new huge PWR reactors would have been dleayed in completion.
There would have been delays deliveringthe fuel oil.
This would have created a power and thus a humanitarian crisis to Intervene in.
We know this from the leaked documents.
Yes, a real and clear danger that you created by first being a real and clear danger to it. Brilliant! Moronic USA.
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