White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien has threatened “appropriate action” against North Korea if the nation carries out new missile tests. O’Brien added the US would be very disappointed, and would “demonstrate” that with their action.
This continues to be based on weeks of speculation of a Christmas surprise coming out of North Korea. Several days after Christmas, with no signs of anything being done, US officials are still threatening North Korea in case anything ever happens.
O’Brien didn’t say what the US would actually do, but said it has “tools in its tool kit” to do something if they want to, and that they’ll want to in response to tests which, again, were only mentioned in North Korean state media offhand once, and then for weeks in US media as a foregone conclusion that they were going to happen.
For now, there is no reason to expect North Korea is on the verge of any sort of test, except for all the talking about it that the media has been doing. Now, with media frenzy being coupled with US threats, there are still no signs what North Korea’s plans are, if any.
O’Brien didn’t say what the US would actually do, but said it has “tools in its tool kit”
What a quaint way of saying we can bomb you into oblivion. Again.
Yes with the bombs we won’t let you have. Crazy!
We did it with conventional toys the first time. We’d probably stick with them unless Kim got one off first.
North Korea will give US what they’re wishing for the new year…! Expect an ICBM test on January One Twenty Twenty…!
The White House threatening action if the DPRK tests missiles?? Really?? This isn’t DJT issuing these threats, it’s the Trotskyists aka Neocons that are, and they’re totally crazy, if not suicidal as well.
What DJT has to do is to purge all these Trotskyists and resume peaceful negotiations with the DPRK and its Chairman, Kim Jong-Un, Period,
Aside from sanctions, what else can the US threaten them with, militarily, for which the DPRK will respond in nuclear fashion? The North Koreans don’t have a navy, but an army capable of launching numerous rockets toward Seoul and US bases in South Korea.
North Korea would likely lose a ground war because of US air support.
Or the US could engage in NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) warfare as they did during the korean war against the North.
At day’s end, who could be harmed by the DPRK’s missile tests that don’t land in “friendly” territory?