Former top CIA official: US 'running out of options' on NK

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 09/24/17 07:00 AM EDT

Former chief of operations for the CIA counterintelligence center, Lon Augustenborg, warned on Sunday that the U.S. is quickly running out of options on North Korea as the war of words between President Trump and Kim Jong Un escalates.

"We are running out of options quickly. And the president, while I certainly understand his speech at the UN, the personal attacks, especially when you're going after someone like the Korean leadership, and with their culture … to save face, it just ups the ante and increases the hostility, and we already have limited options," Augustenborg told John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York.

Augustenborg went on to say that the U.S. should consider putting even more pressure on China in order to force the nation to take a more hardline stance on Pyongyang.

"The Chinese really have to cut everything off. And I think we have to put more pressure on China, even if it means not paying our debts to them," he continued. "Deep down, China feels the US is their number one threat, not North Korea, and I think we have to reverse that for them or change their perspective," he said.

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[bdamomma]

1. we have a stupid ass

man in the WH and he is a bully period, he is messing with the wrong people. His a$$ should go to NK put them both in a room and let them puff their chests out and keep us out of it.

[RKP5637]

3. When it some to negotiating skills he's at the bottom of the class, in fact, he's

not even in the class. The guy is a total failure.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. "even if it means not paying our debts to them,' he continued." "Not paying debts" equals default.

Brilliant. Miss a few interest payments on the bonds. Tell them that the prestige of lending money to us is payment enough.

[jamzrockz]

4. The problem for North Korea

is that regardless of whether they disarm, the US will eventually come for their heads so the best option is not to disarm and to ignore all their threats.

Iraq, Libya and Syria disarmed and the only good it did was make their destruction that more easier for the west. Iran has agreed not to arm themselves with WMDs and the US is still threatening them

[still_one]

5. Bullshit. NK isn't going attack anyone unless we do a pre-emptive attack on them. As much as

these cold war relics would like you to believe that NK would do that, NK isn't suicidal.

What out invasion of Iraq, based on a lie, taught NK and other countries was that having a nuclear weapon provides a pretty good deterrent from us invading

The biggest threat we have, and the world, is the imbecile that occupies the WH might just try to attack NK, and wreak all kinds of havoc, death, and destruction