How the US should handle North Korea nuclear crisis
by Gen. Wesley Clark
'Once again, North Korean President Kim Jong Un has one-upped and surprised the West. Now he not only has an ICBM-ranged missile, but most likely a multi-megaton-yield nuclear warhead to go with it. What is Mr. Kim after, and how should the United States respond?
Kim most likely wants what his family has always wanted: regime survival, the U.S. gone home, and reunification of Korea under the Kim family.
With nuclear-tipped missiles, Kim is pressing back against a decades-old U.S. deterrent posture, which, in the event that North Korea initiated military action against the South, enabled the U.S. to strike back with impunity, safe from any North Korean reprisal.
In and of itself, this new North Korean capability doesn't change the U.S. security guarantee to South Korea. The U.S. has long extended its deterrent umbrella to allies, against Soviet and Chinese threats, knowing that in the event of conflict, America's own cities were at risk. Kim is hardly so irrational as to seek the conquest of South Korea at the expense of the destruction of the North.'>>>
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/06/how-us-must-handle-n-korea-nuclear-crisis-gen-wesley-clark-commentary.html
= new reply since forum marked as read
