Top admiral: North Korea crisis is 'worst I've seen'

[nitpicker]

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/330902-top-admiral-north-korea-crisis-is-worst-ive-seen

Top admiral: North Korea crisis is 'worst I've seen'

By Rebecca Kheel - 04/27/17 12:53 PM EDT

The top U.S. admiral in the Pacific said Thursday that the current crisis with North Korea is the “worst [he’s] seen”. “I'll just say that I think the crisis on the Korea peninsula is real; it’s the worst I've seen,” Adm. Harry Harris, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee when asked whether it’s a “gradual Cuban missile crisis.” Harris declined to offer a direct comparison to the crisis confronting the Kennedy administration on Cuba, which nearly led to a nuclear war.

Tensions have skyrocketed on the Korean peninsula over the last few weeks as the world waits to see if Kim Jong Un conducts a sixth nuclear test, as satellite imagery has indicated he is ready to do. North Korea has also upped its typically bellicose rhetoric, threatening to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier and threatening Australia with a nuclear strike.
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“I'm not a student of the Cuban missile crisis,” Harris said. “But what I know of it, it seems that we are faced with a threat and a leader who is intent on achieving his goal of a nuclear capability against the United States.”

As other U.S. officials have said in recent weeks, Harris said it’s not a question of if, but when North Korea has the ability to strike the U.S. mainland with a nuclear-tipped missile.
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[still_one]

1. Beating the war drums. The only reason NK would launch an attack on the U.S. or

any of its neighbors is they were attacked.

NK isn't unaware of what would happen if they did launch a pre-emptive attack.

This is such bullshit.

If he isn't a "student" of the Cuban missile crisis then I question his qualifications. Any commander worth his weight, studies history and battles

[Greensix1]

2. Really?? Why NOT?

A United States Admiral, and he hasn't studied the Cuban Missile Crisis? Why the hell NOT? What the hell are they teaching at the military academies, other than the Press was responsible for the loss of the Vietnam War? That's right. They teach that the Press was the reason we lost Vietnam. Not the generals and admirals. Like they had nothing to do with it at all.

[Ghost Dog]

4. The Press

is now controlled, therefore.

[jaxind]

3. tRUMP is Inept!

So, Obama gets through 8 years without us being within imminent danger from North Korea, and tRUMP gets into office and within 3 months, everything gets bats**t crazy?! I don't think that's a coincidence! tRUMP is bringing us all (South Korea, Australia, Japan, US) closer to danger!