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The subs home ported in Guam, USS Chicago (SSN-721), USS Key West (SSN-722), USS Oklahoma City (SSN-723), and USS Topeka (SSN-754) will more than devastate North Korea if they strike first.Unless the job goes to Andersen.
If their response to Trump's statement is to consider striking Guam, their capabilities are not as great as they claim and we've heard.
@edpc No, it means they are striking the closest American target away from their area.
So while Trump is trying to out-crazy Kim Jong-un, North Korea has made the next move . . .. . . And this is what happens when you put someone in charge of your nation, simply because he’s an “outsider” and you saw him on a reality TV show.It’s the equivalent of getting an auto mechanic to perform your kid’s open heart surgery . . .. . . It’s unclear at this moment whether Trump received clearance to make the kind of threat he’d made earlier in the day . . . While North Korea needs to be dealt with firmly, that was a volatile statement, and it only served to put a lot of people on edge.QuoteU.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has warned of an “effective and overwhelming” response against North Korea if it chose to use nuclear weapons but has said any military solution would be “tragic on an unbelievable scale.”That is a carefully worded statement, taking into account the sensitive and serious nature of the problem.Trump is neither a leader nor a diplomat, and words matter.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has warned of an “effective and overwhelming” response against North Korea if it chose to use nuclear weapons but has said any military solution would be “tragic on an unbelievable scale.”
There are more than a dozen US bases in SK and a couple more in Okinawa. All closer.
The President put the military option back on the table that Zero had removed.
The President simply returned the military option to the table Obama had removed.Good.
Why would they nuke South Korea?They plan to reunify their country... and it's hard to do with a radioactive husk (whose fallout keeps landing in your capitol).
Trump’s North Korea Threat Is Eerily Similar To Harry Truman’s Hiroshima Bombing Announcement In 1945By Greg Price On 8/8/17 at 5:51 PMPresident Donald Trump gave his most direct and poignant warning toward North Korea and Kim Jon Un’s regime Tuesday amid the authoritarian government’s ongoing missile and nuclear tests and its equally ominous rhetoric.And Trump’s words, while they did not mention a specific type of attack or a nuclear bomb, did appear eerily similar to the phrasing used by former President Harry Truman after he announced to the country and the world that the U.S. had dropped an atomic bomb on Japan’s Hiroshima army base in August 1945.“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Trump told reporters at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. “They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state and as I said they will be met with fire and fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.”http://www.newsweek.com/trump-north-korea-threat-truman-hiroshima-648304
They don't plan to reunify, they plan to conquer. And I'm sure it hasn't escaped notice that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are habitable and inhabited. Nuking Seoul would be a small price to pay.
Trump is basically pulling a a Harry Truman.
