How Trump can stop North Korea's nuclear threats against the U.S.
Oren Dorell , USA TODAY 8:47 p.m. EST January 3, 2017
In their first verbal standoff, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un indicated his country is in the final stages of testing a missile with a nuclear weapon that can reach the United States, and President-elect Donald Trump has vowed that "won't happen."
Trump's options for making good on that tweet sent Monday range from diplomacy to a pre-emptive military strike.
Here are some options for dealing with the North Korean nuclear threat, according to former U.S. negotiators, arms control experts and analysts who’ve studied the region.
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Note, the last option they list:
PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKE
If Trump wants to “quickly decapitate the head of the snake” and do it without mobilizing 100,000 U.S. troops to invade North Korea, he could order a military strike on the capital, Pyongyang, said Robert Kelley, a former director at the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency.
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