Military options for denuclearizing North Korea
Peter Vincent Pry
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
After North Korea’s H-Bomb test in September 2017, some analysts, myself included, urged the White House to consider possible military options, using conventional surgical strikes to denuclearize North Korea quickly, while minimizing escalatory risks.
Decades of failed talks, and the failed Hanoi nuclear summit proves again, North Korea will not denuclearize peacefully.
Dictator Kim Jong-un’s game is to buy time through pretend negotiations to build enough ICBMs so nuclear-armed North Korea, with a Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) relationship with the United States, becomes irreversible.
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Steve Herman
â€Verified account @W7VOA
Ex @CIA intel officer, who is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and director of the US Nuclear Strategy Forum, advocates US shooting down #DPRK satellites.
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1110909986840952833
Pretty intense, looks like an important article.