One of the greatest fears of a war with North Korea, aside from its nuclear weapons, is the proximity of massive North Korean artillery batteries to Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Seoul is home to nearly 10 million people, with another 14 million or so in the surrounding region. According to Nicola Smith, writing […]
How Should the U.S. Solve the North Korean Problem?
According to Andrew Bracevich, the Trump administration should approach the problems posed by North Korea with a seven step process. He writes at The American Conservative (abridged): There are seven postulates that ought to inform U.S. policy regarding North Korea. First, our objective. Nothing is more important than to be clear about what we are trying […]
The World’s Worst Weapon Is Now in Korea
In The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan writes that despite the new evidence that North Korea possesses the technology for creating the world’s worst weapon, a hydrogen bomb, the U.S. should wait on a preemptive attack. He writes: Arguably the world’s worst regime now has the world’s worst weapon, an H-bomb, with ICBMs to follow. What […]
Do Americans Support a Neocon Backed War in North Korea?
At The National Interest, the Cato Institute’s vice president for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Chris Preble, asks the simple question no one in Washington seem to be able to answer: Do Americans really want to go to war with North Korea? The country is still bogged down in two recent failures in the Middle East, […]
Scheuer: Trump Has Two Rotten Choices on North Korea
According to Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, President Trump can only choose from two lousy choices to fix the North Korean problem. The first is making an agreement that allows U.S. forces into North Korea to inspect and destroy their nuclear arsenal. The next is total military annihilation of […]
A Different Solution to the Korea Problem
If the choice today is do nothing and watch North Korea arm up with nuclear weapons, or attack and watch the devastation of South Korea in the ensuing war, Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, writing at The American Conservative, offers a third way forward. Current attempts to eliminate the North’s nuclear […]
Pull U.S. Forces Out of Korea
North Korea is on its way to building a nuclear armed ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States. Pat Buchanan writes that Kim Jong Un and his regime are hell bent on developing such nuclear weapons capabilities because they feel it’s the only way to deter American influence on their country. Pat suggests that […]
Collision Course: A New Nuclear Threat in North Korea
Yesterday, the North Koreans successfully showed that they have the technology to fire an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) far enough to hit most of the United States. The ICBM is proof that North Korea has made great strides in its ballistic missile technology, and creates a new nuclear threat for the American people. Justin McCurry […]
Will a Devastating World War III Start in Korea?
Pat Buchanan asks if the United States should be bound to defend South Korea in perpetuity. What vital U.S. interest is being protected in South Korea? Americans have been guarding the Demilitarized Zone since the Korean War armistice in 1953. Will it ever end, or will America be forced into WWIII protecting the South Koreans […]
What is the Trump Administration Planning on North Korea?
Yesterday President Trump met with the U.N. ambassadors of the current members of the U.N. Security Council (as well as with American ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley). The meeting took place at the White House. Trump has been a hard critic of the U.N., so the meeting with Security Council member nations is a bit […]