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By anarchist23
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Trump would be a bigger fool if he attacked NK.

Chinese governments has made it clear that they would be against any attack by the US.

South Koea is against the US attacking NK.

Seoul is 35 miles from the DMZ and the NK has nerve agents.

NK would survive an attack even a nuclear one.

The stocks and shares would nosedive as well.
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By ThirdTerm
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I have seen a TV report which claimed that Kim is now travelling with great caution and he does not use his usual Mercedes-Benz car to avoid getting targeted by the Americans. Maybe hitting a convoy carrying North Korean dignitaries with a drone strike could be an option and I don't think a spy operation to assassinate him will be successful.

There was a time when assassinating a foreign leader was an integral component of America’s national-security toolkit. During the Cold War, leaders who were either insufficiently supportive of U.S. policy goals or in bed with the Soviets were targets for removal. Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Congo’s Patrice Lumumba the Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo and Guatemala's Jacobo Árbenz were all on the CIA’s hit-list at one point in time, and Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi was a frequent target due to his sponsorship of international terrorism. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan authorized an air strike on Qaddafi’s compound in the hope that he would be in the building. After three months of interviews across the national-security bureaucracy, the New York Times Magazine concluded that “the assassination of Qaddafi was the primary goal of the Libyan bombing” in 1986.

The Cold War, however, has been over for twenty-five years. Killing foreign political officials, an option that was once always on the table, is now generally discouraged and frowned upon. In fact, It’s been U.S. policy since the Gerald Ford presidency to stay far away from anything that would suggest that the United States is a participant, involved in some way or complicit in an assassination attempt. President Ford’s executive order on this is quite clear: “No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination.” President Reagan restated—and some would say expanded—that restriction in executive order 12333, which says that “[n]o person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.”

Pursuing a policy that would lead to the assassination of Kim Jong-un and the decapitating of the North Korean leadership would therefore be a big reversal from a U.S. policy that has persisted for forty-one years. Policies, of course, can change and presidential directives and executive orders can be modified or rewritten. And there is no statutory prohibition that would prohibit the president of the United States to order a hit on a foreign leader. Although 18 U.S. Code, Section 1116 could be used to prosecute a U.S. person who attempts to kill a foreign leader, this statute only applies if the crime is committed in the United States or the leader is targeted “in a country other than his own.” If President Trump were willing to amend current executive orders on the books, his administration would presumably target Kim Jong-un and not be penalized under the criminal code.

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/wha ... g-un-20108
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By anarchist23
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Here we go again.
It seems that there is one rule for the US and it's lackies and another for the North Koreans.
This is in the MSM at the moment.

North Korea has threatened to launch an “unimaginable” strike on the US, accusing the Trump administration and its South Korean “puppet” allies of seeking to “ignite a war on the Korean peninsula at any cost”.

The statement released by the Korean Central News Agency, Pyongyang’s official’s mouthpiece, predicted “imminent catastrophic disaster” in the region.

Using typically hyperbolic language, it vowed to “mercilessly smash the war frenzy of the US and South Korean puppet warmongers to get rid of the abyss of ruin through dangerous war gambling and inflict the most miserable death on the invaders.

The threat came in response to joint US-South Korea military drills in waters east of the Korean peninsula involving the USS Ronald Reagan, a nuclear powered aircraft carrier.

Forty warships have been deployed in a line stretching from the Yellow Sea to the Sea of Japan.

The presence of the US Navy's biggest warship in Asia, coupled with F-18 Super Hornets and B1-B strategic bombers, comes ahead of Donald Trump’s first official visit to the region, set to start in Japan on 5 November.

The White House is yet to decide whether the President will visit the demilitarised zone (DMZ) during his 12-day trip, which will see him visit South Korea on 7 November and leave for China a day later.

North Korea said America's plans to evacuate US civilians in South Korea beginning on Monday would “intentionally create the tension on the eve of war”.

Next week’s drill, known as Courageous Channel, is being used by the US Department of Defence to respond to “a wide range of crisis management events”.

The drill takes place every six months but has garnered more attention amid escalating tensions on the peninsula.

American military staging evacuation drills across South Korea
North Korea's statement added: “The US is running amuck by introducing under our nose the targets we have set as primary ones.

“The US should expect that it would face unimaginable strike at an unimaginable time.

“The South Korean puppets, too, will not go scot-free as they are introducing the US nuclear strategic assets and turning the whole land of south Korea into the worst-ever field of a nuclear war without seeing the imminent catastrophic disaster.


“The grave situation on the Korean peninsula reaching the unpredictable phase more clearly shows that the US and South Korean puppet warmongers are the chieftains threatening the existence and development of the Korean nation and the root cause of a nuclear war.”

USS Ronald Reagan conducts joint drills with the South Korean navy (Reuters)
A series of weapons tests by Pyongyang, including its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on 3 September and two missile launches over Japan, has stoked tensions.

But on Sunday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Mr Trump had instructed him to continue diplomatic efforts to defuse tension with North Korea.

Washington has not ruled out the eventual possibility of direct talks with the North to resolve the stand-off, US Deputy Secretary of State John J Sullivan said on Tuesday.




http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 09821.html

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