Trump urged to ‘lower the boom’
on North Korea amid new threats
Fox News,
by
Judson Berger
Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk,
12/25/2019 1:35:36 PM
North Korea’s vague threats of a potential year-end provocation – what the regime has dubbed a “Christmas gift” – have analysts and ex-officials urging the Trump administration to consider tougher options toward Pyongyang in 2020.
Kim Jong Un’s regime wants sanctions eased by the end of the year, and its warnings have prompted speculation they could be planning a new missile test, possibly of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead. (Snip) "We'll see what happens. Let's see. Maybe it's a nice present, maybe it's a present where he sends me a beautiful vase as opposed to a missile test ... you never know," he said.
No need to post this article. It confirms what I saw earlier on the Internet about the DPRK "showdown".
"U.S. flies four spy planes over North Korea amid Christmas threat: report"
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/475911-us-flies-four-spy-planes-over-north-korea-amid-christmas-threat-report
FTA: "The U.S. flew four aircraft, the RC-135W Rivet Joint, E-8C, RQ-4 Global Hawk and RC-135S Cobra Ball, over the country between Tuesday and early Wednesday."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/25/2019 1:54:45 PM (No. 271209)
By now the leader of North Korea should know that Trump does not respond to well to threats.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Pook60 12/25/2019 2:23:21 PM (No. 271219)
I’d like to see an article that explains how North Korea got the technology to control their missiles. (Hint: you can’t explain it without mentioning Bill Clinton.)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/25/2019 2:25:34 PM (No. 271220)
As it stands now, you have to figure that if President Trump carries out any sort of a military strike, surgical or not, targeting North Korean military entities, that the immediate North Korean response would be a mass artillery and tactical rocket attack against the territory of South Korea that would definitely kill and wound a large number of innocent South Koreans, and maybe some Americans, since the City of Seoul is within range of such a potential North Korean attack. After that anything could occur including Chairman Kim making a huge mistake that could result in North Korea being turned into one big nuclear disaster area. Take that from a guy who spend most of 1960-61 in the US infantry along the DMZ.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/25/2019 2:53:05 PM (No. 271223)
Lil' Kim knows that the first time he pulls the trigger will be the last. He is not stupid and I trust Donald Trump to make the correct decisions. Obama era analysts and ex-officials made all of the wrong decisions during his reign of error, they probably have not gotten any smarter in three years.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Sandbar 12/25/2019 3:20:12 PM (No. 271227)
Over the past few decades, each new President, both Republican and Democrat, has been greeted with NK rattling their sabres. Each time they have been somehow rewarded if for no other good reason than to just quiet the situation. A short sighted, out of sight, out of mind, type of foreign policy. Trump has refused to play the game. Kim can threaten all he wants in hopes of rewards but what has he to gain by actual conflict. He can threaten or even attack Japan but he could not occupy it and therefore profit by it. He could, I suppose, attack and even occupy S. Korea temporarily but only if he's suicidal.
He's trying what has been successful in the past, it's not working and China won't allow him to totally abdicate this position. Rock and a hard place.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/25/2019 3:27:24 PM (No. 271230)
If Kimmie wants to live, sending the beautiful vase to the President will be in his best interest. Having blown his chance to join the global marketplace, Kimmie is no longer relevant.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HerbVA 12/25/2019 4:01:39 PM (No. 271242)
Lower the boom may be literal rather than figurative. Don’t mess with our President.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 12/25/2019 4:36:52 PM (No. 271247)
You can always count on the Warmongers to want to drop bombs, when a little bit of child psychology will work.
'They' don't care about lives on either side, as long as the Military Contractors can sell their stuff, and keep the graft money flowing into the pockets of the Senate and House members, and the Perfumed Princes of the Pentagon
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/25/2019 4:44:35 PM (No. 271248)
#9, President Trump knows that and is why the John Bolton’s of the world are on the outs with him.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
greggojo 12/25/2019 5:26:23 PM (No. 271261)
Meanwhile, while this potentially lethal catastrophe looms, what are the Democrats doing? What they are always doing, playing politics to advantage themselves. What is the deep state doing? Trying to dictate foreign policy. What is President Trump doing? Carrying all of the real responsibility on his broad shoulders. This is a very delicate situation, and I trust Donald Trump. He will do the best he can for America and for world peace. He inherited all this from decades of his predecessors, especially Bill Clinton and Barack Obama who did nothing but appease tyrants, kicking the can down the road, all to a chorus of bravo from the media.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 12/25/2019 6:45:01 PM (No. 271270)
This folks who make less then DJT spends on shoes are trying to tell him how to negotiate. Now that's funny
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
watashiyo 12/25/2019 7:30:02 PM (No. 271281)
President Trump, don't mess with Kim Jong Un! He will bomb the North Pole to ruin Christmas for all Americans!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/25/2019 8:53:38 PM (No. 271309)
I agree with #11. The way the US Democrats have been acting in being continuously adverse to President Trump and calling him a criminal, those factors alone make it harder for Trump and his team to negotiate a legitimate deal with adversarial foreign governments that are uncertain if Trump will be removed from office. With that continuously occurring it is fair to say that the Democrats are undercutting the US negotiating positions for partisan political purposes.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 12/26/2019 2:45:59 AM (No. 271368)
Yea! We need another war! Let's elect Hillary to get us into one! N Korea is NOT a threat! They don't even have lights! Another bogyman!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 12/26/2019 9:20:09 AM (No. 271526)
its a good thing that Trump does not listen to these idiots. The same people calling for this, would then call Trump unstable for getting us involved in a war.
Perhaps the US and NK can enter into a 'joint test' where NK launches their missiles, and the US can try to shoot them down...probably a bad idea.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 12/26/2019 9:01:29 PM (No. 271939)
Put an Aegis cruiser off the coast, shoot down the next missile launched, during the boost phase. Just a little "gift" of our own.
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"Analysts and ex-officials" is code for 0bama holdover, i.e., the "Deep State" trying to get President Trump to make a BIG mistake prior to next year's election. While the YouTube video below was reported earlier in the month, I've seen various sources (Aircraft Spots) that track military planes worldwide saying the "spying" is increasing dramatically around the DPRK. BTW, another article claims that one of Kim Jong-un's peeps says the "Christmas surprise" was not a vase.
"U.S. again deploys tactical spy planes over Korean Peninsula: Aircraft Spots"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xyyZQVoyug