missmuffet Posted February 12, 2017 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,990 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,688 Content Per Day: 11.83 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted February 12, 2017 North Korea has just tested a ballistic missile. How do you think the WH will react to that? http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-whitehouse-idUSKBN15R0NB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bible2 Posted February 13, 2017 Group: Senior Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 642 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 405 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/08/2010 Status: Offline Share Posted February 13, 2017 Regarding missmuffet's comment: "North Korea has just tested a ballistic missile. How do you think the WH will react to that?": Do you mean besides mere verbal condemnations? If so, there is not much that the WH can do, for at least a couple of reasons. First, were the WH to bomb North Korea's missile facilities, NK could then bombard Seoul with thousands of rockets and missiles, killing hundreds of thousands of South Koreans. Second, the ultimate power behind NK could be not China, which is almost universally assumed, but Russia. For Medvedev met with Kim Jong Un, in a train in Siberia, right after Un came to power. And Medvedev could have ingratiated himself with Un by promising to protect NK from the U.S. by secretly helping NK to develop nuclear weapons and ICBMs and SLBMs, which could be used as a threat against the U.S. should it ever attack or invade NK. ---------- Regarding the U.S. strengthening its Pacific allies, this would be done through providing them with robust ballistic-missile defenses such as THAAD and Aegis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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