Here's the problem as I see it: Trump is acting more and more unstable every day. He's likely going to be personally implicated (the way all this is presently Going) in the Russian Scandal. At that point it is in his best interests to nuke North Korea. However, he has no idea the real consequences of doing this. Also, this could happen during the Winter Games in South Korea and would be much more of an international incident because of this. But, more and more Trump is acting stranger and stranger each day. So, because of his mental instability he might nuke North Korea because of his needs to stay president rather than for our U.S. needs to stay safe from north Korean nukes which would be problematic beyond anything this country has ever had to endure.
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McMaster: Potential for war with North Korea 'increasing every day'
McMaster: Potential for war with North Korea 'increasing every day'
(CNN)White
House national security adviser HR McMaster said Saturday that North
Korea represents "the greatest immediate threat to the United States"
and that the potential for war with the communist nation is growing each
day.
"I think it's
increasing every day, which means that we are in a race, really, we are
in a race to be able to solve this problem," McMaster told an audience
at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California when
asked if North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile
Tuesday had increased the chance of war.
President
Donald Trump remains committed to the complete denuclearization of the
Korean Peninsula, McMaster said, adding that there are nonmilitary ways
to deal with the issue, such as calling on China to impose greater
economic sanctions against Pyongyang. McMaster noted that Beijing's
"tremendous coercive economic power" over North Korea.
"There
are ways to address this problem short of armed conflict, but it is a
race because he's getting closer and closer, and there's not much time
left," McMaster said, referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. With
every missile launch or nuclear test, Kim has improved his country's
capabilities, McMaster said.
"We're
asking China not to do us or anybody else a favor," he said. "We're
asking China to act in China's interest, as they should, and we believe
increasingly that it's in China's urgent interest to do more."
China
should take unilateral action to cut off North Korean oil imports,
McMaster said, adding, "you can't shoot a missile without fuel." He said
that both he and Trump felt that a 100% oil embargo would "be
appropriate at this point."
But the
national security adviser said Kim was extremely unlikely to change his
behavior "without some significant new actions in the form of much more
severe sanctions" and "complete enforcement of the sanctions that are
in place."
On military options,
McMaster acknowledged that given North Korea's fielding of conventional
artillery and rockets aimed at Seoul, South Korea, "there's no military
course of action that comes without risk." But he said that Pyongyang's
actions had made America's alliances with Japan and South Korea
"stronger than ever."
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