US may launch strike if North Korea moves to test nuclear weapon

[Aegon]

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/328780...pon-report

The U.S. is reportedly ready to launch a preemptive strike against North Korea if officials believe Pyongyang is going to go through with a nuclear weapons test.

Citing multiple senior U.S. intelligence officials, NBC News reported Thursday that the U.S. is prepared to launch the strike against North Korea with conventional weapons.

Officials said a nuclear test could come as soon as this weekend, according to NBC.

The U.S. has two destroyers that can shoot Tomahawk cruse missiles in the area, according to the network. One of the destroyers is located 300 miles from the North Korean nuclear test site.
There are also American heavy bombers located in Guam. Earlier this week, it was reported that the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group was headed to that area.

In a statement Thursday, North Korea issued a warning to the U.S. — should it take action — of a "merciless retaliatory strike."

"By relentlessly bringing in a number of strategic nuclear assets to the Korean peninsula, the US is gravely threatening the peace and safety and driving the situation to the brink of a nuclear war," North Korea's statement said.

South Korea foreign minister Yun Byung said U.S. officials have "repeatedly reaffirmed that" the U.S. "will closely discuss with South Korea its North Korea-related measures."

"In fact, the U.S. is working to reassure us that it will not, just in case that we might hold such concerns."

President Trump on Thursday tweeted that he has "great confidence that China will properly deal with North Korea." 

"If they are unable to do so, the U.S., with its allies, will! USA," the president tweeted.

Fun times ahead

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Way to justify the Dear Leader to his own people. His family's been yakking at the masses for years that the US wants to obliterate them. What is a greater vindication of that than parking a flotilla of warships off the coast and threatening missile strikes?

Fuxxake, don't ANY of Trump's inner circle have the nards to pull him aside and say, 'Careful, boss - if you do this then that might happen, which could prompt you know who to do you know what.'

Christ on a bike, I've never seen such staggering governmental incompetence at such a level and I grew up in NI.

Boru

[brewer]

Who will blink first?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Who will blink first?

Impossible to say. Kim is unhinged (clearly) and Trump is a blustering bully. Kim isn't going to back down from a scheduled nuke test, and Trump won't be able to back down from the strike due to his Tiny Penis Syndrome. If the US attacks the test site, Kim is likely to launch an attack on Seoul (he could do that with conventional forces), and then we are all of us in the shit.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Elect a clown,
Expect a circus.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Elect a clown,
Expect a circus.

T-SHIRT OF THE WEEK!!!  

Boru

[vorlon13]

Wiki notes a per capita annual income for North Koreans of around $1000. I'm thinking the financial burden on those poor people to support Kim's erectile dysfunction is pretty fucking onerous.

[Minimalist]

Who cares if the peasants starve?

[brewer]

If it's going to be another underground nuke test I say fuck it. The US can flex all it wants but that should not be enough to provoke an attack. Just get everyone on board to strangle the country. 

The time to get worked up is when it's believed they have perfected and attempt delivery.

[vorlon13]

Kim's regime explains to the populace subsisting on grain from sacks with US labels on them that the grain is sent to NK as tribute. Not out of pity for their pitiful existence.