Report: US May Launch Preemptive Strike If North Korea Moves Toward Nuclear Test

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) transits the Mediterranean Sea on March 9, 2017. The United States fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria Thursday nigh... In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) transits the Mediterranean Sea on March 9, 2017. The United States fired a barrage of cruise missiles into Syria Thursday night in retaliation for this week’s gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians, the first direct American assault on the Syrian government and Donald Trump’s most dramatic military order since becoming president. The Tomahawk missiles were fired from warships USS Porter and USS Ross in the Mediterranean Sea. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/U.S. Navy via AP) MORE LESS
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The United States may launch a preemptive strike using conventional weapons if North Korea moves toward a nuclear weapons test, NBC News reported on Thursday, citing unnamed senior U.S. intelligence officials.

Per the report, those officials said that the United States has two destroyers in the area which are capable of launching Tomahawk cruise missiles, and U.S. heavy bombers are also positioned in Guam. The strike could also include “could include missiles and bombs, cyber and special operations on the ground,” NBC News reported.

North Korea warned in a statement on Thursday quoted in the report that the United States was “driving the situation to the brink of a nuclear war.”

President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday that he had “great confidence that China will properly deal with North Korea.”

Asked later the same day if he thought dropping a Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb in Afghanistan sent a message to North Korea, Trump replied: “I don’t know.”

“It doesn’t make any difference if it does or not,” he said.

NBC News reported, citing unnamed U.S. officials, that North Korea could carry out a nuclear test as early as this weekend.

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  1. For the love of God, keep him away from the chocolate cake.

  2. Like the confidence you had in Flynn, Manafort, and Page. Like the Confidence you had that repealing and replacing Obamacare would be simple, etc.

    Also, which allies would those be?

  3. Avatar for ghost ghost says:

    He’s going to get a whole lot of people killed. Maybe not here, but a whole lot of people somewhere.

  4. He’s about to demonstrate his love for the South Korean people. See ya, Seoul.

  5. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    Trump’s razor. I would hate to be living in South Korea these days.

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