Senator Corker Says US Should Consider Preemptive Strike On North Korea’s ICBM Capability

Here is the latest opinion on what the US should do about North Korea:

Washington should consider preemptively striking North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), said U.S. Senator Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee and chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, during the committee’s first hearing this year on North Korea on Tuesday.

The comment comes amid rising tension in South Korea and the United States after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declared during his New Year’s address on Jan. 1 that his country was in its “final stage” of test-firing an ICBM, which would be the first of such tests if Kim actually follows through.

Seoul has yet to acknowledge detecting any signs that the North was preparing a test-fire, although several military sources here claim to have discovered two new missiles along North Korea’s eastern coast that could be an ICBM under work.   [Joong Ang Ilbo]

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setnaffa
7 years ago

Why do so many idiots want America to get into a shooting war in Asia?

Tyson
Tyson
Reply to  setnaffa
7 years ago

What’s the other option? Recognize North Korea as a nuclear state, then wait for them to sell their nukes to ISIS?

Tyson
Tyson
Reply to  GIKorea
7 years ago

GIKorea, here’s the other option with yet another new article from Doug Bandow advocating withdraw.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/secretary-mattis-should-stop-babying-south-korea-19306

JoeC
JoeC
7 years ago

The next time some politician wants to call for a preemptive strike somewhere they need to recall how well our last preemptive war worked out; in Iraq. They need to sit down with knowledgable people and brainstorm the secondary, tertiary and other cascading effects.

Will North Korea passively take a heavy military strike in their country and not respond or will they drop artillery into USFK military bases in the middle of heavily populated areas of South Korea?

Should it be done without any advanced warning, such as first evacuating military families and other US civilians?

Should we advise/consult the South Koreans first?

Will we destabilize South Korea, politically and economically?

Will we be creating an opportunity for China to increase its influence in the region in the same way that Iran was able to increase its regional influence after our misadventures in Iraq?

Those are just the few troubling questions that come to mind in 5 minutes of thought. I’m sure there are many more.

setnaffa
Reply to  JoeC
7 years ago

Especially when said chickenhawk isn’t sporting a DD-214…

Tyson
Tyson
Reply to  GIKorea
7 years ago

The US military is the regional balancer and the US benefits overall from this stability.

I guess what Bandow’s point is that the stability in Asia has not benefited the US, and therefore Asia is not a national interest to the US.

setnaffa
Reply to  Tyson
7 years ago

In that case Bandow’s a Posner-level arsehat.

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