John Bolton Reportedly Believes a Military Strike Against North Korea is a Viable Option
This article makes me wonder if this is just more fake news or John Bolton signaling to North Korea that the US is serious enough about North Korea denuclearization to consider a military strike:
John Bolton, U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, still believes that a military strike on North Korea is a viable option as denuclearization talks between Washington and Pyongyang are stalled, The New Yorker reported earlier this week.
Joong Ang Ilbo
Citing unnamed U.S. government officials, the magazine said in its profile of Bolton published on Monday that Bolton privately told White House aides that the second U.S.-North summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, was unlikely to succeed.
Despite months of engagement with the North and Trump’s bragging about falling in “love” with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Bolton, according to the article, still believes that a strike is possible because the United States knows where most of North Korea’s nuclear weapons are.
“We can still do it,” a U.S. administration official cited Bolton as saying. “We know where most, if not all, of their weapons are. We could destroy their nuclear capability. There are ways to deal with their artillery.”
When asked about potential casualties, Bolton said he “wishes we weren’t at this point. But the military option remains viable.”
Other White House officials, on the other hand, are realizing that military force is not a realistic option, the source added.
“I think we could have destroyed the North’s nuclear program in the 1990s. It was more concentrated and we knew where everything was,” the official said. “Not anymore. It’s too big and too dispersed.”
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And just like that…we are back to the status quo.
Bolton is probably the biggest hawk in the current administration. If he had his biggest wet dream, we would launch a nuclear first strike against North Korea, Cuba, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and probably a few countries in the Middle East. Then of course he would go hide with the administration somewhere to wait out the counter strike from Russia.
Bolton is a card kin Trump’s hand. He’s paid to play bad cop…