Secretary Hegseth Says Lessoned Learned from North Korea in Effort to Prevent Iran from Obtaining Nuclear Weapons
Hegseth is not wrong about his overall point in regards to North Korea developing nuclear weapons. What he is wrong about is why no prior president struck the Kim regime to stop their nuclear program. It was not because of ballistic missiles, it was because of the country’s massive artillery capacity located along the DMZ that effectively held the millions of people who live in the Seoul area hostage. No U.S. President was willing to strike the Kim regime’s nuclear program and put that many lives at risk from retaliation:
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday described North Korea’s menacing nuclear program as “the lesson” to learn, as he defended the U.S. military operation against Iran, which a Pentagon official said has cost an estimated $25 billion.
Hegseth made the remarks during a House Armed Services Committee hearing, stressing that Iran’s strategy to build nuclear weapons mirrors that of North Korea, as he pointed out that like Pyongyang, Tehran had been building a “conventional shield” of missiles to double down on its nuclear program.
“North Korea is the lesson. Everybody thought North Korea shouldn’t have a weapon,” he said.
“Under the Clinton administration, they gathered so many ballistic missiles that their ballistic missile shield allowed them to blackmail the region and the world (and) to say, ‘We’re going to get a nuke and you can’t do anything about it,'” he said.
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