North Korea THREAT: ‘NO MERCY!’ US needs to HIT Kim Jong-un SO HARD he CANNOT respond
NORTH KOREA needs to be hit so hard they cannot respond if the US and Kim Jong-un’s regime go to war, a former US Army General has warned.
Peters: US needs to win FAST if there's war with North Korea
North Korea will get “no mercy” if a war erupts between Kim Jong-un and the United States, Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters warned.
Speaking to Fox News, Lt. Col. Peters weighed in on a “risky strategy” the administration is considering called a “bloody nose strike”.
A bloody nose strategy is to reach to some nuclear or missile test with a targeted strike against a North Korean facility to blood Pyongyang’s nose and illustrate the high price the regime could pay for it’s behaviour.
The hope would be to make that point without inciting a full-bore reprisal by North Korea.
We don’t want a war with North Korea, but boy if we have to have one, we got to do it right and win it, and win it as fast as possible. No mercy
Lt. Col. Peters said: “That would be utterly stupid, a really really bad idea idea and it’s been attributed to H.R. McMaster which is very disappointing.
“But I’m sure Dep. Sec. Mattis would not go along with that.”
“If you try to do a bloody nose strike, a surgical strike, the North Korean’s would be compelled to respond and escalate and then we would have to decide whether we’re going to escalate.
“We don’t war with North Korea, we don’t want a military confrontation but if it comes to it, we have to protect American lives, we have to take military action.
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Lt. Col. Peters added that the US would have to hit North Korea “so hard” it could not respond.
He said: “You’ve got to do it right, you’ve got to do it comprehensively and broadly and hit them so hard that they cannot respond, cannot wage an attack on South Korea or Japan which they would do in the wake of a bloody nose surgical strike.”
“I mean this is ludicrous, it’s ludicrous thinking, it’s not strategic, it’s a fantasy world.
“Again, we don’t want a war with North Korea, but boy if we have to have one, we got to do it right and win it, and win it as fast as possible.
“No mercy.”
Vice-president, Mike Pence, issued a warning to Kim Jong-un.
He said: "The era of strategic patience is over.
“For literally two decades one administration after the other has exercised a level of patience and negotiation that has resulted in the dictatorship in North Korea developing ballistic missiles that may well threaten the United States as we speak.
“That’s unacceptable.”
He said: “We will continue to bring maximum economic and diplomatic pressure to bear until North Korea abandons its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes that threaten the United Stated of America.”