Bush 41 official: If N. Korea attacked, it ‘would be vaporized’
‘1 decent nuke over there, and the country is just gone’
GREG COROMBOS
WND.com
3/6/2016
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un is ordering his military to have the rogue nation’s nuclear weapons ready to launch, and while a former Pentagon official believes the communist nation may start a war down the road, he does not see this latest action as more than an empty threat.
Jed Babbin served as a deputy undersecretary of defense for President George H.W. Bush and believes Jong-un’s actions are merely in response to the United Nations Security Council unanimously approving new sanctions against his regime. He said an attempt to nuke South Korea, Japan or any other nation would be met with a devastating, immediate response.
“Their country would be vaporized immediately and, quite frankly, there ain’t much to vaporize,” Babbin told WND and Radio America. “That place is in the stone age. The only place that’s even lit at night is the capital city of Pyongyang. One decent nuke over there, and the country is just gone.”
There’s another reason Babbin thinks this is a bluff. He believes, despite aggressive testing, North Korea is not yet ready to launch a nuclear missile.
“It’s a big deal to develop a nuclear weapon,” he said. “It’s a big deal to develop an ICBM. However, to get an ICBM mated with a small enough nuclear weapon that will survive the G-forces in the takeoff of a missile and actually be able to re-enter the atmosphere and successfully detonate a nuclear weapon, that’s probably several years beyond what these guys can do.”
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