RET. GENERAL: BOMBING NORTH KOREA POSSIBLY ONLY OPTION LEFT
Efforts to pressure China for help likely to end in failure, he says
Clifford Cunningham
Infowars.com
APRIL 4, 2017
A retired general, who turned down President Donald Trump’s offer to be Secretary of Defense, suggested a preemptive strike on North Korea’s nuclear facilities “may be the only option left.”
“A pre-emptive strike against launch facilities, underground nuclear sites, artillery and rocket response forces and regime leadership targets may be the only option left on the table,” retired four-star General Jack Keane told The Times on Tuesday.
“We are rapidly and dangerously moving towards a military solution.”
Keane, who currently serves as military analyst for Fox News, suggested that President Donald Trump’s future effort to pressure Chinese President Xi Jinping to level additional sanctions on North Korea will end in failure.
“Our attempts to leverage China in the past have failed miserably,” he said. “Sanctions have not worked against North Korea and I doubt more sanctions will and I don’t believe sanctions against China will work any better.”
K.T. McFarland, the deputy White House National Security Advisor, warned the likelihood of North Korea developing the technology to mount a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile was growing.
“There is a real possibility that North Korea will be able to hit the U.S. with a nuclear-armed missile by the end of the first Trump term,” she said.
President Donald Trump suggested he is ready to address North Korea’s continued development of nuclear weapons and aggressive rhetoric with, or without, the assistance of the Chinese government.
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