Surgical US Strike Would Only ‘Make North Korea Madder’
SputnikNews.com
15.05.2017
Donald Trump has indicated that all options are on the table when it comes to resolving the North Korean issue, including diplomacy and the use of force, but Stephen Hoadley, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, told Radio Sputnik that there is no military solution to this crisis.
“The military option is simply not viable, because North Koreans are well-fortified. They have a large number of installations scattered across their country. They are determined to fight. The United States with all of its military might simply does not have a good option. A surgical strike would not accomplish anything except make North Koreans even madder,” he said.
In fact, all punitive measures are bad, he added. A military option could lead to great loss of life, while additional economic sanctions are likely to leave North Koreans without food and fuel.
In addition, “South Koreans are still under the guns and short-range missiles of North Korea. That’s not going to go away,” Hoadley said, pointing to extra challenges. “Would there be a possibility that South Korea would begin looking at nuclear weapons acquisition itself? And if the South Koreans get nuclear weapons, would the Japanese follow the same route? Would there be a tense nuclear weapons standoff overlaying the current conventional weapons standoff?”
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