In a compelling piece by William Patalon III for Money Morning, he tackles the words of Admiral Harry Harris, commander of the U.S. Pacific basin, pointing out that the naval officer had highlighted three immediate risks to the United States in regards to North Korea.
Risk 1: That North Korea will succeed in its efforts to create sub-launched ballistic missiles – an achievement that will put the Mainland United States within range of the threats being made by Pyongyang’s Kim Jong Un.
Risk 2: That China’s militarization of the South China Sea – coupled with its lack of “transparency” (military speak for “we have no damned idea how far they will push things”) – creates a major risk for America and its allies in the Pacific Rim.
Risk 3: And that China and Russia will succeed in creating conventional and nuclear-tipped “hypersonic” weapons – leapfrogging U.S. leadership (and stalled programs) in these areas, resulting in a new-and-real threat that the American military can’t currently defend against.
Kim Jong-un, a man of questionable sanity (as well as deity) has said that he intends on striking the United States and its allies with nuclear weapons. Admiral Harris believes that to be a true statement and takes the North Korean leader at his word. In a lively exchange with Senators and Representatives in Congress, the Admiral went so far as to assure the lawmakers that he disagreed vehemently with their sentiments that Pyongyang would never use nuclear technology against us.
For his part, he went so far as to warn Hawaii to begin beefing up its missile defense systems for fear that they may be an early target.
Admiral Harris’ fear was no so much for those intercontinental missiles fired from the Korean peninsula, so much as those that could be launched by submarines much closer to home.
As for the South China Sea, America has been in a battle of dominance and presence in this body of water for decades. China has claimed that the entire ocean is its to command and to patrol and enforce. The United States has been keeping close tabs on Chinese construction there of artificial islands as military bases, as well as its enforcement on other nations of no-fly zones which encroach upon the very reaches of the Antarctic.
The biggest threat, however, is that of the third risk, which is the construction by China of so-called “hypersonic” weapons.
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we keep destroying our Constitution, it won’t matter.
All three of those threats have something in common. That is the word IF.
The constitution been destroyed long time ago people worried bout guns u have guns but can’t ev use them to protect ur self without going to prison
BS
Biggest threat is our errors in handling nuclear arms and nuclear material. We will accidentally creat our own dirty bomb.
We have failed God in America by believing there can be PEACE in this current world. Not possible until Christ returns so why try to buy PEACE with countries who promise to destroy us.
The biggest threat to this country is the “domestic enemy”, until we can eradicate liberal theology from our government we will continue to maintain a “head in the sand” posture related to our vulnerabilities.
Where is the diplomacy? When there are no peace talks, how can we stay away from war? The media’s make it look like, it is one person, so why is it so hard to take one person out? As far as I read in the medias, the talks were never really there, or broken because of threats, long time ago. Were there even tried to get talks going? I am not a pacifist, but I also believe real deeply, war is the very last thing to get into.
GREED, LIES and THEIF!
Looks like we left our guards down for years. With our military. While the rest of the world has been building there military up to be able to destroy the US. Wake up America.