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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A North Korean submarine capable of launching a nuke would be sunk as soon as it went into launch sequence by the American hunter/killer sub the will shadow it wherever it goes.
Trump seen this. He’s trying to build our military back up as where Obama tried to destroy it. Obama was trying to make it easy for them to conquer us. Well, we got work to do, and assess to kick.
Tbanks dems lets trust our enemy again lol stupid fuckers believe the world is a big hippie fairytale with no body not thinkin like them.oh because im against war the world will be too cause im a liberal.an now that im in power they will all b love an peace.yea after they wipe your weak$#%&!@*out. # know your neighbors intentions.
Let’s think about this. The US can track submarines throughout the world with our array of sono-buoys and sea floor “listening devices. North Korea has diesel-electric submarines that are quite noisy. Their rockets are a bit iffy in quality and it is possible that some third agent nation has hacked their missile control and can detonate the missiles just after launch.
China is flexing its muscles in the South China Sea but do they actually have the resources to fight a sea war? I think not.
Smoke screens by the shadow government pointing fingers every which way,and keeping everyone blind to their global Conquest
Iran is a bigger threat right now, but it won’t be long before N.K. is.
Fear mongering
Our enemies are and always will be Russia and China.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY
‘Zactly, Communism is going to be very expensive on their part…