{"id":50859,"date":"2017-11-06T07:54:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T07:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=50859"},"modified":"2017-11-06T07:54:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T07:54:48","slug":"us-will-invade-north-korea-purge-pyongyang-nukes-generals-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/us-will-invade-north-korea-purge-pyongyang-nukes-generals-warn.html","title":{"rendered":"US will have to INVADE North Korea to purge Pyongyang of nukes, generals warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">US will have to INVADE North Korea to purge Pyongyang of nukes, generals warn<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">US will have to INVADE North Korea to purge Pyongyang of nukes, generals warn:- In a letter believed to have been written by the vice director of the Pentagon\u2019s Joint Staff, defence experts raised the prospect of war in the Korean peninsula as the only viable solution to ending the threat from Pyongyang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The memo was written in response to a request from two Congress members asking for &#8220;expected casualty assessments in a conflict with North Korea&#8221;, the Washington Post reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">It said the only way of definitely finding Kim&#8217;s weapons bases was by ground invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Such an action would almost certainly inspire a catastrophic response from the dictator, who is known to also be harbouring a stockpile chemical and biological weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">However the letter also expressed a preference for US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to continue his diplomatic route of applying sanctions and economic pressure on the rogue state in a bid to derail its weapons programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">A statement was signed by 16 Congressmen accompanying the letter and also seen by the Post concludes that the assessment &#8220;underscores what we\u2019ve known all along: There are no good military options for North Korea\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">President Donald Trump has threatened North Korea repeatedly with military action if the country ever attacked US soil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The commander-in-chief touched down in Japan today, for the start of a 12-day trip to Asia where the Korean crisis is expected to dominate discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">He ramped up his rhetoric against Pyongyang leader Kim almost immediately, telling soldiers at the Yokota Air Base near Tokyo: &#8220;No dictator, no regime, no nation should ever underestimate American resolve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;Every once in a while, in the past, they underestimated us. 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