Air armada: The impressive show of force was designed to demonstrate the strength of the American-South Korean alliance against North Korea
Edward Luttwak, Foreign Policy: It’s Time to Bomb North Korea
Destroying Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal is still in America’s national interest.
Nothing can be known about this week’s talks between North and South Korea other than their likely outcome. As in every previous encounter, South Korea will almost certainly reward North Korea’s outrageous misconduct by handing over substantial sums of money, thus negating long-overdue sanctions recently imposed by the United Nations Security Council. Meanwhile, the North will continue to make progress toward its goal of deploying several nuclear-armed, mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, having already tested nuclear-explosive devices in October 2006, May 2009, February 2013, January 2016, September 2016, and September 2017.
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WNU Editor: I have been following Edward Luttwak since the 1980s .... he has not changed at all in the past 30 years. As to his commentary above .... I have no words to say how awful such a course of action would be at this point of time.
Update: Tillerson and Mattis are reportedly trying to hold Trump back from striking North Korea (Business Insider).