You know it’s true, because you saw it on the internet:
On March 1, the WSJ reported that the options contemplated by the White House in response to recent North Korean acts, include “the possibility of both military force and regime change to counter the country’s nuclear-weapons threat.” The review came es amid recent events have strained regional stability including last month’s launch by North Korea of a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, and the assassination of the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Malaysia.
And, according to a report in Yonhap, said “regime change” may come far sooner than expected: the South Korean website writes that U.S. special operations forces, including the unit that killed Osama Bin Laden, will take part in joint military drills in South Korea “to practice incapacitating North Korean leadership in the case of conflict”, a military official said Monday.
The U.S. Navy’s Special Warfare Development Group, better known as the SEAL Team 6, will arrive in South Korea for joint military drills and take part in an exercise simulating a precision North Korean incurion and “the removal of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un”, according to the Ministry of National Defense Monday.
The U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six will join the annual Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercises between the two allies for the first time, along with the Army’s Rangers, Delta Force and Green Berets.
This is a warning to China, that they will suffer great embarrassment if the US has to clean up the mess in their own area of influence. Watch for China to begin to move much faster to resolve that problem. In their eyes President Trump is a wildman, who could decide to do anything – and accomplish it to boot. This just moved North Korea to the top of China’s pile.
My guess is everyone is worrying that Jong-Un may be unraveling, so the US is trying to push China to take him out now with a coup. It will not get any easier if he steps over the line. If the next ballistic missile test, which he intended to pass over Tokyo and crash in the ocean, ends up falling short and taking out a Japanese skyscraper, he will go into high amygdala. Once that happens he will go to ground, and dealing with him through a peaceful coup will be much less of an option.
At the same time, the high amygdala he will enter, and maybe effects of a possible addiction to boot, will crush any vestige of reasonableness and logicality that we see in him today. At that point, he could assume it is all over, and just begin firing across the DMZ to do as much damage as he can before he cashes out.
As always, The Trump administration is on top of things, and moving the chess pieces long before the real crises begin.
Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because Jong-Un doesn’t have long
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Good post. It’s also possible that Trump is actually planning on toppling the NK government to some degree at least.
If successful, millions of refugees would stream into China, and that would be a serious issue for them. So much perhaps, that it would hamper their expansionism in the South China Sea, and take their bluster down a notch. Not a bad strategic play.
What do you think would happen to North Korea if Kim Jong-Un get’s taken out or dies? Does the society just replace him with a new leader or changes the type of government? Does it matter who takes this guy out? China, Usa, internal or somewhere else.
China will be ruthless enough to install a stable government by force. If the US took him out, I think we’d feel the need to impose a democratic government, and given these people presently believe that sickly beachball with a toupee is some kind of demi-god, I fear they would be no better at electing leaders right now that a middle eastern country.
If he were taken out internally, which I’d doubt, it is tough to say what would happen.
I believe that you right on what China and the Us would do. Back in the 60s the Us foreign policy would have no problem installing a dictator but not in the current year. Internal would be interesting since it would probably be a military take over. What would make it different than china or us would be the concern of betrayal, assassination and foreign influences such as China enterning. The new leader might even consider destorying the border wall between north and south, opening relations with the south or worst for china opening up relations with the Us. This would cause panic to both China, South Korea and even Japan which is probably why the leader Kim is still in charge. Could you image what problems the South would have if the North open up? The fear in Japan or China of a new united Korea? Only people that benfit are the Us government and the people living in North Korean
I was thinking about how I would handle it as President, and the best plan I could come up with for military action that didn’t result in full-blown war and destruction of Seoul was this — carpet bomb the DMZ.
It doesn’t kill anyone, but it demines the whole thing. The mines are there to keep the NorK people north, not to keep the south from invading. If they could reliably get past the DMZ, that might be the best chance for collapse, and collapse is the best case scenario.
That’s pretty brilliant.
It’s NUCLEAR mines.
Same type as they use in their nuclear test; produced in Hungnam a.k.a. Konan(jap.); the Japanese nuclear complex during WW2 inherited by North Korea. Before evacuating the Japanese had one successful test of a nuke they made there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungnam
wikipedia only admits a fertilizer factory. In fact, huge chemical factories, including Uranium enrichment. The Japanese built it there because of the Uranium deposits in the area.