Do not trust Kim Jong Un. We are back to three options - Nuke them - Strangle them economically - or accept them as a new nuclear power. It is a stall. Nothing tangible is required or has been done and especially in terms of developing biological weapons. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/22/north-korea-attack-drones-can-strike-seoul-in-1-ho/" rel="nofollow - https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/22/north-korea-attack-drones-can-strike-seoul-in-1-ho/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/north-korea/" rel="nofollow - North Korea ’s
military has 300 to 400 attack drones capable of carrying biological
and chemical weapons that could reach the South Korean capital of Seoul
within one hour, according to a high-level defector from the isolated
regime ruling https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/pyongyang/" rel="nofollow - Pyongyang . The claim from a 42-year-old former third secretary who fled https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/kim-jong-un/" rel="nofollow - Kim Jong-un ’s regime in 2015 coincides with heightened international concern over a different threat from https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/north-korea/" rel="nofollow - North Korea : mobile, medium- to long-range missiles that https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/pyongyang/" rel="nofollow - Pyongyang has tested with increasing frequency. After
successfully launching one of the solid-fuel missiles Sunday, North
Korean leaders said they are ready to begin deploying and mass-producing
the Pukgukson-2 projectiles, which https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/pyongyang/" rel="nofollow - Pyongyang says are capable of reaching major U.S. military bases in https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/japan/" rel="nofollow - Japan . comment: Hitler was talking peace as they prepared to invade Poland. The only leverage we had to enforce an economic sanction on North Korea is China and we are currently implementing tariffs to offset a $500,000,000 dollar trade deficit. That is enough to finance the entire Chinese military budget. In the meantime, a virus may already have been released in the U.S. and we have no defense against it.
Our health care system is abysmal and falling apart - the Obama disaster whose premiums may triple in some cases. Not a good time to get hit by a bio-terrorist attack.
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