{"id":22857,"date":"2017-07-04T17:23:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T17:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22857"},"modified":"2017-07-04T17:23:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T17:23:23","slug":"north-korea-launches-icbm-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22857","title":{"rendered":"North Korea launches ICBM: What now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/trumptweets_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22858\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/trumptweets_0-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/trumptweets_0-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/trumptweets_0.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has done it. His military apparatus has launched an intercontinental ballistic missile &#8212; successfully at that!<\/p>\n<p>The communists in Pyongyang now apparently have the means to strike the United States with a nuclear weapon. Yes? U.S. military and intelligence officials are analyzing the launch.<\/p>\n<p>What is the U.S. option? None of them is good.<\/p>\n<p>A pre-emptive military strike is seemingly out of the question. It would provoke Kim Jong Un to launch an all-out war on the Korean Peninsula. And as MSBNC military analyst Jack Jacobs &#8212; a Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient &#8212; said this morning while referencing the capital of South Korea, &#8220;Seoul is just footsteps away from the demilitarized zone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/340591-trump-responds-to-north-korean-missile-tests-in-late-night-tweets\">Hit them economically<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jacobs believes strong economic sanctions are the most effective immediate answer to preventing North Korea from doing something amazingly stupid, which would be to provoke a war with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea is a poor nation that has spent almost all its national fiscal treasure on its military machine. The tinhorn dictator doesn&#8217;t care one bit, of course, about the citizens of his country.<\/p>\n<p>It would be easy to say that here is where Donald J. Trump would earn his presidential salary, except that Trump supposedly isn&#8217;t getting paid to be president.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just stick with the notion that the president needs to weigh his options &#8230; <em>very carefully.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has done it. His military apparatus has launched an intercontinental ballistic missile &#8212; successfully at that! The communists in Pyongyang now apparently have the means to strike the United States with a nuclear weapon. Yes? U.S. military and intelligence officials are analyzing the launch. What is the U.S. option? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22857\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">North Korea launches ICBM: What now?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,7174,2681,3335],"class_list":["post-22857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-icbm","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22859,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22857\/revisions\/22859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}