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    North Korea brings missile threat to the US: What does Trump do now?

    North Korea brings missile threat to the US: What does Trump do now?

    By Ben Westcott, CNN
    Updated 10:25 AM ET, Tue July 4, 2017

    Story highlights

    The ICBM test represents a failure of US North Korea policy, an analyst says
    Experts say Trump has few good options now on North Korea

    (CNN)US policy towards North Korea has entered an unpredictable new era, analysts say, after the rogue state announced it had tested a missile which could hit "anywhere in the world."

    Adam Mount, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, said US President Donald Trump had few good options to respond to North Korea.

    "It's a major threshold ... a really difficult question will be whether Donald Trump feels like he's (been) backed into a corner and doesn't have options short of war," he said.

    "I think what we'll have to grapple with in Washington is that none of our tactics or our levers mean the same thing anymore," Mount added.

    On Tuesday, North Korea announced on state television it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time -- something which has long been seen as a red line in already fraught bilateral relations.

    Euan Graham, director of the International Security Program at Sydney's Lowy Institute described the development as a foreign policy failure for the United States, going as far back as the Clinton administration.

    "It's a failure that goes beyond any one (US) administration," he said. "An ICBM actually takes the threat (of North Korea) right to the US homeland ... that's the dangerous dynamic that will be a driver for how the US responds," Graham said.

    North Korea has repeatedly in the past threatened to attack the United States with a nuclear weapon, which the regime claims it has technical capability to do.

    South Korea is working with the US to determine whether or not the missile was an ICBM, according to Cho Han-Gyu, the director of operations at South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.

    Trump in January: 'It won't happen'

    For months, there have been suggestions that an ICBM test by North Korea was imminent. In January, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced his country's missile program was continuing apace.

    "Research and development of the cutting-edge tech weapons are actively progressing and strengthening our defense capabilities," he said.

    Then President-elect, Donald Trump responded on Twitter, saying North Korea would not be allowed to create a nuclear weapon capable of hitting the US.

    "North Korea just started that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the US. It won't happen!" he said at the time.

    In April, at a celebration of North Korea's "Day of the Sun," a missile was paraded through the capital Pyongyang which one analysts said could have been a type of ICBM.

    "The US failed to prevent the North Koreans from reprocessing their nuclear material, they failed to prevent them from testing nuclear missiles and now we're at the threshold where the North Koreans has not just a basic missile but seven different types and all surprisingly sophisticated," said Graham.

    Learning to live with a nuclear-armed North Korea?

    Experts say there are no good options for the Trump administration to deal with a heavily-armed North Korea.

    "You can't try to stop North Korea crossing a threshold -- it's already crossed (it). What are the sanctions for? What do we get out of pressuring China or North Korea? I think we need to step back and rethink," Mount said.

    The preferred policy of diplomatic engagement pushed by new South Korean President Moon Jae-in was unlikely to be acceptable "for the time being," according to Mount, while a military strike remained "untenable."

    "It would be devastating and against the interests of the United States," he said, referring to the likely enormous loss of life in the South Korean capital Seoul, just across the North Korean border.

    Graham said the likely outcome might be learning to live with a nuclear, aggressive North Korea.

    "The inevitable end point will be that we do live with a nuclear North Korea with long-range missiles in some form and it is only a matter of time until that bitter pill is swallowed in Washington," he said. "(Either way) we've got no doubt a rocky road for the remainder of this year."

    What can China do?

    Trump has long advocated a policy of pushing China to pressure with its neighbor and tenuous ally, North Korea. After Tuesday's launch, he even suggested on Twitter they "put a heavy move" on the rogue state.

    But in the past week or so the US appears to have returned to a confrontational policy on China as it lost faith in Beijing's ability to put the brakes on Pyongyang.

    "I think it's now impossible for the Chinese to argue that they are positively restraining Kim Jong Un. If he has got to the threshold of an ICBM test and claimed that, then it shows he is not threatened by Chinese reactions or any further UN sanctions," Graham said.

    "It's a poke in the eye for China."

    But Graham said China was also likely to place blame on the United States, saying if only Trump had listened to their calls for the US to back down on South Korean drills in exchange for a freeze on North Korea nuclear and missile program this might not have happened.

    "I think the Chinese will try to dodge any blame and say 'We can't control North Korea,'" he said.

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    It is self-evident that there is no diplomacy or sanctions through China that can resolve this. Trump knows it too. He wanted to find out where China stood as an ally if we're threatened with a nuclear attack and China has made it clear where they stand. They don't want war on their soil, and they don't want North Korean refugees flooding into China. Until China is a target itself of North Korea, which it will never be, it will not engage on behalf of another country. Would it engage on behalf of the region? Probably not. There is no real connection between China and Japan or South Korea. There is this notion that because they are Asian there is some ethnic bond between these Asian countries, there is not. China hates Japan for what they did to China during WWII. The Koreans were actually part of the Japanese Empire during WWII, a Japanese colony from 1910 to 1945, which after the war, the US and Russia split up and Russia tookthe North into its bloc and the US took the South into our protection. China was not involved. Korea is a US-Russia deal, not a US-China deal.

    So, the relationship between China and North Korea is strictly a strategic economic Communist alliance to prevent refugees into China, promote the Communist ideology and to rattle the sabres at Russia more than anything else.

    The DemoQuacks and even some Republicans who want to rattle sabres at Russia over phony Russian meddling furthering the Russia Hoax to undermine this Presidency is really obscene given the realities of our foreign policy needs, the actual threats to the United States, and the important role of our ole ally Russia to help US resolve them.

    You wonder sometimes about the people we elect to Congress and what turnip truck they fell out of. You watch the CORRUPT MSM and realize a group of third graders would have better instincts to react and comment on what is going on. Then you realize, we're alone with one person who has the common sense, intelligence, temperament and loyalty to the American People and possibly hopefully one Ole Ally remaining to deal with this.

    Merkel is obsessed with Muslim refugees and climate change.

    Macron is obsessed with EU acceptance.

    Britain is obsessed with Muslim equality.

    Italy is obsessed with pleasing the Pope.

    Canada and Australia are obsessed with political correctness right up to the point where it impacts their countries.

    Mexico, Central America and South America are obsessed with riding whatever boat they can hitch a ride on.

    For now we're alone. Will we have an ole ally on our side? We'll know after Friday's meeting.
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    People need to understand that we are alone here. No one is going to help US solve this threat. No one wants the bad PR, no one wants to risk the money or lives to eliminate this threat which is not a threat to them, only to the USA. Japan perhaps, South Korea a little bit, but only to the extent that their support pushes US to take the action and incur the consequences. I can remember clearly when Condoleeza Rice had the North Koreans ready to sign the nuclear non-proliferation agreement years ago and tabled it over some stupid counterfeiting deal with some foreign bank. You can't measure stupid this stupid.

    There is no diplomatic solution to this problem at this point, because there is no diplomatic solution you could trust or depend on at this point. We have no reliable INTEL in North Korea, and I'm really questioning these days whether we have any reliable INTEL anywhere. I believe North Korea already has the nuclear warhead, they just hadn't refined their long-range missile accuracy. I also believe that when they do that which I think today's test has done, the range of their missiles isn't Alaska, it's the US mainland. So, we're staring a black hole in the face and are the only ones to deal with it, on our own. The longer we wait, the more prepared they will be, with no gain for our side by the delay.

    But I'm just thrilled our US Senate and US House Intelligence Committees have spent the last 9 months on the hunt for TIES TO RUSSIA and the RUSSIA MEDDLING HOAX, aren't you? Did you hear the news the other day that the "INTEL" about the "Russian interference without democracy" was actually anonymous reports in the New York Times??!! Yeah, that was the source for our INTEL community.
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