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What If America Assassinated Kim Jong-un?
The National Interest ^ | Daniel R. DePetris

Posted on 04/18/2017 3:54:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It would never go that far.


21 posted on 04/18/2017 4:24:16 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: nickcarraway

What if the Norks nuke Pearl Harbor or Tokyo?


22 posted on 04/18/2017 4:25:35 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: nickcarraway

Believe me, anyone but Kim Jong un in power is far better to deal with

This article articulates what’s called “wishful thinking” that some day Kim Jong Un would give up the bomb somehow.

The risk is that one day America has to deal with Kim Jong un with advanced nuclear weapon and delivery system

That may be kind of stalemate to create peace... if America let Kim Jong un take over the South Korea


23 posted on 04/18/2017 4:30:44 PM PDT by Lee25
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That is what I remember too. I think Gerald Ford had a hand in legislation outlawing the assisination of a foreign head of state.


24 posted on 04/18/2017 4:33:08 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Kimmy’s lucky Trump didn’t MOAB his ass along with the rest of his posse of generals and lackeys and swooning crowds. Wham. Can we do it from space yet? /rhetorical


25 posted on 04/18/2017 4:34:14 PM PDT by pingman ( Go Trump! Best Election, EVAH!)
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To: Fiji Hill

Not if they show up the next rally with a red dot painted on his chest.


26 posted on 04/18/2017 4:34:33 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Bon mots

IIRC it is against American law to assassinate a foreign head of state.
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Not if you’re Hillary Clinton.
We came, we saw, he died.


Exactly. and the witch laughed her wicked laugh.


27 posted on 04/18/2017 4:37:57 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives.have diseased minds.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

IIRC it is against American law to assassinate a foreign head of state.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Unless there is a Presidential finding that it needs to be done and executive order 12333 ( Reagan) is revoked.(That executive order does not restrict military options.)

Good Read on the subject:

https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/law/lawreviews/journals/bciclr/26_1/01_TXT.htm


28 posted on 04/18/2017 4:46:40 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is not illegal; Reagan signed an executive order against it, but it has never been codified into law:

https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/law/lawreviews/journals/bciclr/26_1/01_FMS.htm


29 posted on 04/18/2017 4:46:46 PM PDT by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is true that those North Koreans that defected have not been crazy, but those defectors are not representatives of the country’s masses.

You cannot discount half a century of communist programming and propaganda. North Korea needs at least 1 full generation of effective quarantine and de-programming. After WWII, Germany and Japan unconditionally surrendered with their leadership either killed off (like Nazis) or neutered (like the Emperor). If North Korea does not go through at least that, there will be bigger problems at hand than the pork chop threatening to launch missiles.


30 posted on 04/18/2017 4:54:01 PM PDT by sagar
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To: gaijin
“We knock off that ONE GUY and it’s OVER..!"

This is similar to the "Nuke Mecca" mind set. Neither will stop the rest of the nut cases.

31 posted on 04/18/2017 4:55:48 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Make US Intelligence great again!)
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To: nickcarraway

Then he completes the holy triad of war. Precise (Syria), Powerful (MOAB), and Decapitation of the enemy leadership) NK.

I wonder how it would sound in the media? NK leader dies in his sleep? Will he catch a disease that kills in 3-6 months?


32 posted on 04/18/2017 5:00:11 PM PDT by Fhios
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To: nickcarraway

North Korea remains in a state of war with the south, and the US through membership in the UN. No permanent treaty exists. Kim Jong Un is the head of the armed forces of NK so is therefore fair game. Giving the South Koreans a missile and coordinates would alleviate any legal handwringing.


33 posted on 04/18/2017 5:03:47 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Dick Bachert

Mr. B, your video is required svp.


34 posted on 04/18/2017 5:05:11 PM PDT by onona (Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
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To: sagar
Yup, they'd need to be thoroughly de-kimified, much like de-nazification, or de-shintoized.
35 posted on 04/18/2017 5:06:07 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Lee25

>Believe me, anyone but Kim Jong un in power is far better to deal with<

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Did you say the same about Saddam Hussein?

The Iraqi Christians have a very low opinion of GWB — Christians were not persecuted by SH.


36 posted on 04/18/2017 5:12:01 PM PDT by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: nickcarraway
Not easy for the U.S. to do. Our HUMINT in North Koreo is limited.

China on the other hand has the intel and operation apparatus needed. China most likely already has a successor chosen.

37 posted on 04/18/2017 5:12:19 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Bon mots

That link is hideously fantastic..!

I have heard that whole beat over 20 times.

HUGELY appropriate, that woman is a MONSTER.


38 posted on 04/18/2017 5:14:37 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin
Right.

The North Koreans are deeply traumatize and brainwashed...and would be completely lost if and when Kim is removed.

A massive humanitarian effort will be required.

That said, people heal quickly.

Better to free them than to let them die or be killed.

Kim is a Jim Jones on a much larger scale.

39 posted on 04/18/2017 5:16:07 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: nickcarraway

This might sound contrarian, but I would imagine Kim surrounds himself with the most zealous military commanders. That’s who he would want if it comes to a fight. Keeping with that theme...and certainly in a relative sense...Kim is the voice of moderation. So, he has to portray a high level of bluster for his insanely loyal cadre that wishes to kill the capitalist pigs with plans hatched daily or hourly.

Upper management has to go.

Let’s not forget Kim has at least two fission reactors deep in the North, their scourched earth policy could be two Chernobyls...in every way exasperated and unmitigated for months or maybe years. The Russians didn’t have to fight a war to get to and mitigate the Chernobyl disaster.


40 posted on 04/18/2017 5:16:19 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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