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'No Option': Former Intelligence Chief Says US Needs To Accept North Korea's Nuclear Capability
Business Insider ^ | 1-2-2017 | David Choi

Posted on 01/02/2018 6:32:37 PM PST by blam

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper gave sobering assessment of North Korea's efforts to advance its nuclear and missile capabilities during an interview with CNN on Tuesday.

"That train left station a long time ago," Clapper said of North Korea's willingness to halt its weapons program. "The North Koreans are not going to denuclearize."

Clapper's comments stood in contrast to a fiery warning from the US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who said on Tuesday that the US would not take talks between South Korea and North Korea seriously after South Korea proposed holding high-level talks between the two nations at the North-South Korean border.

"We won't take any of the talks seriously if they don't do something to ban all nuclear weapons in North Korea," Haley said during a press conference Tuesday. "We consider this to be a reckless regime, we don't think we need a Band-Aid and we don't think we need to smile and take a picture."

"So North Korea can talk with anyone they want but the US is not going to recognize it or acknowledge it until they agree to ban the nuclear weapons that they have," Haley continued.

north korea missile An intermediate-range ballistic missile test in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) May 22, 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS

South Korea's willingness to negotiate with North Korea came after the annual New Year's Day speech given by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un who, according to Reuters, said that he was "open to dialogue" with South Korea, which is set to host the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.

But Kim Jong Un's remarks also accompany new reports that North Korea may be staging another missile test in the coming days, military officials told NBC News.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: axisofevil; clapper; jamesclapper; moderatemuslims; moron; northkorea; nuclear; rop; trump
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To: blam

Perhaps if Trump tells the world he sees no option but to give the go ahead for South Korea and Japan to develop their own nuke missiles, China might discover that there are more options. Like Kim developing some additional holes in his head.


21 posted on 01/02/2018 6:49:17 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Yes.

He was trashed up until the time the Soviet Union splintered. Then they refused to give him credit, and said it wasn’t related to things he had done.

Typical Leftists refusing to admit anything is true, that contradicts their twisted view of life.


22 posted on 01/02/2018 6:52:24 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
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To: blam
"That train left station a long time ago," Clapper said of North Korea's willingness to halt its weapons program. "The North Koreans are not going to denuclearize."

Clapper's pretty proud of his part in allowing this.

23 posted on 01/02/2018 6:57:35 PM PST by VeniVidiVici
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To: blam
James "Wrong Way" Clapper.


24 posted on 01/02/2018 7:05:33 PM PST by Maceman (We need a temporary ban on Muslims just until churches and synagogues can be built in Mecca.)
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To: blam

Proven lier walking free. Disgusting POS.


25 posted on 01/02/2018 7:06:35 PM PST by DAC21
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To: blam

Clapper = idiot. At best you can count the number of ICBMs that NK has on one hand . One day, they all go kablooie along with production and nuke facilities. What’s the rotund dictat gonna do? Is he gonna restart the Korean war? DUh shocked Dictator better think it through. Good chance he doesn’t.


26 posted on 01/02/2018 7:12:39 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: blam

Clapper, you’re a pu$$y. Run before Trump grabs you!


27 posted on 01/02/2018 7:13:39 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: blam

Well.... lil Kim wants to eat at the Big Boy’s table. No problem. BUT... if you sit at the table, you have to split the bill.


28 posted on 01/02/2018 7:13:40 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: dp0622

[What’s Korean for Chamberlain?]

“James Clapper”?


29 posted on 01/02/2018 7:17:25 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: TigersEye

I was just thinking basically that, about 1 minute ago....


30 posted on 01/02/2018 7:18:09 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Teotwawki

Just like Neville Chamberlain... it just took a little longer for the depth of the failure to become apparent.

It was, however, obvious that when Clinton made this “agreement” with N. Korea, he essentially gave them a green light to go forward with nuclear weapons development. Only a blind fool could have thought otherwise.


31 posted on 01/02/2018 7:18:17 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: blam

Clapper is a poster child of a failed, washed up, sleuth who never got anything right.


32 posted on 01/02/2018 7:22:10 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: blam

Clapper and Brennan are the kinds of government intelligence employees you get after you have exhausted the pool of street winos to hire to fill slots.


33 posted on 01/02/2018 7:25:17 PM PST by chuckee
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To: blam

“To Accept North Korea’s Nuclear Capability”

If you give a three year old child, a loaded revolver, is that when you recognize the mistake?

rwood


34 posted on 01/02/2018 7:25:25 PM PST by Redwood71
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To: All

Clapper and Brennan need to be given a fair trial - and then shot.


35 posted on 01/02/2018 7:31:56 PM PST by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: blam

These are the fruits of “strategic patience”....a nuclear Nork. Thanks Mr. Crapper.


36 posted on 01/02/2018 7:34:02 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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James “what bombing?” Clapper


37 posted on 01/02/2018 7:38:29 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: SaveFerris

ROFLMAO!!!!


38 posted on 01/02/2018 7:49:10 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: blam

Clapper’s problem is that he and his fellow travelers hate President Donald Trump far more than that fat evil slob of a tyrant in Pee-yong-yang.

Clapper was a great spymaster, if you include spying domestically on Obama and Hillary’s opponents.

Someday, God willing, he will be completely exposed.


39 posted on 01/02/2018 7:49:25 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Dogbert41
Strap Clapper and all of them, including the Clinton’s and Albright onto an ICBM and take them all out in one go.


40 posted on 01/02/2018 7:52:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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