Reuters: Mattis says North Korean ICBM not yet a 'capable threat' against U.S
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that analysis continued on North Korea’s most recent missile test, but he did not believe its intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) posed an imminent threat to the United States.
“It has not yet shown to be a capable threat against us right now ... we’re still doing the forensics analysis,” Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon.
Last month, North Korea said it had successfully tested a new type of ICBM that could reach all of the U.S. mainland and South Korea and U.S.-based experts said data from the Nov. 29 test appeared to support that.
Mattis did not elaborate on what was lacking in the test to show it was not a capable threat.
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4 comments:
Fix your eye bags when you talk to the world .aww no more 8 years of war for trumped .
So even if true, you've just forced Kim into giving another more definitive demonstration, such as a horizontal flight splashing in international waters thousands of miles away.
He is wrong/intently lying. He probably wants to buy time at home, because there surely are growing calls to end this threat. I understand where he's coming from, but let's be clear: north Korea is nuclear capable and can deliver payloads. Sure, a question about reliability of each payload delivery arises,especially over longer distances, but that's no big obstacle to overcome, especially if you have enough warheads. Old predictions estimate between 20-60 nuclear warheads that north Korea has. That is plenty- especially as north Korea has demonstrated over and over it not only can detonate them, but also deliver them and now minify them. So, saying north Korea is not capable is a far, far stretch and he should be careful about what he says and how far he stretches the truth to buy time or serve other interests...if his strategy backfires people will want his head - perhaps literally. In addition, the US intelligence service has been off so often and so far that they should learn by now not to underestimate the resolve and capabilities of other nations, especially hostile ones and double so if it's a cluster of hostile and quasi-hostile actors like China that enable and protect north Korea's progress. Tripple caution should be paid when those quasi hostile actors have strong ambitions for themselves and have demonstrated the capabilities and willingness to shed American blood - as China did in the first Korean war. Much to the surprise of American intelligence - as admitted by themselves. So, please please don't be stupid. This is a major, major crossroad event coming up and the US needs to be smart how to play it and learn from the past.
I'm puzzled that the concern is Korean ICBM's instead of Korean EMP.
ICBM's with a working re-entry vehicle is not yet established as working---though I expect they will figure that out.
The disaster of losing an American city is not an existential threat to the US.
Korea probably already has the elements for EMP: a hydrogen bomb capability and the ability to orbit satellites.
Either action by Korea would be death by murder suicide.
But EMP could be an existential threat to the US. No electricity, no planes, no pumped fuel, no pumped water, no farm production, no vehicles, no communications, no hospitals, no emergency services.
Millions dead from starvation.
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