{"id":29922,"date":"2018-01-19T09:44:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29922"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:44:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:44:28","slug":"thinking-the-unthinkable-nuclear-war-with-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29922","title":{"rendered":"Thinking the Unthinkable: Nuclear War with North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thinking the Unthinkable: Nuclear War with North Korea<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

Is the Trump administration prepping the American people \u2013 indeed, the world \u2013 for a war against North Korea? It certainly seems so. US President Donald Trump is constantly needling North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, comparing the size of their respective \u201cnuclear buttons,\u201d while during a speech to the United Nations in September he promised to \u201ctotally destroy North Korea\u201d if it was believed to be a threat to the United States.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s generals \u2013 the only other people he seems to trust, outside of his immediate family \u2013 appear to be playing along. The head of the US Marine Corps\u00a0told his troops<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthere\u2019s a war coming.\u201d H R McMaster, Trump\u2019s national security adviser,\u00a0also seems pumped up for conflict<\/a>. According to recent articles, McMaster feels that traditional deterrence will not work on Kim, and that it is \u201calmost impossible to overstate the threat from a nuclear-armed North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n

In apparent response, the US military seems to be gradually yielding to the idea of war with North Korea. A recent\u00a0New York Times<\/a>\u00a0article ominously suggested that the military is quietly preparing for \u201ca last resort: war with North Korea.\u201d US forces are practicing quick-reaction mobilizations and air-assault exercises, sending Special Operations forces to South Korea, and deploying additional bombers, including B-2s, to Guam.<\/p>\n

The US military insists that it just wants to be prepared for any contingency. However, every day it seems more and more conceivable that a US-North Korean war could break out.<\/p>\n

Suppose they gave a war\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Admittedly, there is a wide gap between conceiving a war with North Korea and actually undertaking one \u2013 and thank goodness for that. However, conceptualizations are often the first step toward action, and this raises two big concerns.<\/p>\n

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Thinking the Unthinkable: Nuclear War with North Korea Is the Trump administration prepping the American people \u2013 indeed, the world \u2013 for a war against North Korea? It certainly seems so. US President Donald Trump is constantly needling North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, comparing the size of their respective \u201cnuclear buttons,\u201d while during a speech […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[7844,18015,8312,2006,581,18014,8203,826,827,18016,862],"class_list":["post-29922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-trump","tag-hr-mcmaster","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-war","tag-richard-a-bitzinger","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states","tag-us-marine-corps","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29923,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29922\/revisions\/29923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}