{"id":30488,"date":"2018-02-03T09:29:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30488"},"modified":"2018-02-03T09:32:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T14:32:16","slug":"it-sure-sounds-like-the-us-is-actually-going-to-bomb-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30488","title":{"rendered":"It Sure Sounds Like the US Is Actually Going to Bomb North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It Sure Sounds Like the US Is Actually Going to Bomb North Korea<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b>\u00a0\u2014<\/i>\u00a0During his first State of the Union\u00a0address<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday,\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0pledged<\/a>\u00a0the United States would continue its\u00a0\u201c<\/i>campaign of maximum pressure\u201d<\/i>\u00a0against North Korea. Meanwhile, the\u00a0Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0ran an opinion\u00a0piece<\/a>\u00a0written by the man who was, until recently, set to become the U.S. ambassador to South Korea.<\/p>\n

Victor Cha, a professor at Georgetown University and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, had\u00a0reportedly<\/a>\u00a0passed all U.S. security checks, and South Korea had signed off on him.<\/p>\n

It was expected \u2014 and for the government in Seoul,\u00a0hoped<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 that Trump would soon formally nominate Cha for Senate approval. But over the weekend, it was reported that the White house informed Cha he was no longer being considered for the post.<\/p>\n

Sources\u00a0say<\/a>\u00a0the move was motivated by Cha\u2019s disagreement with the Trump administration\u2019s policy on North Korea. In particular, these sources say, the would-be ambassador took issue with the White House considering a preemptive strike against the Hermit Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Writing for the\u00a0Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0on Tuesday, Cha\u00a0stated<\/a>\u00a0that the answer to the North Korean question\u00a0\u201cis not, as some Trump administration officials have suggested, a preventive military strike.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Rather, Cha wrote, there are options available to address the threat\u00a0\u201cwithout escalating into a war that would likely kill tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Americans.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Cha, who previously\u00a0served<\/a>\u00a0in the administration of George W. Bush, wrote that he expressed his concerns over North Korea policy while he was being considered for the Seoul ambassadorship.<\/p>\n

The Georgetown professor went on to\u00a0question<\/a>\u00a0the logic of the \u201cbloody nose\u201d strategy, meant to shock leader Kim Jong-un and make him think twice about his nuclear ambitions:<\/p>\n

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It Sure Sounds Like the US Is Actually Going to Bomb North Korea (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0During his first State of the Union\u00a0address\u00a0on Tuesday,\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0pledged\u00a0the United States would continue its\u00a0\u201ccampaign of maximum pressure\u201d\u00a0against North Korea. Meanwhile, the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0ran an opinion\u00a0piece\u00a0written by the man who was, until recently, set to become the U.S. ambassador to South Korea. Victor Cha, […]<\/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":[8350,7844,14794,2006,581,827,18326,862],"class_list":["post-30488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-media","tag-donald-trump","tag-james-holbrooks","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-war","tag-united-states","tag-victor-cha","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30488","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=30488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30491,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30488\/revisions\/30491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}