Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
CAN TRUMP DO ABOUT N. KOREA?
The US has 4 potential solutions to the crisis.. & all could go badly wrong Trump: Our missiles are biggest ever FBI swoops on President’s aide
The least likely option is to accept the Kim regime will have nuclear weapons – but only use them to defend against the West forcing regime change.
North Korea is very unlikely to want nuclear war. It loves making threats but would only use nukes to defend itself against a threat to its regime in an act of self-preservation.
And this would mean the rest of the world would have to accept North Korea, the most secretive and arguably the most oppressive society ever, being nuclear-armed. The constant need to swear violence This is probably the cheapest and least devastating option in terms of potential death toll.
The plan would require a highly covert operation in which special forces teams enter North Korea by air or sea and assassinate Kim and his inner circle.
The idea would be to force a regime change, putting a more moderate, West-friendly leader in power to open North Korea up to the rest of the world.
But as the CIA found with secretive regimes like that of Saddam Hussein, it can be difficult to plan an assassination without accurate intelligence.
Without knowing where Kim is going to be at a certain time, it is DONALD Trump reinforced his threat against North Korea warning his nuclear weapons are “far stronger and more powerful than ever before”.
He tweeted to say his “first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal”.
He added: “Hopefully we will never have to use this power, but there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world.”
Airmen stationed in Guam said they were ready to “fight tonight” after Kim Jong-un said he was looking at plans to attack the US base with ballistic missiles.
Trump said Pyongyang would “face fire and fury like the world has never seen” if it kept threatening the States. THE FBI has carried out a dawn raid on the home of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman.
Documents were taken from the house of Paul Manafort in Alexandria, Virginia, on July 26 as part of a probe into Russian meddling in the US election.
The FBI was working with special counsel Robert Mueller, who heads the inquiry.
The ex-aide’s spokesman said: “Mr Manafort has consistently cooperated with law enforcement and inquiries and did so on this occasion.”