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photon · 04-25-2017, 09:10 PM

North Korea will continue its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs and the U.S. cannot count on China to apply sufficient pressure to deter the growing threat, experts told a Senate panel Tuesday.

Also, a U.S. military strike on Pyongyang would pose huge risks for the U.S., South Korea and other allies in the region, and the outlook for regime change is grim even if economic incentives were offered.

"The challenges emanating from North Korea are obviously real, dangerous and in the near term," Ashley Tellis, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace testified to at full Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about policy and strategy in the Asia-Pacific region.

Tellis added, "The challenges emanating from China are long term, enduring and aimed fundamentally at decoupling the United States from its Asian partners."

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/25/ex-pe...-unlikely.html

So my question would be what if they do develop an nuclear ICBM? What actually changes? It wouldn't be the first nation to do so. Would it really be so destabilizing that it must be avoided even a the risk of thousands or millions of lives?

04-25-2017, 09:10 PM	#1567
photon The new goggles also do nothing. Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Calgary Exp:	North Korea will continue its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs and the U.S. cannot count on China to apply sufficient pressure to deter the growing threat, experts told a Senate panel Tuesday. Also, a U.S. military strike on Pyongyang would pose huge risks for the U.S., South Korea and other allies in the region, and the outlook for regime change is grim even if economic incentives were offered. "The challenges emanating from North Korea are obviously real, dangerous and in the near term," Ashley Tellis, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace testified to at full Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about policy and strategy in the Asia-Pacific region. Tellis added, "The challenges emanating from China are long term, enduring and aimed fundamentally at decoupling the United States from its Asian partners." http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/25/ex-pe...-unlikely.html So my question would be what if they do develop an nuclear ICBM? What actually changes? It wouldn't be the first nation to do so. Would it really be so destabilizing that it must be avoided even a the risk of thousands or millions of lives? __________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.