Bryan Harris and Katrina Manson
South Korea (click here) will seek to use inter-Korean talks on Tuesday to decrease tensions on the peninsula and reunite families separated by the Korean war, Seoul has said.
Comments from Cho Myung-gyon, South Korea’s unification minister, illustrate the broader possibilities of the negotiations with North Korea, which are set to focus on Pyongyang’s participation in next month’s Winter Olympic Games.
“Basically, the two sides will focus on the Olympics. When discussing inter-Korean relations, the government will seek to raise the issue of war-torn families and ways to ease military tensions,” Mr Cho said on Monday....
The USA military has no right to cause problems in the Pacific if allies state otherwise. The reason the USA is in the Pacific is because of allies and if they see the USA's military more as a threat than an asset there exists a real reason to question the USA strategy.
I would expect the Democratic leaders of the US House and US Senate to evaluate the current military strategy of Trump with allies. There needs to be an addition of incompetency of military use to the list of impeachable offenses.
January 10, 2018
By Alex Lockie
President Donald Trump's national security adviser, (click here) H.R. McMaster, seems to think the US's military and nuclear supremacy over North Korea cannot deter its leader, Kim Jong Un, from attacking the US — and that a strike is needed to stop him.
It also appears that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis are the key figures holding Trump back from taking McMaster's advice.
McMaster, who led the US's counterinsurgency strategy in the Iraq War of the early 2000s, frequently provides some of the most hawkish US statements on North Korea, sometimes surpassed only by Trump.
Even before becoming Trump's national security adviser, McMaster has stood at the forefront of piecing together a comprehensive US military strategy for the post-Cold War era....
B-52 bombers are long range, high altitude bombers. They will never get off the ground in Guam. The USA owns 72 of these bombers as of the end of 2015. How many are operational in a meaningful way is unclear.
January 11, 2018
by Anna Giaritelli
The U.S. Air Force (click here) has deployed three nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers and 200 air personnel to U.S. territory of Guam, the Pacific Air Forces announced late Tuesday.
The move comes days after North Korean government officials met with South Korean leaders to discuss security concerns ahead of the Winter Olympics, in the face of the northern country's continued missile tests....
Here is a hint for the Joint Chiefs; when the Navy loses ships to freighters on a regular basis, it is time to get the Guam B-52s in the air to prevent conventional bombing by a communist country.
THE USA MILITARY IS UNWANTED IN THE PACIFIC by most countries.
Here is a hint for the Joint Chiefs; when the Navy loses ships to freighters on a regular basis, it is time to get the Guam B-52s in the air to prevent conventional bombing by a communist country.
THE USA MILITARY IS UNWANTED IN THE PACIFIC by most countries.
