{"id":347107,"date":"2018-02-07T01:57:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T00:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-considers-bloody-nose-strike-on-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T01:57:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T00:57:29","slug":"trump-considers-bloody-nose-strike-on-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-considers-bloody-nose-strike-on-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump considers \u201cbloody nose\u201d strike on North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Trump considers \u201cbloody nose\u201d strike on North Korea<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    6 February 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The Trump administration, or a powerful military-intelligence faction within it, is pushing for a pre-emptive military strike on North Korea, in the wake of, or possibly even during, the Winter Olympics due to start in South Korea on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cbloody nose\u201d option\u2014a limited attack on the North Korean nuclear missile arsenal and infrastructure\u2014is supposed to overawe the Pyongyang regime and bully it into surrendering to Washington\u2019s demands to denuclearise.<\/p>\n<p>Unprovoked US aggression, however, would almost certainly trigger retaliation, rather than submission, with incalculable consequences. Even if nuclear weapons were not immediately used, the death toll in South Korea alone is estimated in the tens of thousands on the first day, in a conflict that could rapidly draw in nuclear-armed powers such as China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, such an act of recklessness and savagery is precisely what is being discussed, debated and prepared in the upper echelons of the White House and the US security-intelligence apparatus. Within top military-foreign policy circles, the advanced nature of the plans is so well known that it is generating fears and opposition.<\/p>\n<p> Last week, the Trump administration abruptly dumped its appointee for US ambassador to South Korea, Victor Cha, after he voiced opposition to a pre-emptive strike on North Korea. Cha subsequently went public, penning a comment in the <em>Washington Post<\/em> in which he warned that a US attack would put 230,000 Americans in South Korea at risk\u2014equivalent to a medium-sized city like Pittsburgh or Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>A letter to Trump last Friday signed by 18 Democratic senators, including Martin Heinrich, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, expressed concern that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/02\/06\/pers-f06.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Trump considers \u201cbloody nose\u201d strike on North Korea 6 February 2018 The Trump administration, or a powerful military-intelligence faction within it, is pushing for a pre-emptive military strike on North Korea, in the wake of, or possibly even during, the Winter Olympics due to start in South Korea on Friday. The \u201cbloody nose\u201d option\u2014a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}