{"id":349069,"date":"2018-02-20T12:29:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T11:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-n-korea-attack-high-risk-unpredictable-for-us\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T12:29:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T11:29:36","slug":"presstv-n-korea-attack-high-risk-unpredictable-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-n-korea-attack-high-risk-unpredictable-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-N Korea attack \u2018high risk, unpredictable\u2019 for US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A pre-emptive attack by the United States against North Korea is \u201chigh risk\u201d and \u201cunpredictable,\u201d says a former top US military commander and intelligence chief, amid reports that the administration of US President Donald Trump is mulling a strike to take out the North\u2019s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Retired Admiral Dennis Blair, who once led the US Pacific Command, told the Guardian in an interview published Tuesday that it was a tough order for Washington to cripple Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear arsenal in a so-called \u201cbloody-nose\u201d strike and Trump had to wait for a first strike by Pyongyang instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith all the tunnels they have, with all of the difficulties of intelligence in that country, I don\u2019t think an American-South Korean strike [on the North] would have a high probability of taking out all of their nuclear capability and then you\u2019ve left them with not only with nuclear capability but also an aggrieved&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/20\/552991\/US-North-Korea--missile-nuke-Dennis-Blair\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pre-emptive attack by the United States against North Korea is \u201chigh risk\u201d and \u201cunpredictable,\u201d says a former top US military commander and intelligence chief, amid reports that the administration of US President Donald Trump is mulling a strike to take out the North\u2019s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. Retired Admiral Dennis Blair, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349069","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\/349069","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}