{"id":75792,"date":"2017-11-06T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75792"},"modified":"2017-11-06T08:32:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T13:32:20","slug":"pentagon-securing-nork-nukes-would-require-ground-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75792","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon: securing Nork nukes would require ground invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/pacific\/securing-north-korean-nuclear-sites-would-require-a-ground-invasion-pentagon-says-1.496377\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that the Pentagon responded to a Congressional inquiry with a letter which explained that the only way to secure North Korean nuclear weapons is to send in ground forces led by special warfare assets;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The only way to locate and secure all of North Korea&#8217;s nuclear weapons sites &#8220;with complete certainty&#8221; is through an invasion of U.S. ground forces, and in the event of conflict, Pyongyang could use biological and chemical weapons, the Pentagon told lawmakers in a new, blunt assessment of what war on the Korean Peninsula might look like.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon, in a letter to lawmakers, said that a full discussion of U.S. capabilities to &#8220;counter North Korea&#8217;s ability to respond with a nuclear weapon and to eliminate North Korea&#8217;s nuclear weapons located in deeply buried, underground facilities&#8221; is best suited for a classified briefing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For their part, the Department of Defense urges that the State Department come to a resolution before the military is forced into the picture with their unique set of skills requiring them to kill people and break things in North Korea, but that they are ready to do just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &#038; Stripes reports that the Pentagon responded to a Congressional inquiry with a letter &hellip; <a title=\"Pentagon: securing Nork nukes would require ground invasion\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75792\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon: securing Nork nukes would require ground invasion<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}