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applegrove

(118,682 posts)
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 07:36 PM Dec 2017

CIA TOLD TRUMP NORTH KOREA CAN HIT WASHINGTON WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THREE MONTHS, REPORT SAYS

BY GREG PRICE at Newsweek

http://www.newsweek.com/cia-north-korea-trump-three-months-735229

"SNIP........

The Central Intelligence Agency has told President Donald Trump that North Korea could have the ability to strike major U.S. cities, even with nuclear weapons, within the next three months, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations told British officials last week, according to The Guardian.

John Bolton, who served under former President George W. Bush, reportedly told officials at the House of Commons that CIA “chiefs” claimed there was a “three-month window” to act before Kim Jong Un’s regime gained the capability to attack U.S. cities.

Though Bolton is not an official within Trump’s administration, the apparent warning suggests North Korea’s threats of war and “fire” could be fully realized as early as March 2018.

The Guardian also reported that a senior U.S. commander recently said the same thing to a former European parliamentarian at the Demilitarized Zone on the Korean Peninsula, the area that divides North and South Korea.

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CIA TOLD TRUMP NORTH KOREA CAN HIT WASHINGTON WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THREE MONTHS, REPORT SAYS (Original Post) applegrove Dec 2017 OP
Would that info not be classified? applegrove Dec 2017 #1
Not when you are ramping up for war. Nt NCTraveler Dec 2017 #2
They must have timed breaking the news perfectly for when he was sober populistdriven Dec 2017 #6
John Fucking Bolton? Chasstev365 Dec 2017 #3
Consider the source: Bolton woodsprite Dec 2017 #4
Malcom Nance predicts MontanaMama Dec 2017 #5
Anything info that comes from the WH is automatically suspect. nt wiggs Dec 2017 #7
I live in Washington and that worried me, until I saw the source. LisaM Dec 2017 #8
I guess I better take my vacation in the next two months LastLiberal in PalmSprings Dec 2017 #9
That Bolton fuckhead said the same thing about Iraq back in 2002 librechik Dec 2017 #10

populistdriven

(5,644 posts)
6. They must have timed breaking the news perfectly for when he was sober
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 07:53 PM
Dec 2017
https://goo.gl/yadSQ2

shortened link is to start youtube video at 1:39 -

www.youtube.com/embed/PUQcpioB_vY?start=99

MontanaMama

(23,322 posts)
5. Malcom Nance predicts
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 07:45 PM
Dec 2017

that the Mueller investigation should reach the Oval Office by March...3 months away. Perfect timing.



9. I guess I better take my vacation in the next two months
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 08:26 PM
Dec 2017

Trump's response to this information could really make vacation days "use it or lose it (forever)."

"What's the point in having nuclear weapons if you don't use them?" -- Candidate Two Scoops

librechik

(30,674 posts)
10. That Bolton fuckhead said the same thing about Iraq back in 2002
Tue Dec 5, 2017, 09:19 PM
Dec 2017

Gee, I wonder who thought this gambit up this time. War is Coming!

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