CIA Told Trump North Korea Can Hit U.S. In 3 Months

[DonViejo]

Source: Newsweek Magazine




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

BY GREG PRICE ON 12/5/17 AT 9:49 AM

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 by 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.

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

[Aristus]

1. Bolton is a war-mongering asshole.

Kim Jong-Un may look like a Bond villain, and not one of the cool ones, but he understands self-preservation.

He knows that even if he could brag about hitting the United States, there would be no one left alive to hear him after the retaliatory strike.

[Cicada]

13. Would Bolton lie? Hell yes

[wasupaloopa]

2. Bolton is not the CIA

[Javaman]

3. NK was able to do it many months ago..

listen to the Arms Control Wonks podcast.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Zero evidence, 100% speculation. Headline is completely false. Unbelievable.

[Javaman]

6. listen to the podcast then get back to me. nt

[Fred Sanders]

7. Sorry, rather listen to common sense and look for evidence. Not Bolton's ravings or a podcast.

Maybe you could summarize the speculation?

[Javaman]

8. I listen to both of those you mention, both of which are complete opinion pieces...

john bolton is an asshole, but oddly, you say you don't want to listen to a podcast yet, you list two of them. >shrug<


https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/authors/



MICHAEL KREPON
Michael Krepon is the co-founder of the Stimson Center. He worked previously at the Carnegie Endowment, the State Department, and on Capitol Hill. He has written over 400 articles and is the author or editor of twenty-one books, including Better Safe than Sorry: The Ironies of Living with the Bomb; Anti-Satellite Weapons, Deterrence and Sino-American Relations; and Deterrence Stability and Escalation Control in South Asia. He was given the Thérèse Delpech Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in non-governmental work to reduce nuclear dangers by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 2015.


Joshua Pollack
JOSHUA POLLACK
Joshua Pollack used to be a consultant to the U.S. government on arms control, nonproliferation, deterrence, and the like. Now he's the editor of the Nonproliferation Review and a Senior Research Associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), based in Washington, DC.


Jeffrey Lewis
JEFFREY LEWIS
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

[Fred Sanders]

9. Still no evidence of a long range missile which curiously is always noted as "claimed" by

NK. Where is the independent evidence?

Now there is this:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/asia/north-korea-hwasong-15-images-intl/index.html

[Javaman]

10. again, listen to the podcast then get back to me.

the cable news stations are just feeding us boilerplate bullshit.

don't listen to that crap.

[moda253]

14. Stop!!!!

Please stop making the accusations that news organizations are crap and that we should instead go listen to a podcast. You are doing the work of selling a message that our news can't be trusted which is EXACTLY what the people that look to undermine democracy want you to do!

[Javaman]

15. Wow. you make the accusation without listening to the podcast.

Yes, and CNN is the authority on all things

I find it truly remarkable that you are stone walling the concept of listening to a podcast that is run by the very people that study daily arms control policy and proliferation.

I don't understand what is so frightening about trying it.

enjoy your boilerplate.

you may now have the last word, because frankly, while I was trying to enlighten you with an informed podcast on arms control, you seem to choose a narrow view point.

I think we're done.

[Fred Sanders]

4. Using Bolton as your single source plus hearsay shows how far journalism has fallen. Newsweek? Sad.

[harun]

11. Bolton always means war mongering BS. 0 credibility.

[ollie10]

12. So John Bolton.....here is his present job.....

Bolton is currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI),[6] senior advisor for Freedom Capital Investment Management,[7] a Fox News Channel commentator, and of counsel to the Washington, D.C. law firm Kirkland & Ellis.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton

Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion.

But John Bolton does not speak for the CIA to the best of my knowledge.