WE'RE STARTING TO SEE MORE STORIES LIKE THIS – AT 10:46 A.M. ET:  We have an excellent secretary of defense, and he's overseeing a major buildup against North Korea.  Finally, there are people on our side who are taking this threat seriously.  From the New York Post: 

The US is preparing plans to deliver a “bloody nose” attack against North Korea to knock out its nuclear weapons program.

The White House has “dramatically” ramped up its military plans amid fears that diplomacy won’t thwart North Korean despot Kim Jong Un from making good on his threats, sources told the UK’s Telegraph.

One option is destroying a launch site before the rogue regime uses it for a new missile test, while another is targeting weapons stockpiles, according to the news outlet.

The Trump administration hopes that pre-emptive action would show the trigger-happy dictator that the United States is serious about stopping his bellicose pursuits and persuading him to negotiate.

The Telegraph cited three anonymous sources, one inside the administration and two former officials familiar with the White House thinking.

“The Pentagon is trying to find options that would allow them to punch the North Koreans in the nose, get their attention and show that we’re serious,” a former US security official briefed on policy told the Telegraph.

President Trump’s decision to launch 59 cruise missiles against a Syrian airfield in response to the country’s chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 civilians is considered an indication of his resolve, the paper reported.

COMMENT:  One can't imagine Field Marshal Obama or Grand Admiral Kerry thinking this way.  But it's the only way to think realistically, in the face of a rogue regime like North Korea.

Of course, it didn't have to be this way.  For years, under both Democratic and Republican administrations, we engaged in a "peace process" with North Korea that went absolutely nowhere.  During the years of "negotiations," the Koreans developed the atomic bomb and is now developing the ICBM's to carry them.  Wow.  What a success.  And if the Dems get back into power, we will have that same "peace process" once more.  Talk much and lose.

December 21,  2017