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US Military Options On North Korea ‘Very Ugly’

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Despite new threats from the Trump administration, the US still has no real, practical military option on North Korea, analysts say.

 

 

After Pyongyang tested a nuclear weapon Sunday, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said the US has “many military options” on North Korea and threatened Pyongyang with “a massive military response” if a US territory or US allies are targeted.

 

 

But any US military action puts millions of civilians in the South Korean capital of Seoul at risk, analysts say, and is therefore very unlikely to happen.

 

 

“We always have military options, but they’re very ugly,” said Mark Hertling, a retired US Army general and CNN military analyst.

 

 

Experts say North Korea could kill tens of thousands of those civilians, if not exponentially more, using that artillery in retaliation for a US strike on the North.

 

 

Hertling said that means the US doesn’t need to do anything drastic to counter the current North Korean threat.

 

 

“Does North Korea threaten the existence of the United States or any of our allies right now? No, they don’t,” he said.

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