USA Gen. James Clapper on what USA-North Korea war would mean: Incomprehensible death and destruction in Korean peninsula and perhaps regionally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_hnGtJTPlk, around 10 mins, published 9th Aug. 2017
[Around 8:36 in the video, CNN's Andersen Cooper:] "And just finally .. I am sure you have looked at this and seen the war games and how this all plays out and again, not to ratchet up rhetoric or scare tactics in any way, .. but just you mentioned a little bit.. Seoul, South Korea is quite close to the North. Just the impact of a regional conflict, military conflict using whatever weapons that North Korea has, to South Korea, to Japan. What are we talking about in terms of ..
[Around 9:00 in the video, Lt. Gen James Clapper, former USA Director of National Intelligence says, in response to the above:]
"We are talking about incomprehensible death and destruction. It would be a violent and just a terrible tragedy that would bring death and destruction, both to North and South (Korea), and perhaps regionally. So it would be apocalyptic."
CNN's Andersen Cooper: "And obviously with what 30,000 US troops there - they are also ..."
Clapper: "Not to mention the dependents of those servicemen and (the) hundreds and thousands of dual citizen Korean-US citizens who are there, as well as of course, millions of Republic of Korea citizens who would be - whose lives would be at risk."
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Ravi: I have lived for two months in Seoul, South Korea in the early 1990s on some software consultancy work and have some happy memories of that stay. The office I was in did have many gentlemen named Kim! I think Kim is a very common name among Koreans.
I did have a language issue but I felt they were essentially traditional Asians (middle and upper class) in their mindset. Face-saving is very big in traditional Asian (middle and upper class) mindset. They can't came to terms easily with public humiliation. And if they are leaders like Kim Jong Un - they may prefer death to being publicly humiliated.
So I find the current USA-North Korea verbal war to be very scary as that could descend into a real battle. Of course, given the massive strength of the USA military, North Korea, in all probability, will get crushed eventually if there is an all out war. But the damage that North Korea could do in the initial minutes and hours of the war with its nuclear missile strikes (and other non-nuclear missile strikes) to South Korea which has a strong USA military presence, and perhaps beyond South Korea to other parts of the region, is very scary.
I pray to Almighty God for peace to be maintained in the Korean peninsula and for peace between USA and North Korea.
[Around 8:36 in the video, CNN's Andersen Cooper:] "And just finally .. I am sure you have looked at this and seen the war games and how this all plays out and again, not to ratchet up rhetoric or scare tactics in any way, .. but just you mentioned a little bit.. Seoul, South Korea is quite close to the North. Just the impact of a regional conflict, military conflict using whatever weapons that North Korea has, to South Korea, to Japan. What are we talking about in terms of ..
[Around 9:00 in the video, Lt. Gen James Clapper, former USA Director of National Intelligence says, in response to the above:]
"We are talking about incomprehensible death and destruction. It would be a violent and just a terrible tragedy that would bring death and destruction, both to North and South (Korea), and perhaps regionally. So it would be apocalyptic."
CNN's Andersen Cooper: "And obviously with what 30,000 US troops there - they are also ..."
Clapper: "Not to mention the dependents of those servicemen and (the) hundreds and thousands of dual citizen Korean-US citizens who are there, as well as of course, millions of Republic of Korea citizens who would be - whose lives would be at risk."
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Ravi: I have lived for two months in Seoul, South Korea in the early 1990s on some software consultancy work and have some happy memories of that stay. The office I was in did have many gentlemen named Kim! I think Kim is a very common name among Koreans.
I did have a language issue but I felt they were essentially traditional Asians (middle and upper class) in their mindset. Face-saving is very big in traditional Asian (middle and upper class) mindset. They can't came to terms easily with public humiliation. And if they are leaders like Kim Jong Un - they may prefer death to being publicly humiliated.
So I find the current USA-North Korea verbal war to be very scary as that could descend into a real battle. Of course, given the massive strength of the USA military, North Korea, in all probability, will get crushed eventually if there is an all out war. But the damage that North Korea could do in the initial minutes and hours of the war with its nuclear missile strikes (and other non-nuclear missile strikes) to South Korea which has a strong USA military presence, and perhaps beyond South Korea to other parts of the region, is very scary.
I pray to Almighty God for peace to be maintained in the Korean peninsula and for peace between USA and North Korea.
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