The White House is still weighing plans for “preemptive” attack on North despite warnings it would “trigger an all-out war”
By Jake Johnson, staff writer for CommonDreams. Published 2-2-2018
The Pentagon is afraid to give President Donald Trump “too many” options for a preemptive military strike on North Korea because officials believe he might act on one of them.
That’s according to an article published Friday by the New York Times, which quotes anonymous administration officials as saying the Pentagon “is worried that the White House is moving too hastily toward military action on the Korean Peninsula that could escalate catastrophically.” Continue reading