By Express-Times Letters to the Editor
Posted Apr 17, 9:00 AM
President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, June 30, 2019. AP
In the 1960s, as a staff sergeant in the U.S.Air Force Security Service with top secret codeword clearance, I was deployed to South Korea to electronically spy on North Korea and Chinese air defenses, intercepting and analyzing their Morse code transmissions.
President Trump says he’s not concerned with North Korean short/medium range missile testing. Apparently he doesn’t care that they’re pinpointing their accuracy and increasing their conventional warhead capacity. When they’re capable of taking out a U.S. aircraft carrier or submerged submarine from undetectable, portable launchers, they’ll alter the balance of power in the region. Our military intelligence was recently stunned by the accuracy and power of the Iran retaliatory missile attack on our forces in Iraq, and responded defensively in turn.
When Trump failed in his ill-advised, personal, de-nuclear negotiations with Kim Jong Un, he left our military with “war” as the only option when they resume nuclear testing.
Threatening “destruction like the world has never seen” (nuclear) also shows Trump doesn’t understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used offensively (as a first strike) because of their indiscriminate destruction. If they could, the Korean, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars would’ve ended in days, not years. Nuclear weapons are basically bargaining chips in a real-life “Risk” board game.
U.S. intelligence personnel work endlessly and diligently to maintain a logistical advantage in conventional weapons. Trump thinks he knows more than our intelligence experts. Consequently he has severely disadvantaged our military strategists.
Hopefully Joe Biden will be elected and bring actual “intelligence” back into our leadership, replacing this egotism and ignorance.
Ron Pizarie
East Allen Township
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