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Ballistic Threats Tested
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| Lieutenant Colonel Robert McGuinness sent us a message regarding the development situation in North Korea. | |
| May I play the B-roll for you? | |
| Watch this. | |
| Pastor Baker, it's good to be with you today. | |
| Thanks for the opportunity to address the issue of North Korea and the threat that it poses to the United States and to the region. | |
| Clearly, the United States is taking this threat very seriously. | |
| We've put what we call the FAD anti-ballistic missile system there in South Korea along with the Patriots. | |
| We've sent the USS Vinson into the area and also the USS Kennedy is close by with good reason. | |
| North Koreans have tested nuclear devices five times. | |
| They've tested ballistic missiles that can range the United States and the entire region many times here recently. | |
| They've even shown us the capability of a solid fuel ballistic missile, which is important because that means they can take it anywhere in their country and at a moment's notice launch it. | |
| And it's with good reason that recently Vice President Pence and Secretary Tillerson were in the region and made very clear statements. | |
| They said the military options on the table. | |
| I will tell you, 10 years ago, almost to the day, I was on Fox News and I said this problem may require a military solution. | |
| We cannot wait much longer before it becomes very serious. | |
| Now, I was lambasted, criticized, and yet here today we're hearing that the administration is rightly considering military options. | |
| Now, you've heard speculation that we've used cyber against the recent failed launch attempt by the North Koreans. | |
| Certainly we have that capability, I do believe. | |
| We have the capability of taking some of our Aegis cruisers, which are off the coast, and downing some of those ballistic missiles. | |
| But ultimately, the problem, I think, comes down to persuading Kim Jong-un, the third generation of dictators there, whether or not his regime can survive if, in fact, he gives up his nuclear weapons and what price must be paid. | |
| We paid a lot of prices over the years, but yet he still retains a capability and continues to improve upon it. | |
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Navigating North Korea's Mind
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| I think the concern is, and rightly so, that he looks at what happened years ago with Omar Qaddafi in Libya. | |
| And in that situation, we said, give up your weapons and we'll take care of you. | |
| Well, he gave up his weapons. | |
| And during the Arab Spring, the radicals took care of him. | |
| And we didn't do anything to assist him to survive. | |
| How do you resolve the situation with North Korea? | |
| Not easy. | |
| The Chinese are cooperating a little more, but ultimately, we've got to get inside that man's head. | |
| And some people arguably and perhaps rightly indicate he's a crazy man. | |
| Don't know. | |
| But I think he's crazy like a fox. | |
| And so we have to figure out how to persuade him not to continue to proliferate weapons, not to be such a tyrant that he kills his own people and at the same time not threaten his neighbors. | |
| We'll have to wait and see whether this ends peacefully. | |
| It has the potential of blowing up not only in that region but elsewhere. | |
| So thanks for the opportunity of addressing a key issue. | |