Let John Schindler talk you down from your North Korea freakout! TWEETS➤
The Observer‘s national security reporter, John Schindler, got real about North Korea in his Twitter feed earlier today. He’ll talk you down – a little. It’s still a serious situation, but don’t freak out…
Since everybody’s having a collective freakout about N Korea’s miniaturization of a nuke warhead, time for a brief #realtalk tweetstorm. /1
— John Schindler (@20committee) August 8, 2017
First+foremost, without doubting the IC assessment, DPRK is the hardest intel target on earth….caution is wise. /2 https://t.co/WqPRL4m0pO
— John Schindler (@20committee) August 8, 2017
This is the nice way of saying the IC is always flying mostly blind on North Korea, & Pyongyang is decent at playing denial & deception. /3
— John Schindler (@20committee) August 8, 2017
Even assuming DPRK really is close to having a nuke warhead that can fit onto 1 of its ramshackle MRBMs….let’s calm down, folks. /4
— John Schindler (@20committee) August 8, 2017
DPRK’s missile program has never had much quality control (I’m being nice) — and their ICBMs aren’t reaching CONUS that soon anyway. /5
— John Schindler (@20committee) August 8, 2017
While this remains potentially v bad news for ROK & Japan – no minimizing that – if Pyongyang reaches for its nukes, the regime is over. /6
— John Schindler (@20committee) August 8, 2017
Trump can help right now by cutting out his crazy tweets which only enflame NE Asia even more. DPRK truly hates us and may want war. /7
— John Schindler (@20committee) August 8, 2017
Above all, there are NO easy – or even, at this point, palatable – fixes to our DPRK problem. None. Believe nobody who says there are. /8
— John Schindler (@20committee) August 8, 2017
Since 1953, US & DPRK have been at loggerheads — it got deadly hot in 1968 and again in 1976 — so nobody really knows what to do here. /9
— John Schindler (@20committee) August 8, 2017
So, for now, calm down, realize Clinton, Bush 43 & Obama all basically punted on DPRK nukes, so here we are now, kinda screwed. Oh well. /10
— John Schindler (@20committee) August 8, 2017
Nothing peaceful will make DPRK give up nukes (they saw what USG did to Saddam+Gadhaffi). Forget that fantasy. Get used to the crisis. /End
— John Schindler (@20committee) August 8, 2017
