Tony Shaffer: We Won’t ‘Stand By’ Like Previous Admins and ‘Allow for the North Koreans to Behave Badly’

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MacCALLUM: "Here now is Tony shaver, former CIA trained operative and senior fellow at the London center for policy research. And also mark Jacobson, former senior advisor to general"
— the important thing is to address if they were to launch a missile over the weekend in commemoration of the birth of their founder, what would that potentially look like and what kind of sophisticated technology of potentially nuclear intercontinental missile are we talking about here, 20?"
SHAFFER: "Well, Martha, we have very effective counter missile capabilities in the theater. The ages aegis cruisers are very effective in capturing a missile boost phase. The initial takeoff is a very good time to do it. The problem is this. We do know for a fact they do have the ability to reach Japan and our allies the south Koreans. There is a very good possibility based on what I’ve been told that they can reach the middle of United States with a ballistic missile. Is the technology is sufficient to mount a nuclear warhead to the nose cones of those missiles. This is no small issue. But it’s very clear one of the reasons we have such a high posture at this point is what Mr. Trump has said is the policy. We will not stand by like the previous administrations and allow for the North Koreans to behave badly. And I think it’s being made very clear by the Syria action, the dropping of the moab yesterday in Afghanistan, that military forces on the table."