Candidate for U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Warned Against Targeted Strike
- Victor Cha says he’s longer under consideration for a position
- The answer isn’t a preventive military strike, Cha writes
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Victor Cha, a former White House offical who had been under consideration to become U.S. ambassador to South Korea, warned in an essay published Wednesday against giving North Korea a "bloody nose" using a targeted military strike on the regime.
"North Korea, if not stopped, will build an arsenal with multiple nuclear missiles meant to threaten the U.S. homeland and blackmail us into abandoning our allies in Asia," Cha wrote in the Washington Post. "But the answer is not, as some Trump administration officials have suggested, a preventive military strike."