WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The United States should be prepared to confront a "trans-regional, multi-domain and multi-functional" conflict if war breaks out on the Korean peninsula, the top U.S. military official said Monday.
Speaking at a national security forum at the Center for a New American Security, Gen. Joseph Dunford, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, said North Korea's development of ballistic missiles, cyber and other capabilities, are posing an unprecedented threat, Yonhap reported.
"If you would have thought about the Korean peninsula some years ago, you would have thought about a conflict that we would have hoped to isolate on the Korean Peninsula. And then as the North Koreans developed ballistic missile capability, well, obviously that's started to affect other regional actors such as Japan," Dunford said.
Dunford added a Korean conflict can no longer be isolated to the peninsula, and that U.S. planning is "not really optimized for that fight," but did not provide additional details.
Credit to UPI
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