Analyst's note:  At a time of great weakness, maybe as great as we have ever been, the U.S. is now viewed as a paper-tiger.  We have  N. Korea Sees US as ‘Weakening’ Power as they work hand-in hand with Iran supported by Russia and China.  We lack strategic understanding and planning.  Also hear another view of sequestration as it pertains to U.S. Defense.

Gen. Paul E. Vallely (U.S. Army, retired)

As North Korea reportedly cancels the 60-year-old armistice that ended the Korean War and toughens its rhetoric toward the United States, “we’re about as weak as we’ve ever been,” retired Army Gen. Paul Vallely tells Newsmax TV in an exclusive interview.

“We’re really seen as a paper tiger in the world — and having been over to the Middle East twice in the last six months, we’re not respected,” Vallely, who served in the Vietnam War, tells Newsmax. “We’ve lost our credibility. We’re weakening our military power and capacity as everybody knows who watches television and reads the newspaper — and they see that.

“They see us as very vulnerable,” he adds. “Russia sees us as very vulnerable. Iran, which is a partner in the nuclear build-up also sees us very weak. They’re a partner with North Korea and they do tests together.

“I feel very uncomfortable with the lack of knowledge and strategy in Washington right now, not only in the Pentagon but the State Department, CIA, as well as the White House.” [....]

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North Korea said it would attack U.S. military bases on Japan and the Pacific island of Guam if provoked, a day after leader Kim Jong-un oversaw a mock drone strike on South Korea. [....]