Continuing months of war rhetoric, Defense Secretary James Mattis today warned North Korea risks a course of action that “would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people.” He insisted North Korea needs to immediately “stand down.”
This comes in the context of President Trump yesterday threatening “fire and fury unlike the world has ever seen” against North Korea for its behavior. Trump followed that up today insisting America’s nuclear weapons are better than ever, and that they are the “most powerful nation in the world” and always will be no matter what.
Mattis, for his part, accused North Korea of being to blame for everything, demanding that the state “stop isolating itself,” as US officials continue to impose new sanctions and threaten a massive war against them.
North Korean officials have downplayed the situation, though their state media has suggested they are developing a plan that would involving attacking the US island of Guam, and raising the possibility of a “preemptive strike” on the US if they believe an attack is imminent.
The US, of course, has constantly threatened their own preemptive strikes against North Korea for years now, and those threats have only grown. This inevitably raises concerns that one side or the other is going to blink first and jump headlong into a calamitous war.
An ironic and fitting choice of .jpg. The funeral of Kim Jong-Il,
little did they know how real those tears would become.
He allowed inspectors and took the money. “Those were the days”…
This is what it comes to. America the mighty behemoth picking a fight with a crippled old starving dog for shooting trashcans into the ocean. F**k this cuntry.
To be fair, it’s doing a spectacular job of effing itself.
Actually N. Korea has been picking a fight with the USA for years now. Our Government is just now starting to take him as a serious threat. Are we supposed to just LET Kim bomb us first??
How’s that? Do they have yearly war games on our borders? Did they put crippling sanctions on us? Do they have 28,000 troops on our border? Did they claim we were part of the axis of evil? Did they carpet bomb us into the stone age in the Korean war(police action)? Are they suppose to LET Trump bomb them first?
Shooting anything near N Korea’s nuclear facilities runs the risk of a huge disaster. A coolant loss to the DPRK’s reactors and spent fuel pools would be devastating on an unimaginable scale if done deliberately and left to run their course. The refugee crisis would compound daily and spread as the radiation does. It would be like 100 Fukushimas
The American Way: bombast, threats, hypocrisy, amnesia of the past.
N. Korea was bombed back to the stone age in the 1950’s.
When two irrational parties are engaged in a contest of who can shout the loudest, the world waits anxiously for a rational adult to step forward. The us has antagonized Russia and China with its arrogance (my war or the highway) and now that source of assistance may be a tad slow in coming.
I have no doubt that President Trump felt encouraged to make this statement after the unanimous vote in the UN Security Council.
The concept of diplomacy is an unknown in the American foreign policy “establishment.” The neo cons continue to charge without any regard for the consequences.
This is a fairly decent summary of the idiocy we are witnessing:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/
We may be walking into right into a trap.
If “the destruction of its people” means the deliberate killing of all North Koreans presumably with nuclear weapons then Mattis advocates a war crime.
If it means the deliberate destruction of all means of living of these people who will then die that is a war crime too.
It might be a good idea for General Mattis to study the proceedings of the Nuremberg trials as well as the Geneva conventions on warfare again. He seems to have forgotten.
If Mattis is a Christian he might remember that his God saved one family which was probably as sinful as all others that were deliberately killed by the flood. Perhaps he can designate one North Korean family which will be allowed to build an ark and save itself in the Sea of Japan. Actually the Atlantic Ocean would be better to get away from the dangerous nuclear clouds over the Sea of Japan.
Ah yes, Mattis, one of the “adults.”
Well, Rick, Mad Dog Mattis surely isn’t acting as an adult in this case .. The adult happens to be Rex Tillerson, who stated that the DRPK isn’t any threat to the US.
Mattis, like the Trotskysists aka neocons, never thought that bombing the DPRK back to the Stone Age would risk a huge disaster. Doesn’t he realize there are nuclear facilities in that country would lose coolant and would result in a catastrophe equal to around 100 Fukushimas? Before he even acts on this threat he made, Mattis sorely needs to study the Nuremberg trials thoroughly.
Just another distraction by Trump.
Plummeting ratings, investigation, political failures…
That’s how the Deep State and their media minions bring down a democratically elected President.
Correction. Clinton was democratically elected with the popular vote. Trump was selected by 300 plus people who could have gone either way constitutionally.
Here’s some food for thought when it comes to all the propaganda surrounding NK being a real threat.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/brian-williams-says-that-its-our-job-to-scare-people-to-death-over-north-korea/
Madman Mathis is channeling General Turgidson from the film Doctor Strangelove.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/dr-strangelove-1964-war-room-scene/
In fact, it’s patently obvious that the entire American regime–led by Donald Trump–is in reality staging a theatrical remake of Stanley Kubrick’s classic satire updated for modern times.
It’s truly brilliant acting, direction, choreography and set design that puts the Broadway hit Hamilton to shame.
Call it World War Three, the Musical!
Just do it and get it over with. As Jack Crabb told General Custer before the Battle of Little Big Horn, “You go down there, General, if you’ve got the nerve.”
“Defense Secretary James Mattis” -what a mockery.
There is no attempt at “defense” in the USA actions-it is always threats, attacks, invasions, bombings, as North Korea (and the South as well) remember all too well from the 1950s.
Any decent human response would be to act calmly and to negotiate, as the DPRK has asked for years.