US Ambassador Nikki Haley declared the UN Security Council to have “run out of options” for dealing with the “North Korea problem,” in comments made during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union show. She talked up a shift to unilateral US military options.
Haley insisted that the US has “a whole lot of military options on the table,” and that President Trump’s threat to give North Korea “fire and fury” was not an empty threat. She went on to say that if the US uses any military options “North Korea will be destroyed. And we all know that. And none of us want that.”
Despite saying she didn’t want that in this segment of her comments, the ambassador also said in the course of her comments she is “perfectly happy” to see the North Korea issued referred to the Pentagon to be solved by Defense Secretary James Mattis.
Since early spring, US officials have been threatening military action against North Korea multiple times a week. North Korean officials say their development of missiles is focused on finding an equilibrium at which it is no longer possible for the US to attack without risking a disastrous retaliation. Though many would argue the millions who would be killed in a war now would be enough of a deterrent, US officials continue to insist that the military option is a realistic one.
Yeah, wipe out North Korea with South Korea blown to hell also. Good thinking Nikki.
Nutty Nikki is Begging for War.
Just when non-interventionist and peace advocates said, “Thank, God, Trump didn’t pick John Bolton.” Along comes Nikki saying, “Hold my beer…watch this.”
I think Nikki has a play toy in the shape of a missile. It vibrates and it says USA!USA!
Sanctions are designed to hurt NK. I’ll tell you what hurts: $860 billion Pentagon budget, which the taxpayer has to bear.
America is not going to attack N Korea, if it did China would step in, so America is going to try and force a reaction from Kim by applying ever more punitive sanctions. What we need here is for China – with Russian backing – to declare that imposing further sanctions (and a naval blockade which is were America is clearly going) on N Korea would be considered an act of war. This would forestall escalation and avert the nuclear annihilation of the human race. Let the voice of Reason speak – we are in dire need of it here.