TILLERSON: It may be necessary to take pre-emptive military action against North Korea

[deminks]

http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-the-latest-tillerson-cites-pre-emptive-option-for-nkorea-2017-3

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday it may be necessary to take pre-emptive military action against North Korea if the threat from their weapons program reaches a level "that we believe requires action."

Tillerson outlined a tougher strategy to confront North Korea's nuclear threat after visiting the world's most heavily armed border near the tense buffer zone between rivals North and South Korea.

Asked about the possibility of using military force against the North, Tillerson told a news conference in the South Korean capital, "all of the options are on the table."

He said the U.S. does not want a military conflict, "but obviously if North Korea takes actions that threatens South Korean forces or our own forces, that would be met with (an) appropriate response. If they elevate the threat of their weapons program to a level that we believe requires action that option is on the table."

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So, who's going to make that decision on the cr*pper between tweets? Did anybody tell Tillerson that North Korea has no oil? Did they ask that single mom in Chicago if her taxes should go to Sesame Street or pre-emptive war? Is that war in "quotation marks"? Thanks, Cheney, for the pre-emptive war policy.

[procon]

1. Madness! Nt

[chillfactor]

2. oh good god....

the orange one and Tillerson are going to get us into a nuclear war!

[Daxter]

3. Trump the coward

I can't wait to see how Trump tries to "dodge" this one.

[riversedge]

4. Has Tillerson said anything that past Presidents/the U.S. have said before. Haven't we always

said that all options are on the table for NK?


Just asking.

[MrScorpio]

6. No.

[MrScorpio]

5. This is the scariest shit I've read in a long time.

[madokie]

7. tRump and company

are in need of a fix and quick. I mean their ratings are in the crapper and people are starting to wake up

[gademocrat7]

8. This is frightening.

An unqualified Secretary of State saber rattling.

[Liberal In Texas]

9. This is why Chump has to go.

Even though Pense wouldn't be better for everything else, he probably would be a bit more careful about starting Armageddon.

[NightWatcher]

10. He knows we've got 30k troops juuuuust south of North Korea and in range of their weapons, right?

What happens to them when we learn the hard way just what weapons NK has?

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. They were probably making faces at him from across the DMZ.

Do not taunt the mighty CEO of State who has probably had his ass kissed daily while at ExxonMobil.

Two countries with nutty Dear Leaders who both have nuclear weapons at their disposal. What could possibly go wrong?

[bdamomma]

12. they are antagonizing

a country with nuclear weapons???? What the hell is wrong with these people, are they instigating a conflict, this is madness.

[bdamomma]

13. May day, May Day

can we please get this regime out of the WH please.

[moondust]

14. Stupid.

You don't want to publicly even mention a first strike against NK. Krazy Little Kimmy can use that as an excuse to speed up his militarization including rockets and nukes and maybe even launch a first strike as a "preemptive" defense against the "aggressors."

Seems the mighty T. Rex of the mighty Exxon is just a reckless toddler like his boss when it comes to geopolitical diplomacy.

[FSogol]

17. Exactly. He hasn't been in office 2 months yet and declared diplomacy has failed?

No, Tillerson, you're failing.

[FSogol]

15. Exxon wants war!

Let's have a war!
Jack up the Dow Jones!
Let's have a war!
It can start in New Jersey!
Let's have a war!
Blame it on the middle-class!
Let's have a war!
We're like rats in a cage!
It already started in the city!
Suburbia will be just as easy!
There's so many of us
There's so many of us

[democratisphere]

16. Gee. Could have seen this coming from the first hour of drumpf's so-called presidency.

[KingCharlemagne]

18. Well, Seoul (and maybe Tokyo) can bend over and kiss its

ass good-bye. Anyone who cooperates with this criminal junta is fair game.