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by Daniel Politi
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/30/general_warns_u_s_allies_ready_to_unleash_overwhelming_force_against_north.html
The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean peninsula and tested out its missile defense system as a warning to North Korea after it conducted another successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that apparently proved its ability to strike the mainland U.S. Just in case the message wasnt clear, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces warned that the United States and its allies are ready to respond with rapid, lethal, and overwhelming force at a time and place of our choosing. Gen. Terrence J. OShaughnessy was sure to point out that while diplomacy remains the lead it is important to showcase our unwavering commitment while planning for the worst-case scenario.
The United States also said it carried out a successful missile defense test in the Pacific Ocean mere days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the countrys latest test demonstrated its capacity to strike the entire continental United States. Analysts say data from the latest test shows that Los Angeles and Chicago, and maybe even New York, could be in the range of Pyongyangs missiles. On Sunday, North Korea characterized its latest missile test amounted to a stern warning against Washingtons pursuit of more sanctions. "The US needs to stop with its delusion of trying to harm us, by clearly understanding the strategic status of the DPRK which soared up as the world's nuclear and missile power, and our military and peoples' strong will to revenge our enemies to destruction," Pyongyangs spokesman said.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter to express his frustration at China, accusing the country of doing NOTHING to help the United States put the brakes on North Koreas efforts to get nuclear weapons. I am very disappointed in China, Trump wrote. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet
they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk. The commander in chief went on to warn that we will no longer allow this to continue.
I am very disappointed in China. Our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade, yet...
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017
...they do NOTHING for us with North Korea, just talk. We will no longer allow this to continue. China could easily solve this problem!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017
Earlier, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Russia and China are the principal economic enablers of North Koreas ambition and thus bear unique and special responsibility for this growing threat to regional and global stability.
We will never accept a nuclear-armed #NorthKorea, nor will we abandon our allies in the region. pic.twitter.com/6oAhfehTwg
Heather Nauert (@statedeptspox) July 29, 2017
Ben Rhodes, who was a foreign policy adviser under President Barack Obama, contradicted Trumps message, writing on Twitter that it is not at all true China has the ability to solve the North Korea issue quickly, and warned that the presidents message involves a very dangerous and destabilizing approach.
It is not at all true that China can easily solve this problem and this is a very dangerous and destabilizing approach. https://t.co/xmV3HaO9Pj
Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) July 30, 2017
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Dear Leader TRUMP. Right-o!
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Not abandon our allies in the region...???? - a message to hair buffoon...STFU
dhol82
(9,351 posts)They will retaliate and take out Seoul and Tokyo.
Gee, what a choice.
This administration is such a loose cannon.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)that doesn't involve the death of at least tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people. It's a myth that we have the fire power to completely destroy NK unless. thermonuclear weapons are involved but then we kill as many alies as North Koreans plus the added bonus of giving China and Russia the excuse to take us out one way or another.
This is the stupidest thing humanly possible.
Wait... is this one of those false Internet stories we've been reading today? Did I fall for it? It sounds just as surreal.
NRaleighLiberal
(59,922 posts)Saboburns
(2,807 posts)Frigging hell.
A powerless president of the United States resorts to twitter shaming China.
Ponder that for a bit.
SMH
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)He knows they are closing in on him and the colluding cabal of republican TreasonWeasels.
As the ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, he also knows he needs a diversion more than bigly. He needs something massive and fugly beyond all imagination.
republicans will live in infamy for what they have done to America and the world, not to mention their corporate-scale perversion of the teachings of Christ.