N. Korea’s Reckless Pursuit of Nukes Could Threaten US Homeland

“North Korea’s reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland”, Trump said.

The secretive regime’s state-run newspaper said “the moves of USA imperialists to ignite a nuclear war have reached climax” since President Donald Trump was inaugurated in a scathing editorial.

When I was under consideration for a position in this administration, I shared some of these views.

The regime of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un remains a danger to the world, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis said January 26 in Honolulu, while emphasizing diplomatic efforts to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue.

North Korea in November past year announced the test launch of the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which state media has claimed was capable of striking the “entire” USA mainland.

The dire warning was issued in Pyongyang-based propaganda paper Rodong Sinmun, which has more than half a million copies distributed though the North Korean capital. “There is so much rhetorical flourish”, said Sheila Smith, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chuying said that common interests outweigh differences between the sides and the US should view the relationship “correctly”.

North Korea’s army has scaled back annual winter military exercises this year, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing unidentified USA officials familiar with intelligence reports. “He could have laid out his administration’s accomplishments in building an global coalition around sanctions, but avoided any discussion of diplomacy”.

Pyongyang’s weapons programme has seen tensions on the Korean peninsula ratchet up in recent months, prompting fresh rounds of sanctions and fiery rhetoric from President Donald Trump and Kim.

But after the speech, Smith said, “Tokyo will be anxious about the “bloody nose” approach”. He participated in the Six-Party talks with North Korea as the deputy head of the USA delegation, and was generally considered hawkish on security issues involving the North.

An escalating war of words between the United States president and the reclusive regime has drawn concern of a military strike. Ji wrote in The Guardian in 2014, “North Korea is already a society where everybody is trying to eat and survive on their own, so they don’t really care whether you are disabled or not”.

Despite these lingering fears, the Japanese government embraced the speech.

In his first State of the Union speech Tuesday, the president called out the oppressive leadership in both countries, saying his administration is “restoring clarity about our adversaries”.

Amid a deteriorating security situation on the ground, particularly in the capital Kabul, Trump indicated that the US’ longest-running overseas conflict will continue, with U.S. troops able to operate under “new rules of engagement”.

But on Tuesday, he struck a softer tone and instead highlighted the human rights abuses of Kim’s regime.

South Korean Minister of Unification Cho Myoung Gyon assured that the parade would not interfere with joint Olympic efforts, describing it as an “internal North Korean event”.

While Trump’s administration says it prefers a diplomatic solution to the crisis over North Korea’s development of weapons capable of hitting the United States, it says all options are on the table, including military ones.

Ji Seong-ho grew up in North Korea in the midst of a deadly starvation.

An alternative coercive strategy involves enhanced and sustained United States, regional and global pressure on Pyongyang to denuclearise.

“Our nation’s nuclear force can smash and respond to any nuclear threat from the USA and our strong deterrence can suppress the US from playing with fire…”

He also reiterated his opposition to the nuclear deal.

They were charged with ‘hostile acts against the DPRK’.

Warmbier died at the age of 22 in June 2017, just days after he was returned to the U.S.by North Korea.

Asked about Trump’s mention of trade, Suga was stoic.

The defeat of ISIS has been a long time coming, and most of the anti-ISIS campaign took place under the Obama administration, CNN’s national security analyst Peter Bergen said at the end of a year ago, but the Trump national security team helped to hasten its defeat. Trump, who may rival Kim in impulsivity, apparently disagreed.

“I do not foresee significant willingness within member states to unpack and substantially renegotiate the deal”, Maslow said.

Donald Trump, so far, seems to be moving in the other direction.