UPDATED: SEP 03 2017 09:58PM CDT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday shot back at North Korea's latest nuclear provocation with a blunt threat, saying the U.S. will answer any North Korean threat with a "massive military response -- a response both effective and overwhelming." While he said America does not seek the "total annihilation" of the North, he added somberly, "We have many options to do so."
In a brief statement to reporters outside the White House, Mattis said the international community is unified in demanding the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and said the North's leader, Kim Jong Un, should know that Washington's commitment to Japan and South Korea is unshakeable.
Earlier, President Donald Trump raised the stakes in the escalating crisis over North Korea's nuclear threats, suggesting drastic economic measures against China and criticizing ally South Korea.
Trump and his people would be better off saying nothing. Let this crazy fat kid play with his fireworks. I can't see how this situation will exist a year from now.
Currently there are 5 carriers within 10 days of N Korea.
ReplyDeleteThat would be almost half of our Carrier groups.......
DeleteHey! Why worry about the world blowing up? You got Lil Wayne having seizure notifications on this site
ReplyDeleteTime to send special Agent Dennis Rodman on another mission....hey whatever works!
ReplyDeleteAnd we know he and Trump are buds. He was on the Apprentice