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A vast majority of countries want to eliminate the existential threat of nuclear catastrophe, and rightly so. But achieving a world free of nuclear weapons is easier said than done, and there is a risk that some attempts to do so could prove self-defeating.
Concern is the mildest term to use to describe the level of anxiety we should all feel as President Donald Trump continues to use inflammatory language in what is a delicate situation that is best left in the hands of informed diplomats. We have a president who is the bully on the playground and, unlike other presidents who were deeply concerned about the lives of those they might put in peril, this man is concerned about being seen as the macho cowboy, locked and loaded.
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis spoke by phone yesterday with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo to congratulate him on his confirmation for the position and to discuss a range issues related to the U.S.-South Korean alliance, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White said in a statement released today. "Both Secretary Mattis and Minister Song strongly condemned North Korea's second intercontinental ballistic missile test on July 28 and resolved to continue to closely coordinate responses to the North Korean threat," White said.
A U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, is seen at a golf course in Seongju, South Korea. On Monday, a major U.S.-South Korean military exercise will get underway in South Korea.
What's the football? And what's the biscuit? Trump has the US nuclear codes that, together with the Pentagon, could launch an ICBM in 5 minutes and start a nuclear war with North Korea, or anyone really. North Korean government launches the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, at an undisclosed location in North Korea.
Despite doubling down on his rhetoric of "fire and fury" and deriding his predecessors for failed negotiations, Trump looks as if he wants to eventually strike a deal with the nation's tyrant, Kim Jong Un. Just look at what Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is doing.
In this image released by the U.S, Air Force, a B-1B Lancer assigned to the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, prepares for takeoff from Andersen AFB, Guam, to conduct a sequenced bilateral mission with South Korean F-15 and Koku Jieitai F-2 fighter jets, July 7, 2017. In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a B-1B Lancer assigned to the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over the Pacific Ocean March 10, 2017.
The endless turnover at the White House and the constant tweeting by the US president has led to feelings that chaos in Washington is damaging the ability of the US to conduct foreign policy. Donald Trump Jr. watches his father Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump leave the stage on the night of the Iowa Caucus.
Senior U.S. national security officials said Sunday that a military confrontation with North Korea's is not imminent, but they cautioned that the possibility of war is greater than it was a decade ago. CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Army Lt.
WASHINGTON >> Senior U.S. national security officials said Sunday that a military confrontation with North Korea's is not imminent, but they cautioned that the possibility of war is greater than it was a decade ago. CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Army Lt.
National security adviser H.R. McMaster on Sunday defended President Trump's escalating rhetoric directed at North Korea and said that he does not believe that the United States is any closer to war than it was a week ago. "We have a very high degree of readiness, so the United States military is always locked and loaded, but the purpose of capable, ready forces is to preserve peace and prevent war," McMaster said during an appearance on ABC's "This Week."
"Well, that's good," I said to myself with a tension-reducing sigh. Congress is taking August off and the Senate actually took steps to keep Trump from making any recess appointments should he decide to, say, fire the attorney general or anyone else.
The hand-wringers were out in full force this past week, moaning and wailing about President Donald Trump's rhetoric regarding North Korea. That the left, the weak-kneed and the RINOs have filled a week of media coverage with rants and dire pronouncements about the supposed dark effect of Trump's bold message to the regime only shows how far down the progressive path Barack Obama managed to push the nation - how far away from the Founding Father we've strayed.
President Donald Trump spoke Friday with Guam Governor Eddie Baza Calvo, who posted to his social media accounts a video of the three-minute phone conversation, assuring the lawmaker that his constituents are safe in light of North Korea's threat to fire ICBMs at the island. The president also predicted a boom in tourism for the U.S. territory in light of the North Korean threat.
North Korea's threat to launch nuclear missiles toward Guam will cause the U.S. territory's tourism to "go up like tenfold," President Donald Trump told Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo Friday evening. "I think - tourism, I can say this, your tourism, you're going to go up like tenfold with the expenditure of no money, so I congratulate you," Trump said during a phone call released by Calvo on his Facebook page.
Faced with perhaps his gravest international crisis yet, President Donald Trump this week responded precisely as his some of supporters hoped and his critics long feared. The mix of plain-spoken bluster, spontaneity and norm-breaking risk that defined his political rise defined his approach to a round of fresh threats from nuclear North Korea.
Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison and vice chairman of the DNC said on Friday that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un is a "more responsible" leader than President Trump. Ellison's statement was so egregious that left-wing activists in the audience gasped.
It's been a week of walk backs from the White House after President Trump took questions from reporters at his golf club in New Jersey about some sensitive foreign policy issues. On Friday, a National Security Council official told Yahoo News that Trump was "being sarcastic" the day before in saying he was "very thankful" Putin had ordered a reduction of hundreds of employees, including diplomats and support staff, in U.S. missions in Russia.