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Russian Diplomat Warns US Close to the use of Force on North Korea
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Russian
Diplomat Warns US Close to the Use of Force on North Korea. President
Trump is in a true dilemma; protect the US from preemptive strike
from North Korea and risk China and Russia joining the fight, or do
nothing and allow the Deep state to continue antagonizing Pyongyang
until they do strike. I believe the US has a saying for that: "Darned
if you do and darned if you don't" G rated version.
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tru...
http://tass.com/politics/960182
http://www.thedailybeast.com/north-ko...
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/399482-zap...
https://medium.com/dfrlab/meanwhilein...
http://tass.com/politics/960182
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Nuclear war with N. Korea not ‘imminent’ – CIA chief
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KCNA / Reuters
RT,
13
August, 2017
There’s
no “imminent” threat of a nuclear war between the US and North
Korea, according to CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who explained that
Donald Trump’s threats against Pyongyang describe only a possible
response for “certain actions.”
“There’s
nothing imminent today,” Pompeo
told Fox News on Sunday.
“But
make no mistake about it, the continuation, the increased chance that
there will be a nuclear missile in Denver is a very serious threat
and the investigation is going to treat it as such.”
“What
I’m talking about is I’ve heard folks talking about being on the
cusp of a nuclear war,” he added. “No intelligence that would
indicate that we’re in that place today.”
Rather
than an escalation to a nuclear war, Pompeo argued that Trump’s
heated rhetoric towards Pyongyang was to send a message that its
continued pursuit of a nuclear arsenal and ballistic missile
technology would not be tolerated.
“The
president has made it very clear to the North Korean regime how
America will respond if certain actions are taken,”Pompeo
said.
“We
are hopeful that the leader of that country will understand them in
precisely the way they are intended, to permit him a place to get
where we can get the nuclear weapons off the peninsula.”
“It’s
that straightforward,” Pompeo
said. “What
we need from an intelligence perspective, what is most important is
that our communications are clear that the fella who intends to
inflict pain on the United States of America understands the US
position in an unambiguous way. That’s the best message you can
deliver to someone who’s putting America at risk.”
‘Public told N. Korea war won’t kill people in US’
However,
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that both
sides were inching dangerously close to a confrontation.
“How
close have we come to this situation? Yes, we’ve come very close to
a possible armed conflict,” she
said in an interview with the TV channel Russia-1.
“If
there really is an armed force scenario and if everything indeed
happens the way the Washington establishment is trying to scare us
all with, the situation will be simply catastrophic,” she
added, before noting that that “the
whole world tried to prevent the sprawl of the disaster” of
the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, back in 2011.
Zakharova
said that the United States was not considering the full
repercussions of an armed conflict in the region.
“The
representatives of the establishment, the senators, they try to say
to the public that they will not even have to worry about it, because
people will die not in the US, but in other countries, though not
just in North Korea,” she
explained. “I
think they are thinking of South Korea as well.”
President
Trump has taken a harsher stance against North Korea than his
predecessor, Barack Obama, while Pyongyang has carried on ignoring
sanctions and UN Security Council rulings against its nuclear weapons
program. The war of words between the two sides took a more serious
turn on Tuesday, when Trump threatened to meet North Korea with “fire
and fury” if
it continues to make threats against the United States. Pyongyang
responded by saying it was working on a plan to launch a medium-range
ballistic missile close to the US territory of Guam, some 3,200km
from North Korea.
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