‘US
declared war first’: N. Korea says it has right to shoot down
strategic bombers
RT,
25
September, 2017
The
North Korean foreign minister says Pyongyang has every right to take
countermeasures against US aggression, including shooting down
warplanes, even if they are not in North Korean airspace.
Speaking
to reporters in New York on Monday, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri
Yong Ho said that US President Donald Trump has effectively declared
war on Pyongyang, meaning all options were on the table for his
country’s leadership.
“The
whole world should clearly remember it was the US who first declared
war on our country,”
Reuters quoted him as saying.
“Since
the United States declared war on our country, we will have every
right to make countermeasures, including the right to shoot down
United States strategic bombers even when they are not inside the
airspace border of our country.”
Pyongyang’s
accusations that Washington has declared war have been dismissed by
the US as “absurd.”
“We've
not declared war on North Korea. Frankly, the suggestion of that is
absurd,” White
House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters on Monday.
Earlier,
an open letter from North Korea to several international parliaments
said that President Trump’s remarks in his UN General Assembly
speech last week amounted to an “intolerable
insult to the Korean people, a declaration of war against North Korea
and grave threats to the global peace,”
the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a report.
Speaking
before the UN General Assembly last week, Trump said that while the
“United
States has great strength and patience,”
it may have “no
choice but to totally destroy North Korea”
if the US or its allies are threatened.
Tensions
have been running high on the Korean Peninsula, with bellicose
rhetoric and provocative military activities coming from both the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on one side, and the
United States and South Korea on the other. Pyongyang has conducted
several missile and nuclear tests in defiance of rulings by the UN
Security Council, while the US has continued to carry out joint
exercises with South Korea and Japan while ramping up its own war of
words against Pyongyang.
Russia
and China have repeatedly called for a ‘double-freeze’ solution
to the crisis, in which the United States ceases its drills with
South Korea in exchange for the North suspending its weapons
programs. However, Washington has not accepted the proposal, saying
it has every right to carry out exercises with its allies.
On
Saturday, tens of thousands of North Koreans held a rally on Kim
Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang to denounce President Trump, in which
students marched, chanting slogans and holding banners, proclaiming
their willingness to stand behind leader Kim Jong-un.
And on al-Jazeera
Despite Trump's unhinged speech at the UN and other threats ("they won't be around for much longer!").....
The White House (Obama-style) says they have NOT declared war on North Korea.
The rest of us know they have!
Following
the startling, impromptu allegation on Monday morning by North
Korea's foreign minister Ri Yong Ho, who accused Trump of declaring
war on North Korea, and warned Pyongyang would shoot down US jets,
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday
dismissed North Korea’s claims as "absurd."
“We
have not declared war on North Korea and frankly the suggestion of
that is absurd,” Sanders said during today's press briefing.
US
DECLARES WAR ON N.KOREA (WW3)
Of
course you’ve gotta get your priorities right!
"Trump
tweeted about sports a total of 17 times between Saturday and Monday
morning. He didn’t tweet once about Puerto Rico, where 3.5 million
U.S. citizens live."
...and once, threatening North Korea.
...and once, threatening North Korea.
This
is not just a Trump problem - it is an American one - across the
entirety of the country.
Another
country destroyed? Move on, go shopping, think of something else!
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