Posted on 09/03/2017 2:34:00 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Defense Secretary James Mattis on Sunday issued a stark warning to North Korea, saying the country would be met with a "massive military response" if it threatened the U.S. or its allies.
"Any threat to the United States or its territories including Guam or our allies will be met with a massive military response," Mattis said in a statement outside of the White House after meeting with President Trump.
"Kim Jong Un should take heed the United Nations Security Council's unified voice. All members unanimously agreed on the threat North Korea poses. And they remain unanimous in their commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Because we are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, namely, North Korea," he continued.
Mattis said the U.S. had "many military options" regarding the Korean peninsula, and that the president wanted to be briefed on all of them.
Mattis's aggressive, holiday-weekend statement comes hours after North Korean state media announced the country had successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb capable of fitting on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The move is a show of defiance against Washington and the international community.
The UN Security Council unanimously voted last month to impose sanctions on Pyongyang after the country launched a series of ICBMs.
The council announced it would be having an emergency meeting to discuss the developments.
The Defense secretary's statement matches President Trump's recent hawkish statements regarding North Korea.
Trump strongly condemned Pyongyang's actions, saying the U.S. was considering imposing sanctions on North Korea's trade partners.
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BTTT
Those poor, poor, generations of Koreans.
I’d think that the early stages of response would be shootdowns, but in case the Norkies take umbrage at that, we have to be ready for everything else including glassing the area over.
Truman’s fault...
I wish we could just send in a SEAL Team or other Special Ops to take out the Dictator.
mattis is unhinged as General Turgidson
I know you are being sarcastic, but let’s not forget it was the Clinton’s that gave North Korea what they wanted.
Once again President Trump has to clean up the Clinton’s mess.
Damn red lines. I hate 'em.
ER...the Norks just lobbed a missile over Hokkaido. Isn’t that a threat to a U.S. ally?
But he already IS threatening us and our allies.
From post to post you have demonstrated that you an idiot...or perhaps more charitably...a troll.
I try to out myself in the place of a poor slave in North Korea. From what I read and understand I think I’d hope the US would attack. What do I have to lose at this point! I don’t say this lightly there is no future for these enslaved souls until their entire leadership structure is routed.
The time for warning is over.
Time to take action is upon us.
Kim and his family have ravaged this country's people.
Trump and Mattis will rescue them from his evil grasp.
We will probably have to fight NK but come on..!
As much as I like Bolton, he’s 101% NeoConverative, dying to fight a war for Israel.
THAT is what he is really after —getting sucker US farm boys to nuke Iran on behalf of Israel.
He will fight Iran to the last American.
That woman had less intelligence than a box of rocks.
Better now than later.
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