Posted on 12/15/2017 7:05:27 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea: US naval blockade would be 'act of war'
As the rogue regime lashes out again, the Chinese and Russian Presidents warn of catastrophe if there is a military strike.
North Korea has warned the US would take a "dangerous and big step" towards nuclear war if it enforces a naval blockade.
It said it would take "merciless self-defensive" measures.
North Korea state media said the Trump administration was "pursuing a policy of military confrontation but this is nothing but a death-bed struggle by those alarmed by the might of the DPRK always emerging victorious".
"Should the United States and its followers try to enforce the naval blockade against our country, we will see it as an act of war and respond with merciless self-defensive counter-measures as we have warned repeatedly," said KCNA, citing a foreign ministry spokesman.
Although a blockade to enforce trade sanctions is not believed to be imminent, after North Korea's November rocket test US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said it was a possibility.
White House National Security adviser HR McMaster said in September however, that even 'non-strike' options carried the risk of military escalation.
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FWIW, except for a quarantine, I imagine any other naval blockade to be an act of war.
I’m wondering if boarding ships in search of drugs, weapons, war materiel is a naval blockade, though.
Trump should loudly state that if NK launches another ICBM it will be assumed to be aimed at the US based on Kim’s own statements and thus an attack on us - and it will be shot down as an act of our own self-defense.
I realize there is not a certainty of hitting the missile, but it would put him on notice.
Well that is true. If the positions were reversed they would have wiped us out long ago. We have stated repeatedly that we don’t want war. If they want to spin it that mercy is weakness then so be it. But they can’t change basic math which is that we have 1000x their weaponry.
Before we get even close to war the US needs to prepare the american public, the world and NK and so far we haven’t done that.
“North Korea is a time bomb. We can only delay the explosion, hoping that by delaying it, a time will come to remove the detonator,” Shi said on the sidelines of a Beijing conference on the crisis.
Addressing the conference, Wang Hongguang, former deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region, warned that war could break out on the Korean peninsula at any time from now on until March when South Korea and the United States held annual military drills.
“It is a highly dangerous period,” Wang said. “Northeast China should mobilise defences for war.”
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