North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said 71-year-old President Donald Trump declared war on North Korea when he told the U.N. General Assembly Sept. 19 that if dictator Kim Jong-un continued to threaten the United States he’d have no choice but to “totally destroy” North Korea. Ri ignores his government’s complete defiance of years of U.N. Security Council sanctions demanding that they give up their nuke and ballistic missile program. “The whole world should clearly remember it was the U.S. who first declared war on our country,” Ri said with a straight face. He has no memory of his government saying Sept. 13 it will reduce the U.S. to “ashes and darkness,” “sink” Japan and “wipe out” South Korea. Ri said yesterday it was “inevitable” that North Korean nuke-tipped Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles [ICBMs] would hit the U.S. homeland.
Digging himself deeper into U.S. military action, Ri thinks the world is as brainwashed as North Korean citizens, cut off from the outside world. While its true China, Russia and the European Union would like the crisis resolved amicably, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a rare moment of candor, said Sept. 5 that North Korea would rather “eat grass” than give up its nukes and ballistic missiles. Trump won’t settle for anything short of disarmament, not, the U.N. or EU’s plan to enter into talks with Pyongyang, something that’s gone nowhere for 25 years. Since former President Bill Clinton, North Korea has worked feverishly with other rogue states like Pakistan and Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Whether China or Russia supplied Kim with missile and bomb-making components is anyone’s guess.
North Korea’s arrogance knows no bounds, continuing to threaten the United States. “Since the Unites State 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,” Ri said, demonstrating the kind of brainwashing not well understood by the West since U.S. social scientists studied “thought reform” in the 1950s following the Korean War. Showing his cosmic delusions, Ri warned the U.S. “The question of who won’t be around much longer will be answered then,” responding to Trump’s recent Twitter feed. Ri, like others connected with Kim’s regime, has swallowed the Cool Aid, believing Kim’s megalomanical fantasies about destroying the U.S. Whether the U.N. wants diplomacy or not, Trump won’t let this go on much longer.
Whatever Trump’s tweets, North Korea has gone beyond the pale threatening the U.S. with nuclear war. Trump’s Aug. 8 warning to Pyongyang about “fire-and-fury” directly related to Kim threatening the U.S. with nuclear war. “Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won’t be around much longer,” Trump tweeted Sunday. Concerned that things have escalated to the point of no return, Chinese President Xi Jinping asked British Prime Minister Theresa May to try to mediate a diplomatic solution. May has zero influence on North Korea, unlikely to have any impact on North Korea’s nuclear threats against the United States. China, a longstanding communist ally of North Korea, keeps talking about diplomacy while Pyongyang threatens to hit the U.S. with a nuke-tipped ICBM. Pyongyang rebuffed China’s diplomatic overtures.
U.N. officials can stomp their feet, make demands and insist North Korea disarm but there’s no mechanism for enforcement other than the U.S. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday that the U.S. would not attack North Korea because of Kim’s nukes and ballistic missiles. With friends like that, it’s no wonder Kim ‘s family has spent the last 25 years developing nukes and ballistic missiles. China and Russia have conspired over the years in indirect ways to help North Korea develop its nuke and ballistic missile program. China admitted July 6 that it would rather have North Korea with nukes and ICBMs than Korean reunification. Whether admitted to or not, communist China still sees the U.S. as its adversary, insisting that it stay away from its border. Keeping North Korea intact gives China a buffer against U.S-backed South Korea ever taking over North Korea.
Detonating a hydrogen bomb Sept. 3, North Korea served notice that it’s moving ahead with fitting a nuke on its Hwasong-14 ICBM. North Korean Foreign Minister Ri said yesterday that it was “inevitable” that the U.S. would be hit with Kim’s nuke-tipped ICBMs. While it’s doubtful Kim has an operational nuke-ready ICBM yet, the clock is ticking on Trump. Whatever the risks of a military strike on Pyongyang, they’re far less that waiting until Kim gets his nuke-ready ICBM to hit the U.S. homeland. China, Russia, the European Union and U.N. Security Council don’t get that the U.S. has been threatened, real or not, with nuclear annihilation. Trump must act quickly to protect U.S. national security, regardless of efforts by the international community to return to the status quo. Trump’s National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Sept. 17 “there’s no more road left to kick the can.”
