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>>> Rex Tillerson: Pre-emptive military action against North Korea is an option <<<


(Now that would tank the stock market, and Trump is just the guy to do it..

Looking back historically (early 1990s), it was the US who actually gave North Korea their light water reactors (Pakistan also got their nuclear technology from us). The excuse given with North Korea was that it would discourage them from developing heavy water reactors, which are more easily used to produce bombs.

The real reason though was to create a boogey man in Asia that would, among other things, force Japan to stay under the protection of the US' nuclear umbrella. Over the years every time Japan begins to become too friendly with China (thereby threatening the Japan-US special relationship), North Korea lobs a few missiles into the Sea of Japan, and Japan scurries back into the US fold.

But now North Korea will soon be able to miniaturize their nuclear devices sufficiently to fit on the long range missiles they have. They already have missiles that can hit the West Coast of the US. So the time is fast approaching where the US will have to neutralize the North Korean threat that we helped create) -




>>> Rex Tillerson: Pre-emptive military action against North Korea is an option


By David Caplan

Mar 17, 2017

The Associated Press



http://abcnews.go.com/International/rex-tillerson-military-action-north-korea-option-table/story?id=46196141



Rex Tillerson: Military action against North Korea is an option 'on the table'

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says pre-emptive military action against North Korea is possible "if they elevate the threat of their weapons program to a level that we believe requires action."

"All of the options are on the table," Tillerson said when asked at a press conference Friday with South Korean foreign minister Yun Byung-se in Seoul whether he would rule out military conflict against North Korea.

His comments came after a visit to the militarized border between South Korea and North Korea and a day before the U.S. secretary of state is to arrive in Beijing for meetings with Chinese officials.

As if to underline Tillerson's remarks, President Trump later on Friday tweeted that "North Korea is behaving very badly" and that "China has done little to help."

Tillerson said in Seoul that the U.S. does not want to engage in a military conflict. "But obviously if North Korea takes actions that threatens South Korean forces or our own forces, that would be met with (an) appropriate response. If they elevate the threat of their weapons program to a level that we believe requires action that option is on the table."

Referring to how the Obama administration hoped sanctions would cripple North Korea to the point where it would renew de-nuclearization negotiations, Tillerson added, "Let me be very clear: the policy of strategic patience has ended."

He also emphasized that the U.S. had no plans to curtail its military activities in the region.

"We don't believe conditions are right for talks and we have no intention of ending military exercises," he said.

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