‘Sad Day’ For North Korea If U.S. Uses Military Action – President Trump

Unic Press UK: During a news conference Thursday, the U.S. president Donald Trump said: ‘I would prefer not going the route of the military, but it’s something that could happen. If we use it on North Korea it will be a very sad day for North Korea’.

Trump was responding to a question on North Korea’s nuclear/missile programs, which was directed at him by a reporter with one of the several media organizations in attendance at the news conference.

“Military action would certainly be an option. Is it inevitable? Nothing is inevitable… It will be great if something else could be worked out.  Our military has never been stronger. We are in a position now, and you know the new orders. You see the numbers just like I see the new numbers. It’s been tens of billions of dollars more in investment. And each day new equipment is delivered. New and beautiful equipment, the best in the world, the best anywhere in the world by far. I would prefer not going the route of the military, but it’s something that could happen. If we use it on North Korea it will be a very sad day for North Korea.” (Trump: 7th September 2017)

NORTH KOREA ‘UNFAZED’

North Korea has been adamant, seemingly unfazed by U.S. threats of military action. Last month August, the communist State threatened the U.S. military base in Guam, saying it was prepared to make “an enveloping fire in the areas around Guam with medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 in order to contain the U.S. major military bases on Guam.”

Despite a series of sanctions imposed on North Korea by the U.S. government and the United Nations, the communist State that the U.S government had pronounced a rogue State, did carry on with its planned test of a hydrogen bomb on Sunday, the 3rd September 2017. The test was such a massive event that it was registered as a 6.3 magnitude earthquake by several bodies, including the U.S. Geological Survey, China Earthquake Administration (CEA), Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA). In its report on the recent test of a hydrogen bomb, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the state news agency of North Korea, said.

“The H-bomb, the explosive power of which is adjustable from ten kiloton to hundreds kiloton, is a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful [Electromagnetic pulse] EMP attack according to strategic goals.” (KCNA: 3rd September 2017)

UN CONDEMNS NORTH KOREA

On Tuesday, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the recent nuclear and missile tests by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), saying it was the most dangerous crisis of today and “profoundly destabilizing for regional and international security.”

“Yet again, the DPRK has needlessly and recklessly put millions of people at risk – including its own citizens already suffering drought, hunger and serious violations of their human rights… The most dangerous crisis we face today, [is] the crisis related to the nuclear risk in relation to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”, Guterres: 5th September 2017).

CHINA AND RUSSIA CALLS FOR CAUTION

The Chinese government and the Russian Federation had, on 4th July 2017, advocated a “double freeze”, calling on North Korea to suspend its missile launches in exchange for an end to military drills/exercises near its borders by South Korean and the United States. Both countries believe that a military action will create a catastrophe, not a solution.