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Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis needs to define “threat” in the context of North Korea.<\/p>\n

The defense boss is sounding a bit more bellicose lately, saying that any North Korea “threat” against the United States or our allies could result in a “massive military response” that would annihilate the communist nation.<\/p>\n

Is the defense secretary talking now about a first strike? Are we considering hitting the North Koreans before they strike the first blow?<\/p>\n

I am uncertain why “threats” by themselves would constitute a reason to launch a bloody war against a nation with more than 1 million men in arms, a massive amount of artillery and armor — and, yes, a small but growing cache of nuclear bombs.<\/p>\n

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un issues threat almost daily. He keeps saying he’s going to do this and\/or that to South Korea. He reportedly has threatened to attack Guam, a U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

According to The Hill <\/a>:\u00a0“Any threat to the United States\u00a0or its territories including\u00a0Guam or our allies will be met\u00a0with a massive military\u00a0response,” Mattis said in a statement outside of the White House after meeting with President Trump.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“Kim Jong Un should take heed\u00a0the United Nations Security Council’s unified voice.\u00a0All members unanimously agreed\u00a0on the threat North Korea\u00a0poses.\u00a0And they remain unanimous in\u00a0their commitment to the\u00a0denuclearization of the Korean\u00a0peninsula.\u00a0Because we are not looking to\u00a0the total annihilation of a\u00a0country, namely, North Korea,” he continued.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

OK. We all get it. The United States is the most lethal military power on the planet. We<\/em> know it. Kim<\/em> knows it. The Russians<\/em> and Chinese<\/em> know it.<\/p>\n

I keep wondering if this constant goading of Kim by itself is deterring him from committing a profoundly foolish act. We’ve established to the world that we mean business.<\/p>\n

Now, let’s get back to seeking some sort of diplomatic solution<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Shall we? Hmmm?<\/p>\n\n

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Defense Secretary James “Mad Dog” Mattis needs to define “threat” in the context of North Korea. The defense boss is sounding a bit more bellicose lately, saying that any North Korea “threat” against the United States or our allies could result in a “massive military response” that would annihilate the communist nation. Is the defense … Continue reading ‘Threat’ would bring a huge U.S. response?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[1424,6705,2681,3335,4324],"class_list":["post-24444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-military-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-james-mattis","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24446,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24444\/revisions\/24446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}