{"id":269220,"date":"2017-04-26T17:09:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T21:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=269220"},"modified":"2020-11-13T15:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T20:46:31","slug":"n-korea-may-get-terrorism-designation-white-house-briefs-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/n-korea-may-get-terrorism-designation-white-house-briefs-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea may get terrorism designation, White House briefs Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Of course, it\u2019s the poor small country surrounded by threatening mighty US army which is the terrorist country. The mental confusion getting worse and worse.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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US President Donald Trump’s strategy on North Korea aims to pressure Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear and ballistic missile programs by tightening sanctions, and Washington is open to negotiations, the Trump administration said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The US stance, which appeared to signal a willingness to exhaust non-military options, was put forward in a statement following an unusual White House-hosted briefing for the entire Senate.<\/p>\n

“The United States seeks stability and the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. We remain open to negotiations towards that goal,”\u00a0a joint statement from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said.<\/p>\n

The joint statement\u00a0described North Korea as\u00a0“an urgent national security threat and top foreign policy priority.”<\/p>\n

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joe Dunford also attended the meeting, the statement says.<\/p>\n

The statement also stresses a US alliance with Japan and South Korea in its strategy for North Korea.<\/p>\n

Among the options was placing North Korea on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Although the statement emphasized diplomacy, Democratic Senator Christopher Coons told reporters after the White House briefing that military options were discussed.<\/p>\n

“It was a sobering briefing in which it was clear just how much thought and planning was going into preparing military options, if called for, and a diplomatic strategy that strikes me as clear-eyed and well proportioned,”\u00a0Coons said.<\/p>\n

The classified meeting lasted around 14 minutes, according to reports.<\/p>\n

A White House official said putting North Korea on a list of state sponsors of terrorism was\u00a0“one of the things”\u00a0being considered, Bloomberg News reported.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the recent North Korean military parade, a White House official said at the briefing,\u00a0“Even the tires are not made in North Korea,”\u00a0according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

“We were not presented with any specific military options and I wouldn’t talk about them if we were,”\u00a0Sen. Coons told White House reporters, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) told CNN the meeting covered many topics already reported in the media.<\/p>\n

Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) told CNN there was\u00a0“no revelation”\u00a0in the briefing, and that it was more of a\u00a0“chance to convey they’re serious.”<\/p>\n

Earlier Wednesday, US Pacific Command Admiral Harry Harris\u00a0told\u00a0the House Armed Services Committee that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile defense system to defend South Korea from a North Korean threat would be\u00a0“operational in the coming days.”<\/p>\n

THAAD is believed to be capable of intercepting intermediate-range ballistic missiles. Its placement on a South Korean golf course Tuesday led to clashes between locals and police, a reflection of the issue’s divisiveness in South Korea. China has adamantly opposed the use of THAAD, regarding it as a threat to its own defense.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Trump\u00a0castigated\u00a0the UN Security Council during a meeting with UNSC ambassadors at the White House. He called on the international body to\u00a0\u201cimpose additional and stronger sanctions\u201d\u00a0on North Korea.<\/p>\n

Chinese President Xi Jinping told Trump\u00a0during a call on Monday\u00a0that resolving the nuclear issue in North Korea can only be done quickly if all relevant countries act together. Tensions had risen between the US and North Korea, as the latter warned of\u00a0“catastrophic consquences”\u00a0over the deployment of the USS Carl Vinson, the US Navy’s aircraft supercarrier, to the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/386266-senate-north-korea-briefing-white-house\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Of course, it\u2019s the poor small country surrounded by threatening mighty US army which is the terrorist country. The mental confusion getting worse and worse.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":282715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}