Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday described North Korea’s failure to launch a missile earlier the same day as a “provocation.”
“This morning’s provocation from the north is just the latest reminder of the risks each one of you face each and every day,” Pence said per a travel pool report, speaking at an Easter dinner at Yongsan military base in South Korea.
He said that the United States’ “resolve has never been stronger” than under President Donald Trump’s administration.
“Our commitment to this historic alliance with the courageous people of South Korea has never been stronger,” Pence said.
A North Korean missile exploded earlier Sunday during launch, according to U.S. and South Korean officials.
North Korea’s vice foreign minister on Friday said in an interview with the Associated Press that Trump’s tweets and remarks about North Korea are fueling a “vicious cycle” of tensions.
“We will go to war if they choose,” Vice Minister Han Song Ryol said.
Trump’s administration on Friday announced a strategy based on “maximum pressure and engagement” and cooperation with China to pressure North Korea to abandon its nuclear program.
I’m pretty sure the military is not the least bit eager to play in the North Korean sandbox. Trump would have to issue some specific orders, not just give them authorization.
Of course it’s a provocation, Indiana idiot. Now what’s your policy? Oh, that’s right, there is none, coz your boss is a know-nothing, the GOP only cares about tax cuts, and the SoS is an unqualified ex oilman who doesn’t like people looking at him and took the job coz his wife made him.
This entire maladiministation is a provocation, dummy. It takes one unfit, incompetent lunatic to recognize another.
I don’t believe that at all. Not one bit. It is a fantasy to think the military, excuse me, his military will be a civilizing force against this domestic barbarism, any more than ICE agents will stop lurking around courthouses waiting to pounce on domestic violence victims to parade them to a detention center for deportation.
While is it not unheard of, an item came out the other day that (alleged) St. Mattis already talked about a strike on NK with his English counterparts. He’s as hot in the ass to start shooting as much as anyone else is.
Let’s face it folks, there are only two things saving everyone: the courts and protestors. The military has great contempt for both, especially the latter and this disgusting, filthy joke of an administration has already shown itself to be most venal and corrupt one ever in this nation’s history.
Now, now … of course there’s a policy. They are going to be resolved, and I mean really resolved. Why, they may even take a picture of Trump or Pence sitting at their desks looking grim. That’s all you need, right?
And if that fails, Trump can always tweet.
That’s it, Distractor-in-chief-in-training. Throw a petulant-two-year-old’s tantrum, because you think it will distract everybody from the Russian Bear in the room for one more day. Give the Chinese another excuse to remind everybody of who the Adult is.
Words fail.