Pence On North Korea: ‘It’s Time For Them To Behave’

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, center,  and his wife Karen, second from right, with their daughters visit the main shrine of Sensoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, center, and his wife Karen, second from right, with their daughters visit the main shrine of Sensoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday said that it’s time for North Korea “to behave” and “abandon and dismantle their nuclear and ballistic missile program.”

“The time has really come for North Korea to get the message,” Pence told CNN’s Dana Bash in Tokyo, a day after visiting South Korea and the Demilitarized Zone.

Speaking in Seoul on Monday, Pence said that “the era of strategic patience is over” and “all options are on the table” when it comes to preventing North Korea from using a nuclear weapon.

“As the President says, it’s time for them to behave, to listen to the world community and to set aside their nuclear ambitions, their ballistic missile ambitions,” Pence said on Tuesday. “We’ve really moved beyond the era of strategic patience. We’ve moved beyond failed dialogues of the past.”

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  1. If he had but the faith of a mustard seed …

    He could say to that mountain —

    " Be you removed from there " ! …and it would obey him —

  2. They won’t do that, Mike. Maybe you know it and maybe you don’t. But you should, you’ve been getting the briefings. They’d sooner nuke Seoul and maybe Japan too. They’ve got enough conventional artillery on the border to do serious damage to the Seoul region no matter what we hit them with.

    You up for that? Because you’ll be prominent among the people to blame if that happens. And keep thumping that Bible because God help you if it does.

  3. Father knows best…

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