U.S. general in South Korea: Only self-restraint is keeping us from war
Source: Politico
By LOUIS NELSON 07/05/2017 07:32 AM EDT
The only thing holding back the U.S. and South Korea from renewing their war against North Korea is “self restraint,” the commander of U.S. forces on the Korean Peninsula said in a statement released Tuesday, a barrier that he said could be removed at any time.
"Self-restraint, which is a choice, is all that separates armistice and war. As this Alliance missile live fire shows, we are able to change our choice when so ordered by our Alliance national leaders," wrote Gen. Vincent Brooks, the commander of U.S. Forces Korea, Combined Forces Command and the United Nations Command. "It would be a grave mistake for anyone to believe anything to the contrary."
North Korea launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile Tuesday, a key step in its long-held ambition to join the ranks of the world’s nuclear-armed states. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un vowed on Wednesday that his nation would never surrender its nuclear program, according to an Associated Press report, and urged his nation’s scientists to “frequently send big and small ‘gift packages’ to the Yankees.”
Based on its flight time and the trajectory of Tuesday’s launch, the range of the missile tested Tuesday by North Korea could extend as far as Alaska, putting U.S. shores within reach of the often-belligerent and unpredictable Kim regime.
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If you don't count the whole torpedoed a S Korean naval vessel and killing 46 seamen.
Or the whole North Korean forces firing around 170 artillery shells and rockets at Yeonpyeong Island, hitting both military and civilian targets, killing four South Koreans and injuring 19.
