White House: Absurd To Say We're At War With North Korea
Source: Talking Points Memo
By NICOLE LAFOND Published SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 3:01 PM
The White House on Monday firmly pushed back on reports that North Koreas top diplomat thinks that President Donald Trump declared war with his tweet about Kim Jong Un this weekend.
Not at all, weve not declared war on North Korea and frankly the suggestion of that is absurd, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in response to questions about the reports.
Its never appropriate for a country to shoot down another countrys aircraft when its over international waters, she said. Our goal is still the same. We continue to seek the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Thats our focus, doing that through both the most maximum economic and diplomatic pressures as possible at this point.
After listening to North Korea Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho speak at the United Nations, Trump warned Saturday that the diplomat wont be around much longer if he kept up the same rhetoric as Kim, whom Trump has taken to calling Rocket Man.
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WH Spokeswoman: NFL Players Should Protest Police, Not The American Flag
By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 2:53 PM
In the first White House press briefing since President Donald Trump bashed NFL players who protest during the national anthem, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Trump and suggested protesting players find a new target.
I think if the debate is really for them about police brutality, they should protest the officers on the field that are protecting them instead of the American flag, Sanders told reporters at the White House.
That comment came after a reporter asked about a claim Sanders made earlier in the briefing that the focus of NFL players had changed from their original stated intent to protest police brutality.
Asked later if she was encouraging football players to protest the police, Sanders said she was not.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sanders-nfl-players-should-protest-police-not-flag
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)angrychair
(8,732 posts)We only have an armistice, not a peace treaty.
By definition, an armistice is not a cessation of conflict but a temporary pause.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)So technically we aren't at war.
angrychair
(8,732 posts)To the Korean War Memorial
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War_Veterans_Memorial
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)TomCADem
(17,390 posts)...of American soldiers who fought in the Korean and Vietnam War.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Congress never declared war on N Korea and that's a fact.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)...and that's a fact. You can deny that the Korean War took place. Heck, Neo-Nazis deny the holocaust occurred. But is shameful to deny history or make light of their sacrifice.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Yet somehow you keep missing my point that no war was ever declared by congress.
bucolic_frolic
(43,258 posts)Make Asians Glow Again
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)eom
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)their reality...... sooner than later that is going to bite them on the ass!