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Donald Trump says US safe from North Korean nuclear strike - no thanks to China
Source: The Guardian and agencies
Donald Trump says US safe from North Korean nuclear strike no thanks to China
It wont happen: president-elect dismisses Kim Jong-uns claim
of an upcoming ICBM test but says Beijing wont help bring the
regime to heel
Justin McCurry in Osaka and agencies
Tuesday 3 January 2017 08.43 GMT
Donald Trump has said no North Korean nuclear bomb will reach the US mainland, a day after the regime in Pyongyang claimed it was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
The president-elect who has yet to articulate his incoming administrations approach to North Koreas nuclear weapons programme also took another swipe at China, accusing Beijing of failing to rein in the Norths nuclear ambitions.
North Korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the US. It wont happen! Trump tweeted.
It was not clear what Trump meant: whether he believed North Korea was incapable of developing a reliable ICBM, or that the US would prevent it doing so.
He went on to reignite his verbal tit-for-tat with Beijing, this time linking trade to what he called Chinas unwillingness to exert pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons programme.
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It wont happen: president-elect dismisses Kim Jong-uns claim
of an upcoming ICBM test but says Beijing wont help bring the
regime to heel
Justin McCurry in Osaka and agencies
Tuesday 3 January 2017 08.43 GMT
Donald Trump has said no North Korean nuclear bomb will reach the US mainland, a day after the regime in Pyongyang claimed it was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
The president-elect who has yet to articulate his incoming administrations approach to North Koreas nuclear weapons programme also took another swipe at China, accusing Beijing of failing to rein in the Norths nuclear ambitions.
North Korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the US. It wont happen! Trump tweeted.
It was not clear what Trump meant: whether he believed North Korea was incapable of developing a reliable ICBM, or that the US would prevent it doing so.
He went on to reignite his verbal tit-for-tat with Beijing, this time linking trade to what he called Chinas unwillingness to exert pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons programme.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/03/trump-says-us-safe-from-north-korean-nuclear-strike-no-thanks-to-china
This is so reassuring.
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Donald Trump says US safe from North Korean nuclear strike - no thanks to China (Original Post)
Eugene
Jan 2017
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HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)1. North Korea is decades from having a delivery system that can realistically target the US given our
defenses. To target South Korea, they can wait for a good wind and set it off on NK soil.
gordianot
(15,238 posts)2. Nuclear war anywhere on the planet is a disaster.
The economic interconnections are there and industrial civilization is more fragile than any of us want to find out.