My personal opinion is: it's a very explosive moments of waiting as to what's next.
Justin McCurry in Tokyo and agencies Tuesday 18 April 2017 11.26 EDT First published on Monday 17 April 2017 14.44 EDT
A senior North Korean official has accused the US of turning the Korean peninsula into “the world’s biggest hotspot” and creating “a dangerous situation in which a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment”.
North Korea’s deputy UN ambassador, Kim In-ryong, described US-South Korean military exercises as the largest ever “aggressive war drill” and said his country was “ready to react to any mode of war desired by the US”.
Kim’s warning came as the US vice-president, Mike Pence, assured Japan that Washington would work closely with its allies in the region to bring about a peaceful resolution to the crisis and denuclearise the Korean peninsula.
“We appreciate the challenging times in which the people of Japan live with increasing provocations from across the Sea of Japan,” Pence said during talks in Tokyo with the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, on Tuesday. “We are with you 100%.”
Pence and Abe repeated calls for China to play a bigger role in reining in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
“While all options are on the table,” Pence said, “President Trump is determined to work closely with Japan, with South Korea, with all our allies in the region, and with China.”
He added: “We seek peace always as a country, as does Japan, but as you know and the United States knows, peace comes through strength and we will stand strongly with Japan and strongly with our allies for a peace and security in this region.”
Along with South Korea, Japan is particularly vulnerable to a North Korean attack as it is within range of the regime’s conventional weapons.
In another sign of how seriously Tokyo is taking the latest rise in tensions, Japan’s defence minister, Tomomi Inada, said Japan was prepared to send troops to evacuate Japanese citizens from South Korea if the situation on the peninsula became dangerous.
Her remarks are likely to cause anger in South Korea, where memories of Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial occupation of the peninsula continue to cloud bilateral ties.
North Korea’s deputy foreign minister, Han Song-Ryol, told the BBC that Pyongyang would continue to test missiles “on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis”. All-out war would ensue if the US took military action, he said.
The Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, said he believed the US was seeking to ease tensions through multi-party talks, despite its repeated insistence that military action remains an option. “We know the situation is tense,” Wang said. “The more tense things
The case comes as the Trump administration has vowed to more strictly enforce immigration laws
(CNN)"The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a lower court opinion rejecting claims by undocumented Central American women and children -- who were apprehended immediately after arriving in the country without authorization -- seeking asylum.
Lawyers for the families sought to challenge their expedited removal proceedings in federal court arguing they face gender-based violence at home, but a Philadelphia-based federal appeals court held that they have no right to judicial review of such claims."
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Looks like our elected President is on the dot of his promise on this problem.
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Korea is ready to blast a Thermonuclear attack
But even then Japan almost annihilated the allies with their combined force, Germany and Italy.