The United States has yet again threatened North Korea with a military action as South Korea is witnessing a breakthrough in its relations with Pyongyang for the first time in more than 60 years.
Vice President Mike Pence, who has led a delegating of US officials to attend the Olympic Games in South Korea, said in an exclusive interview with NBC News that Washington was not ruling out military options as tensions continued to roil the Korean Peninsula.
On the sidelines of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Pence said the United States would protect itself from North Korea’s by taking whatever “action is necessary to defend our homeland.”
“We’re going to continue to put all the pressure to bear economically and diplomatically, while preserving all of our military options to see that that happens,” he added.
Pence further said that Washington will “make it crystal clear that our military, the Japanese self-defense forces, our allies…