{"id":305965,"date":"2017-04-30T11:17:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T10:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-warns-of-catastrophic-consequences-if-north-korea-is-not-brought-to-heel\/"},"modified":"2017-04-30T11:17:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T10:17:42","slug":"us-warns-of-catastrophic-consequences-if-north-korea-is-not-brought-to-heel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-warns-of-catastrophic-consequences-if-north-korea-is-not-brought-to-heel\/","title":{"rendered":"US warns of \u201ccatastrophic consequences\u201d if North Korea is not brought to heel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>US warns of \u201ccatastrophic consequences\u201d if North Korea is not brought to heel<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Peter Symonds<br \/>\n    <br \/>29 April 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>In an address yesterday to the UN Security Council, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned of \u201ccatastrophic consequences\u201d if member states did not take swift action to force North Korea to the negotiating table on harsh US terms.<\/p>\n<p>Tillerson again reiterated that \u201call options\u201d were on the table, saying that diplomatic and financial measures \u201cwill be backed up by a willingness to counteract North Korean aggression with military action if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came as North Korea conducted the test launch of a medium-range ballistic missile early Saturday morning local time, which reportedly failed.<\/p>\n<p>Tillerson\u2019s comments underline the acute danger of conflict that the Trump administration\u2019s brinkmanship has created on the Korean Peninsula. The US is using the threat of an imminent war, which could rapidly escalate into a global nuclear disaster, to bully the world\u2014especially North Korea and China\u2014into accepting its demands.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his speech, the secretary of state repeatedly stressed the urgency of the UN Security Council taking action against North Korea. \u201cFor too long, the international community has been reactive in addressing North Korea. Those days must come to an end,\u201d he declared. \u201cFailing to act now on the most pressing security issue in the world may bring catastrophic consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US has applied immense pressure to both North Korea and China through its military build-up in North East Asia. In addition to continuing joint US-South Korean war games, the Pentagon has dispatched an aircraft carrier strike group, headed by the USS Carl Vinson, and a nuclear submarine, which are currently engaged in exercises with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/04\/29\/nkor-a29.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 US warns of \u201ccatastrophic consequences\u201d if North Korea is not brought to heel By Peter Symonds 29 April 2017 In an address yesterday to the UN Security Council, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned of \u201ccatastrophic consequences\u201d if member states did not take swift action to force North Korea to the negotiating table [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-305965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}