{"id":306042,"date":"2017-05-01T01:19:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T00:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-planning-for-war-with-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T01:19:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T00:19:43","slug":"canada-planning-for-war-with-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/canada-planning-for-war-with-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada planning for war with North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Canada planning for war with North Korea<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Roger Jordan<br \/>\n    <br \/>29 April 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>As the Trump administration continues to recklessly escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula, Canada\u2019s Liberal government has given its strongest indication yet that Canadian troops would join a war with North Korea\u2014a war that could result in the deaths of millions and trigger a nuclear clash between major powers.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan revealed April 21 that in the event of a US conflict with North Korea, Washington might well use the US-led United Nations Korea Command to mobilize troops and materiel from its allies. Korea Command, which includes Canada, was established at the onset of the 1950-53 Korean War.<\/p>\n<p>While Sajjan maintained that Ottawa was focused on \u201cdiplomacy\u201d first, he stressed that military plans for crisis situations on the Korean peninsula have been developed. According to the <em>Canadian Press<\/em>, policy documents prepared for former Defence Minister Peter MacKay in 2010 stated that if fighting broke out, the UN Command (UNC) \u201cstructure would be used as a means of force generating, and receiving and tasking any contributions that UNC sending states may choose to contribute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sajjan\u2019s remarks followed bellicose anti-North Korean remarks from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. While in France earlier this month to commemorate the Battle of Vimy Ridge, a First World War battle in which 10,000 Canadians were killed or injured, Trudeau denounced the \u201cdangerous and unstable North Korean regime.\u201d Siding fully with Washington\u2019s provocative actions, which have included sending an aircraft carrier strike group to the region and the deployment of the THAAD missile defence system to South Korea, he continued, \u201cThis rogue regime in North Korea is a danger not only to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/04\/29\/cank-a29.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Canada planning for war with North Korea By Roger Jordan 29 April 2017 As the Trump administration continues to recklessly escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula, Canada\u2019s Liberal government has given its strongest indication yet that Canadian troops would join a war with North Korea\u2014a war that could result in the deaths of millions [&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-306042","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\/306042","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=306042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}