{"id":329840,"date":"2017-10-10T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T09:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-draws-up-plans-to-back-us-military-attack-on-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T10:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T09:22:46","slug":"uk-draws-up-plans-to-back-us-military-attack-on-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-draws-up-plans-to-back-us-military-attack-on-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"UK draws up plans to back US military attack on North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UK draws up plans to back US military attack on North Korea<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Robert Stevens<br \/>\n    <br \/>10 October 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The British government is in discussions with the Trump administration on its role in a military confrontation with North Korea. On Monday, the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> published an article that included detailed information on the British military\u2019s plans to back the US military. The article cited Royal Navy, government and civil service sources.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Mail<\/em> said a war against Korea would involve Britain sending a fleet to the Korean peninsula, along similar lines as what Britain did in its war against Argentina in 1982. The <em>Mail<\/em> stated, \u201cOne option involves deploying Britain\u2019s new aircraft carrier\u2014due to be handed over to the Navy later this year\u2014to the region before she has undergone flight trials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under this scenario, the \u00a33 billion HMS Queen Elizabeth, carrying 12 F-35B fighter jets, would join US warships off the Korean peninsula. The Queen Elizabeth carrier is currently involved in a sea trial around its Portsmouth base and not due to enter full service until 2020. However, the article noted that the ship \u201cwill be commissioned at the end of this year.\u201d It continued, \u201cNavy sources said she could technically then be sent to war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article stated, \u201cIn 1982, aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious was rushed into service early for the war with Argentina.\u201d The report cited a \u201cNavy source\u201d saying, \u201cIn the Falklands we had to react to an event and HMS Illustrious was accelerated to respond. This was a reaction to protect British territory, however. In this case [North Korea], the UK would be part of a united global coalition. We would see what support we could give.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper also cited a \u201csenior Whitehall source, who said, \u2018We have plenty of ships to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/10\/10\/brit-o10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UK draws up plans to back US military attack on North Korea By Robert Stevens 10 October 2017 The British government is in discussions with the Trump administration on its role in a military confrontation with North Korea. On Monday, the Daily Mail published an article that included detailed information on the British military\u2019s [&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-329840","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\/329840","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=329840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}