{"id":304315,"date":"2017-04-19T01:52:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T00:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/washington-pushes-world-to-brink-of-nuclear-war\/"},"modified":"2017-04-19T01:52:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T00:52:32","slug":"washington-pushes-world-to-brink-of-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/washington-pushes-world-to-brink-of-nuclear-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington pushes world to brink of nuclear war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Washington pushes world to brink of nuclear war<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    18 April 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The repeated statements by US Vice President Mike Pence and other Trump administration officials Monday that the \u201cera of strategic patience\u201d with North Korea is over and \u201call options are on the table\u201d have laid bare the mounting threat that Washington will provoke a war on the Korean peninsula involving the use of nuclear weapons and the deaths of millions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust in the past two weeks, the world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president in actions taken in Syria and Afghanistan,\u201d Pence declared during a provocative visit to South Korea that brought him to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) on the North Korean border. \u201cNorth Korea would do well not to test his resolve or the strength of the armed forces of the United States in this region,\u201d Pence said.<\/p>\n<p>This boasting about the reckless acts of military aggression\u2014first, the cruise missile attack on Syria on April 7 and then, a week later, the use in Afghanistan of the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, the most destructive weapon unleashed anywhere since the US incineration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki\u2014cannot be read by the government of North Korea as anything other than an ultimatum to accept US demands or expect to be on the receiving end of far greater violence.<\/p>\n<p>With the naval strike group led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson set to take up a position off the Korean peninsula, the means of inflicting such violence are being put into place. The global implications of this buildup were underscored Monday with the report that both Russia and China have dispatched spy ships to trail the Vinson battle group. For these two nuclear-armed countries, Washington\u2019s launching of a war against North Korea poses an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/04\/18\/pers-a18.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Washington pushes world to brink of nuclear war 18 April 2017 The repeated statements by US Vice President Mike Pence and other Trump administration officials Monday that the \u201cera of strategic patience\u201d with North Korea is over and \u201call options are on the table\u201d have laid bare the mounting threat that Washington will provoke [&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-304315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}