{"id":321184,"date":"2017-08-11T03:14:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T02:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-nuclear-war-threat-against-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2017-08-11T03:14:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T02:14:33","slug":"trumps-nuclear-war-threat-against-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-nuclear-war-threat-against-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s nuclear war threat against North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Trump\u2019s nuclear war threat against North Korea<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    10 August 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<div>\n<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to unleash \u201cfire and fury like the world has never seen\u201d against the impoverished and oppressed nation of North Korea has sent shockwaves of dread and anxiety around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The very week that survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were marking the 72nd anniversary of the US atomic bombings that killed nearly a quarter million Japanese men, women and children, the American president interrupted his golf vacation to threaten a nuclear war in Asia with incalculable consequences for all of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>A senior White House aide tried to play down the chilling implications of Trump\u2019s statement, telling the media that the president\u2019s comment had been \u201cunplanned and spontaneous,\u201d while US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Americans they \u201cshould sleep well at night, have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet even as these less than convincing reassurances were being uttered, Trump\u2019s defense secretary, the former Marine General James \u201cMad Dog\u201d Mattis, routinely referred to by the media as the \u201cadult in the room\u201d and a force for moderation, echoed the president\u2019s threat. He demanded Wednesday that North Korea \u201ccease any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people.\u201d The meaning is unmistakable: bow to Washington\u2019s demands or face nuclear annihilation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump himself followed up his earlier threat with a tweet Wednesday boasting of Washington\u2019s ability to prosecute a nuclear war. \u201cMy first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal,\u201d he declared. \u201cIt is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before. Hopefully we will never&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/08\/10\/kore-a10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Trump\u2019s nuclear war threat against North Korea 10 August 2017 US President Donald Trump\u2019s threat to unleash \u201cfire and fury like the world has never seen\u201d against the impoverished and oppressed nation of North Korea has sent shockwaves of dread and anxiety around the world. The very week that survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki [&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-321184","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\/321184","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=321184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}