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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu May 24, 2018, 12:34 PM May 2018

Trump threatens war against North Korea - and says South Korea and Japan will pay for it

BRAD REED
24 MAY 2018 AT 12:01 ET

President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to go to war with North Korea if it kept behaving badly — and he said that our allies in Japan and South Korea would pay for it.

During his formal announcement on withdrawing from a planned summit with North Korea, Trump said that both South Korea and Japan “are willing to shoulder much of the cost of any financial burden, any of the costs associated by the United States in operations” if the United States is “forced” to attack North Korea.

Trump then said that he hoped such a step wouldn’t be necessary and that “hopefully positive things will be taking place with respect to the future of North Korea” in the coming months. “But if they don’t, we are more ready than we have ever been before,” the president added.

Trump’s declaration that South Korea and Japan will pay for an American war against North Korea is reminiscent of his infamous campaign pledge that Mexico would pay for his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/trump-threatens-war-north-korea-says-south-korea-japan-will-pay/

video at the link above.

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Trump threatens war against North Korea - and says South Korea and Japan will pay for it (Original Post) DonViejo May 2018 OP
"What do you mean 'we', Keemo Sabe?" The Blue Flower May 2018 #1
when mexico finishes paying for the wall, maybe they'll chip in too? spanone May 2018 #2
Oh they'll "pay" alright SHRED May 2018 #3
By "costs", I'm assuming he's meaning.... Tommy_Carcetti May 2018 #4
Who's going to pay for the Iran War? Cartoonist May 2018 #5
I think I'll start calling him Delusional Don. nt gollygee May 2018 #6
If This Were Even Close To True. . . ProfessorGAC May 2018 #7
Effectively, he is threatening Japan and South Korea too. If Trump nukes NK, it Doodley May 2018 #8
mr deferments sending our wives, husbands, sons and KewlKat May 2018 #9
Yeah, Seoul is going to pay for Seoul to be destroyed dalton99a May 2018 #10

The Blue Flower

(5,420 posts)
1. "What do you mean 'we', Keemo Sabe?"
Thu May 24, 2018, 12:38 PM
May 2018

Reminds me of a joke my dad used to tell, "How about let's you and him fight?"

ProfessorGAC

(64,427 posts)
7. If This Were Even Close To True. . .
Thu May 24, 2018, 01:03 PM
May 2018

. . .wouldn't the heads of state of Japan and So. Korea being doing press announcements 10 seconds after PINO got done speaking?

Doodley

(8,976 posts)
8. Effectively, he is threatening Japan and South Korea too. If Trump nukes NK, it
Thu May 24, 2018, 01:03 PM
May 2018

will have far more than a financial impact on nearby nations.

KewlKat

(5,624 posts)
9. mr deferments sending our wives, husbands, sons and
Thu May 24, 2018, 01:23 PM
May 2018

Daughters sent off to fight another needless war. IMPEACH AND REMOVE HIM ALREADY!

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