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RKP5637

(67,104 posts)
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 12:40 PM Sep 2017

FFS - North Korea asserts a right to shoot down U.S. bombers

Next turn ... it's like a schoolyard fight, except the consequences are horrific.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/north-korea-asserts-its-right-to-shoot-down-us-bombers/2017/09/25/74da66c4-a204-11e7-8cfe-d5b912fabc99_story.html

North Korea’s foreign minister on Monday asserted that the pariah state has the right to defend itself by shooting down U.S. planes, even if they are not in the country’s airspace.

Ri Yong Ho, speaking to reporters at a hotel across the street from the United Nations, said President Trump’s comments at the General Assembly last week constituted a declaration of war.

“The whole world should clearly remember it was the U.S. who first declared war on our country,” he said. “Since the United States declared war on our country, we will have every right to make countermeasures, including the right to shoot down United States strategic bombers even when they are not inside the airspace border of our country.”

Ri’s remarks were the most direct and threatening so far since Trump gave a combative address to the General Assembly last week in which he threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea.

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FFS - North Korea asserts a right to shoot down U.S. bombers (Original Post) RKP5637 Sep 2017 OP
Trump and team need to be removed, and now, today. Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #1
Millions of people in the US, and these are the asses we have leading this country. Brings RKP5637 Sep 2017 #4
trump is salivating to show how fucking tough he is.....or how deranged he is.... spanone Sep 2017 #2
My fear too, he will go with deranged. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2017 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. Trump and team need to be removed, and now, today.
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 12:43 PM
Sep 2017

25th amendment must be enforced today but

wait

then we get a man who is so immature and childish and such a misogynist he wont dine with a woman not his wife.

Dear god, what have we done to ourselves, to the WORLD!

RKP5637

(67,104 posts)
4. Millions of people in the US, and these are the asses we have leading this country. Brings
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 12:59 PM
Sep 2017

confirmation that shit floats to the top!

spanone

(135,823 posts)
2. trump is salivating to show how fucking tough he is.....or how deranged he is....
Mon Sep 25, 2017, 12:45 PM
Sep 2017

i'll go with deranged.

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