White House: Absurd To Say We're At War With North Korea

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By NICOLE LAFOND Published SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 3:01 PM

The White House on Monday firmly pushed back on reports that North Korea’s top diplomat thinks that President Donald Trump declared war with his tweet about Kim Jong Un this weekend.

“Not at all, we’ve not declared war on North Korea and frankly the suggestion of that is absurd,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in response to questions about the reports.

“It’s never appropriate for a country to shoot down another country’s aircraft when it’s over international waters,” she said. “Our goal is still the same. We continue to seek the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. That’s our focus, doing that through both the most maximum economic and diplomatic pressures as possible at this point.”

After listening to North Korea Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho speak at the United Nations, Trump warned Saturday that the diplomat “won’t be around much longer” if he kept up the same rhetoric as Kim, whom Trump has taken to calling “Rocket Man.”

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WH Spokeswoman: NFL Players Should Protest Police, Not The American Flag

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published SEPTEMBER 25, 2017 2:53 PM

In the first White House press briefing since President Donald Trump bashed NFL players who protest during the national anthem, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Trump and suggested protesting players find a new target.

“I think if the debate is really for them about police brutality, they should protest the officers on the field that are protecting them instead of the American flag,” Sanders told reporters at the White House.

That comment came after a reporter asked about a claim Sanders made earlier in the briefing that the “focus” of NFL players had “changed” from their original stated intent to protest police brutality.

Asked later if she was encouraging football players to protest the police, Sanders said she was not.

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[Thor_MN]

1. Yes, it is absurd. I don't know why the lying cheato keeps saying we are...

[angrychair]

2. Technically, we are at war with North Korea

We only have an armistice, not a peace treaty.

By definition, an armistice is not a cessation of conflict but a temporary pause.

[NobodyHere]

3. We never declared war in the first place

So technically we aren't at war.

[angrychair]

4. Tell that

To the “Korean War Memorial”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War_Veterans_Memorial

[NobodyHere]

5. Does it have an email address?

[TomCADem]

9. Hard To Believe That any American Would Discount The Sacrifices...

...of American soldiers who fought in the Korean and Vietnam War.

[NobodyHere]

10. And who is doing that?

Congress never declared war on N Korea and that's a fact.

[TomCADem]

11. Over 7,000 Americans Died In the Korean War...

...and that's a fact. You can deny that the Korean War took place. Heck, Neo-Nazis deny the holocaust occurred. But is shameful to deny history or make light of their sacrifice.

[NobodyHere]

12. Well many more died than that

Yet somehow you keep missing my point that no war was ever declared by congress.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. I still think MAGA has many meanings that only insiders understand

Make Asians Glow Again

[UpInArms]

7. Someone needs to deactivate the orange menace's twitter account

eom

[Cryptoad]

8. GOP has always thought that everybody shares ,,,,

their reality...... sooner than later that is going to bite them on the ass!