{"id":411117,"date":"2017-08-11T07:05:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T07:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/11\/us-diplomacy-is-gaining-results-says-mattis\/"},"modified":"2017-08-11T07:05:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T07:05:56","slug":"us-diplomacy-is-gaining-results-says-mattis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/11\/us-diplomacy-is-gaining-results-says-mattis\/","title":{"rendered":"US diplomacy is gaining results, says Mattis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">&#13;<br \/>\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.4.4--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">US Defence Secretary James Mattis has said America still hopes to solve the North Korea crisis using diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>After days of fiery rhetoric from both the US and North Korea, Mr Mattis said war would be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d and that diplomacy was gaining results.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang on Thursday announced it was finalising a plan to fire four missiles near the US territory of Guam.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, President Donald Trump\u00a0said North Korea should be \u201cvery, very nervous\u201d\u00a0if it acted against the US.<\/p>\n<p>He said the regime would be in trouble \u201clike few nations have ever been\u201d if they do not \u201cget their act together\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions have escalated rapidly in recent weeks after North Korea tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles in July.<\/p>\n<p>It was further angered by a subsequent UN decision to increase economic sanctions against it.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has said it will finalise a plan in days to fire medium-to-long-range rockets towards Guam, the small Pacific island where US strategic bombers are based, along with more than 160,000 US citizens.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no indication that any attack on the Pacific island is imminent.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mattis, speaking in California late on Thursday, said it was his job as defence secretary to be ready for conflict.<\/p>\n<p>But he said the diplomatic effort, under Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, \u201chas diplomatic traction, it is gaining diplomatic results\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tragedy of war is well enough known,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t need another characterisation beyond the fact that it would be catastrophic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about US military plans for a potential conflict, Mr Mattis said the country was ready, but \u201cI don\u2019t tell the enemy in advance what I\u2019m going to do\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Mr Trump suggested his own statements on North Korea \u2013 where he threatened them with \u201cfire and fury the likes of which the world has never seen\u201d \u2013 had not been tough enough.<\/p>\n<p>He also railed against previous US administrations for being too weak on North Korea and again chided the North\u2019s closest ally, China, saying it could do \u201ca lot more\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI will tell you this, if North Korea does anything in terms of even thinking about attack of anybody that we love or we represent or our allies or us they can be very, very nervous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll tell you why\u2026 because things will happen to them like they never thought possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will tell you this, North Korea better get their act together or they\u2019re gonna be in trouble like few nations have ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, he added that the US would always consider negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Friday, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said his nation would be prepared to join a conflict against North Korea if the United States came under attack.<\/p>\n<p>Australia would honour its commitment under the 1951 Anzus Treaty, he said, \u201cas America would come to our aid if we were attacked\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; US Defence Secretary James Mattis has said America still hopes to solve the North Korea crisis using diplomacy. After days of fiery rhetoric from both the US and North Korea, Mr Mattis said war would be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d and that diplomacy was gaining results. Pyongyang on Thursday announced it was finalising a plan to fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":411118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US diplomacy is gaining results, says Mattis - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/11\/us-diplomacy-is-gaining-results-says-mattis\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"US diplomacy is gaining results, says Mattis - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"&#013; US Defence Secretary James Mattis has said America still hopes to solve the North Korea crisis using diplomacy. 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