{"id":420053,"date":"2017-09-19T17:01:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T17:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/19\/us-would-destroy-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T17:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T17:01:22","slug":"us-would-destroy-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/19\/us-would-destroy-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"US would destroy North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">US President Donald Trump has told the UN General Assembly that America would destroy North Korea if forced to defend itself or its allies.<\/p>\n<p>In his debut speech, he mocked North Korea\u2019s leader, Kim Jong-un, saying: \u201cRocket man is on a suicide mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has tested nuclear bombs and missiles in defiance of the UN.<\/p>\n<p>The American leader also attacked Iran, saying it was a \u201ccorrupt dictatorship\u201d which was intent on destabilising the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>He called on the government in Tehran to cease supporting terrorism and again criticised the Obama-era deal over Iran\u2019s nuclear programme, which he called an embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>In other parts of his speech he:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">said the US could \u201cno longer be taken advantage of or enter one-sided deals\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">said the crisis in Venezuela, which is led by a leftwing government hostile to the US, was \u201cunacceptable\u201d and the America could not \u201cstand by and watch\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">denounced socialism as an ideology, saying it had only brought \u201canguish and devastation and failure\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Washington has repeatedly warned North Korea over its weapons tests, which violate UN Security Council resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis worsened last month when the North announced plans to test missiles around the US Pacific territory of Guam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf [the US] is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea,\u201d Mr Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump\u2019s threat to \u201ctotally destroy\u201d North Korea is implausible, according to Stewart Patrick, a senior fellow at the New York think tank the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually am very sceptical,\u201d he told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the folks in the Pentagon when they look at military options are just aghast at the potential loss of life that could occur with at a minimum hundreds of thousands of South Koreans killed in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m sure that [for] the South Korean government, the last thing on their mind right now is the notion that the United States should launch an attack, a pre-emptive attack of some sort on North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">\u2018An embarrassment\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The 2015 deal between Iran, the US and other world powers, including China and Russia, was designed to prevent Iran developing a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the United States, and I don\u2019t think you\u2019ve heard the last of it,\u201d Mr Trump told the General Assembly on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s government, he said, was bent on \u201cdeath and destruction\u201d, while its people wanted change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther than the vast military power of the United States\u2026 Iran\u2019s people are what their leaders fear the most,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Using almost biblical language, the American leader portrayed the world in terms of \u201cdecent nations\u201d confronted with \u201crogue regimes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scourge of our planet today is a small group of rogue regimes that violate every principle on which the United Nations is based,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey respect neither their own citizens nor the sovereign rights of their countries. If the righteous many do not confront the wicked few then evil will triumph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen decent people and nations become bystanders to history the forces of destruction only gather power and strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some nations were \u201cgoing to Hell\u201d, Mr Trump said, but the UN could help them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: BBC<\/strong><\/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>US President Donald Trump has told the UN General Assembly that America would destroy North Korea if forced to defend itself or its allies. 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