North Korea Says "Loud-Mouthed" Trump's "Reckless" Syria Bombings Justify Their Nuclear ProgramIf a secondary goal of the Trump administration's recent bombing of a Syrian airfield was to send a strong a message to North Korea that their missile launch provocations will not be tolerated, it didn't work.
According to the Associated Press, a North Korean Foreign Ministry official recently spoke on the state-run Korean Central News Agency and described U.S. airstrikes in Syria as "absolutely unpardonable" and said they simply served to prove that its nuclear weapons are justified to protect the country against Washington's "evermore reckless moves for a war."
Meanwhile, former MI6 chief, Sir John Sawers, warned in a BBC interview that a military conflict in North Korea is far more likely to bring about an international crisis than the conflict in Syria.
“[Trump’s] not someone who fills me with confidence. He doesn’t have the background and the experience and the instincts of being an effective US president, but it is in our interests that we have a US administration that upholds the international system, that supports its allies and supports international norms."
“We see the sensible grown-ups within the administration taking charge and the rather ideological figures around Trump himself being marginalized, and that’s to be welcomed."
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If you are looking for a world crisis which could bring about the dangers of a clash between great powers then North Korea is a bigger concern than Syria."
“I think what
the Chinese are beginning to understand is that if this can’t be solved peaceably through negotiations, through pressure, then there is serious risk that the US will have only one option left, which is the military option."
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