North Korea states that it has the right to Shoot Down U.S. Warplanes

North Korea Says It Has the Right to Shoot Down U.S. Warplanes, NYT, 25 Sept 17,

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查看繁體中文版 By RICK GLADSTONE and DAVID E. SANGER, North Korea threatened on Monday to shoot down American warplanes even if they were not in the country’s airspace, stating that President Trump’s comments suggesting he would eradicate North Korea and its leaders were “a declaration of war.”

The warning, made by Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho of North Korea in New York after a week of United Nations General Assembly meetings, escalated the invective-laced exchanges with Mr. Trump and appeared to further preclude the possibility of a diplomatic exit from the biggest foreign crisis the administration has faced.

Administration officials denied that the United States had declared war on the isolated, nuclear-armed country of 25 million people, with Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, calling such a suggestion “absurd.”

She also said that “it’s never appropriate to shoot down another country’s aircraft when it’s over international waters” and that the United States wants a peaceful denuclearization of North Korea.

But Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, said he saw no prospect of talks with North Korea that would allow its “de facto nuclear capability.” North Korea’s top leader, Kim Jong-un, has already ruled out giving up nuclear weapons. …….https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/world/asia/trump-north-korea.html?mtrref=www.nytimes.com&mtrref=www.nytimes.com

September 27, 2017 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News

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