PRE-HAPPENING: Mattis, Tillerson, Trump Tell Congress Of ‘Urgent National Security Threat’ From N. Korea

Senators took part in a rare hour-long ‘secret session’ at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House to hear what senior officials described as an ‘urgent national security threat’ posed by North Korea’s nuclear capabilities. The scare-mongering administered by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Director of Intelligence Dan Coats, and a special appearance by President Trump.

The specifics of the threat(s) weren’t disclosed, but here are some broad brush strokes:

• North Korea has improved their offensive capabilities, bigly – switching from liquid to solid fuel missiles, and beefing up their nukes.

Which means

• Immediate economic sanctions until North Korea denuclearizes.

Followed by

• Bombing the shit out of them if they don’t.

Mattis, Tillerson and Coats made the following comment in a joint statement after the briefing:

“The United States seeks stability and the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. We remain open to negotiations towards that goal. However, we remain prepared to defend ourselves and our allies”

The three also noted that North Korea had essentially thumbed their nose at all prior attempts to compel them to scale down their illicit arms programs, so we’re probably going to light ’em up like Baghdad. Back to green camo  and tunnel warfare boys, Tony Stark’s got some MOAB’s to sell!

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del) called the session “very clear-eyed, sober and serious.”

Coons told MSNBC the administration is working to avoid a conflict and “making it clear to China how serious we are about preventing North Korea from developing the capability to deliver a nuclear warhead by ICBM against the United States or one of our key allies, and that there are real efforts being made to avoid a misunderstanding or miscalculation because I do think this is a very dangerous circumstance and situation.” -FreeBeacon

During China President Xi Jinping’s visit to Mar a Lago – which included rich, creamy chocolate cake over a Syrian fireworks display, Xi told Trump that he does not have the kind of leverage over Kim Jong Un everybody thinks he has. Of course, China did switch coal purchases from N. Korea to the USA, could elect to stop selling them oil, and constitutes 90% of North Korea’s foreign trade – so Xi was talking out his ass…

North Korea, as it were – just conducted a large scale live-fire artillery drill this week, sending 300 – 400 rounds of munitions into the ocean to try and intimidate the USA.

Meanwhile, the US war machine is in full swing. In addition to the aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson arriving off the Korean peninsula tomorrow, the cruise-missile flinging submarine USS Michigan was sent over to silently creep around – and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California just test launched a Minuteman III ICBM today.

 

Translation:

Blah blah blah procedural economic sanctions and diplomacy – which we all know won’t work, so we’re about to fuck North Korea up and China better not do shit about it.

If you enjoy the content at iBankCoin, please follow us on Twitter