US ambassador to UN Nikki Haley says North Korea is ‘begging for war’
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At an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said that North Korea is “begging for war.” Her statement came a day after the rogue nation performed its sixth nuclear test. Nikki Haley specified that the U.S. is avoiding war, but North Korea’s actions are exhausting all diplomatic choices.
A day after North Korea tested its sixth thermonuclear bomb, the U.S Security Council held an emergency meeting on Monday. The pending crisis may aggravate as North Korean officials threatened to launch a new ballistic missile to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of North Korea this week.
U.S. officials are already showing impatience. U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that North Korean “actions continue to be very dangerous to the United States.” The president also did not believe that talks of appeasement, as South Korea suggested, will work. James Mattis, the Defense Secretary said that, if North Korea happens to attack, the U.S. will unleash a “massive military response.”
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At the U.N. meeting, Nikki Haley said the U.S. is running out of choices. In her speech, Haley examined North Korea’s contempt for international law and its rejection of the 1993 UN Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. As North Korea advanced their nuclear capabilities its behavior has turned reckless, she argued. “They now fire missiles over Japanese airspace. They now have I.C.B.M. capabilities. They now claim to have tested a hydrogen bomb. And just this morning there are reports that the regime is preparing for yet another I.C.B.M. launch.”
Haley also criticized Kim Jong-un’s behavior: “Being a nuclear power is not about using those terrible weapons to threaten others… Nuclear powers understand their responsibility. Kim Jong-un shows no such understanding.”
Today, President Trump is scheduled to have a talk with South Korean President Moon Jae-on. President Trump is pushing China to severe international trade with North Korea, as a way of deterrence.
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