A day after North Korea threats emerged to conduct a new ballistic missile launch, President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter that only one thing will work.
“Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid ... hasn’t worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of U.S. negotiators,” Trump wrote on Twitter on Oct. 7.
He added that “Sorry, but only one thing will work!”.
The delegation also said they were shown calculations by the regime to prove that their missiles can reach the U.S. mainland.
“They are preparing for new tests of a long-range missile. They even gave us mathematical calculations that they believe prove that their missile can hit the west coast of the United States,” said Russian lawmaker Anton Morozov, a member of the Russian lower house of parliament’s international affairs committee.
“As far as we understand, they intend to launch one more long-range missile in the near future. And in general, their mood is rather belligerent,” he said.
Earlier this week, a top CIA official for the Korean Peninsula, said that the United States is expecting some new provocation from Kim on Oct. 10.
“I told my own staff October 10 is the Korean Workers Party founding day, that’s Tuesday in North Korea, but that’s Monday, Columbus Day holiday in the U.S., so stand by your phones,” Yong Suk Lee, deputy assistant director of the CIA’s Korea Mission Center, told students and reporters at George Washington University.
President Trump has been a strong critic of failed efforts by previous administrations to prevent North Korea from obtaining nuclear weapons.
“This shouldn’t be handled now—but I’m going to handle it, because we have to handle it,” Trump said.
President Bill Clinton reached an agreement with the North Korean regime in 1994 that provided it with aid and two light-water nuclear reactors in exchange for an end to its nuclear weapons program.
North Korea eventually broke the agreement and conducted its first underground nuclear test in 2006. It has conducted five more nuclear tests since, the most recent one in early September.
Nuclear Test Over Pacific?
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho announced last month while visiting New York for the UN General Assembly that his country intends to conduct a nuclear test over the Pacific Ocean.The statement has put U.S. military leaders on high alert. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford warned last week that such a test would create a nuclear disaster similar to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Concerns have been made worse by the fact that a missile containing a nuclear test weapon would most likely fly over Japanese airspace making the risk of a nuclear disaster even greater.