{"id":49221,"date":"2017-10-27T07:43:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T07:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=49221"},"modified":"2017-10-27T07:43:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T07:43:16","slug":"us-general-warns-global-catastrophe-standing-north-korea-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/us-general-warns-global-catastrophe-standing-north-korea-border.html","title":{"rendered":"US general warns of global catastrophe while standing on North Korea border"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">US general warns of global catastrophe while standing on North Korea border<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">US DEFENCE Secretary Jim Mattis made a provocative trip to the demilitarised border (DMZ) with North Korea ahead of Donald Trump\u2019s Seoul visit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Secretary Mattis attacked North Korea in a statement as he stood feet away from Kim Jong-un\u2019s prison state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">He said: \u201cNorth Korean provocations continue to threaten regional and global security despite unanimous condemnation by the United Nations Security Council.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">He added that the hermit kingdom was developing nuclear weapons to \u201cthreaten others with catastrophe\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The DMZ visit by General Mattis is expected to be seen as the latest escalation in tension between the US and North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">In a robust statement, the General backed South Korea against further aggression and promised to defend the ally from its neighbour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">He vowed to stand \u201cshoulder to shoulder\u201d with Seoul in the face of threats from despot Kim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The world is still waiting to see whether President Trump will visit the DMZ when he arrives in South Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">When pressed on the on Wednesday he said: \u201cWell, I&#8217;d rather not say, but you&#8217;ll be surprised.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">North Korea yesterday labelled Donald Trump a \u201clunatic\u201d and warned that his visit to the South will mean war in a chilling threat to the President.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Hermit Kingdom has long threatened violence against the President and the US, once claiming they would wipe the America \u201coff the face of the earth\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Now a statement from state propaganda mouthpiece KCNA has warned Trump could \u201cbring a war to the Korean 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