Pence: U.S. 'ready for any eventuality' on N Korea

Homophobe should be ashamed to stand in front of people fighting to preserve freedom.

Pence is a fool, but good on him for making clear that NK faces extinction if they continue down their current trajectory. At the very least, regime change is an almost certainty at the moment

Wouldn't be surprised if NK launches a preemptive strike for the Olympic opening ceremony. He's already done away with Family members, so his Sister is presumably expendable too.

"Let our adversaries know: All options are on the table [we] will be ready to defend our people and our way of life."

Why can't he realize that the government of North Korea feels the same?

Japan, you waited until China had nukes and you did nothing about it. Russia has nukes and took your islands at the end of WW2, now even a poor backwards country like North Korea has nukes and has threatened Japan with nuclear destruction!

If you want to prevent another Hiroshima or Nagasaki then it's time to acquire this weapons as well! Your pacifist way will lead you to another Nuke with millions of Japanese Dead and injured. Time to wake up!

If you want to prevent another Hiroshima or Nagasaki then it's time to acquire this weapons as well! Your pacifist way will lead you to another Nuke with millions of Japanese Dead and injured. Time to wake up!

War mongering from comment warriors gets tiring. If you're not willing to sign up for deployment, seize and desist from pushing even more means for life on Earthcoming to a halt.

Why can't he realize that the government of North Korea feels the same?

No. North Korea is a dysfunctional kleptocratic thugocracy; as such, anyone who doesn't "feel the same way" soon finds the problem quickly solved (corpses feel nothing). As bad a turn as the US has taken under Trump, there absolutely can be no comparison.

That's not to say I put an inch of trust in Trump's ability to handle what is now a war surpassing 60 years. I have a bad feeling about events which will follow the Olympics. There is nothing like a foreign military conflict to dig out an American president beset by domestic problems.

Those few, shrill voices screaming for war and nukes etc.

Where will you actually be when it kicks off?Just out of curiosity, like.

Pence is here to rile things up. Which is every bit as helpful as the military parade in the DPRK.

I can't believe I'm writing this but it seems that this is the only language NK understands. Sometimes you have to fight crazy (Kim) with more crazy (Trump). No doubt the US is monitoring all of NK and with their 3 (?) aircraft carriers in the area, they are ready to neutralize any sort of NK threat. NK cannot be allowed to further develop their nuclear weapons capabilities because the country is run by a madman who came to power only because of who his father was. Such 'countries' can not be allowed into the nuclear club. In fact, no other country without nuclear weapons should be allowed to develop such weapons. The goal is to gradually get rid of them, not increase their numbers.

Attaboy, Pence!

You mean prepare to sabotage the ongoing and 'eventual ' peace making moves by both Seoul and Pyongyang in the current Winter Olympics?

What an obvious way to expose da-kine Amerikan warmongering business as usual!

The goal is to gradually get rid of them, not increase their numbers.

Well, the Drumpf is resorting a nuclear arms race with Russia now. That is

indeed more crazy. And for all those Americans out there, remember that only

the USA has used a nuclear weapon. Just one country so far. The Drumpf is more

likely to do a first strike that NK.

Pence says this knowing that Japan will get roasted in an all out war, while the U.S. will go unscathed.

"...except for missiles fired over Japan -- we can't do ANYTHING about those."

Once again the US and Japan doing every they can for war and trying to make it look like someone else's fault. Meanwhile South Korea is doing what it can to try and slow down the slide they are helping to build.

While Seoul and Pyongyang are busy blowing their peace pipes in the current Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics , Pence and his super sidekick Abe are frenziedly doin their da-kine war dance!

Beating the war drums during the Olympics is so disgusting.

The White House is panicking that peace might break out.

NK and SK seem to be getting friendlier due to the recent Olympic exchanges.

Pressure upon added pressure is one option but the cheerleaders and instrumentalists can also contribute to diplomacy.

The Berlin Wall fell long ago. Eventually the Koreans need to discuss reunification.

Give peace a chance.

At the very least, regime change is an almost certainty at the moment

Because you say so? Okay.

Wouldn't be surprised if NK launches a preemptive strike for the Olympic opening ceremony

And if they did, that would certainly make them the instigator of a war, wouldn't it?  

How should the U.S., UN, SK and Japan react? 

Those few, shrill voices screaming for war and nukes etc.

It's NK making the threats of destroying Japan and U.S. and firing the missiles and conducting the nuclear tests in the region. 

The Drumpf is more likely to do a first strike that NK.

If that's true, why hasn't he done so already? And if the U.S. is the warmongering threat to world peace like you all believe, why hasn't the U.S. during the past 60 years launched a first strike attack against NK?

NK is firing the missiles and making the bellicose threats of destruction against the U.S. and Japan. 

Beating the war drums during the Olympics is so disgusting.

It's NK who's beating the war drums. First their big military parade showing how "powerful" they are. What's next? Another missile firing with a live nuclear warhead exploding in the skies above Japan or Guam?

NK and SK seem to be getting friendlier due to the recent Olympic exchanges

That will change after the games are over, then its business as usual with NK resuming their missile launches and nuclear tests. 

Eventually the Koreans need to discuss reunification

That's why NK has built up a nuclear arsenal and ICBM missile capability.  Developed for the purpose of intimidating SK into capitulation and agreeing to a Unification under DPRK regime. That has been NK's goals since the formation of DPRK. 

Give peace a chance.

Since you all want peace, do you want peace on terms of unification of the two Koreas under DPRK regime, knowing the human rights abuse by the DPRK regime would extend to everyone in SK after reunification who doesn't agree with DPRK policies?  Look at what Viet Cong regime did to South Vietnam in 1975 after the U.S. withdrew. And what Mao Zedung and his PRC did to the Chinese people in 1949 after they took over.

And how are you going to deal with the SK refugees desperately trying to get out?

The world can stop the DPRK human rights abuse against the Korean people only by removing Kim and DPRK regime.

Pence shut up

It's NK making the threats of destroying Japan and U.S. and firing the missiles and conducting the nuclear tests in the region.

And the US is making threats of destroying NK, which would destroy Japan. The US has done many nuclear tests.

Let's not try to pretend the US is better than NK when it comes to their conflict.

Pence vowed to continue the "maximum pressure campaign" on North Korea in a bid to force Pyongyang to give up its nuclear missile programme.

The North Wind trying to blow the man's overcoat off.

if the U.S. is the warmongering threat to world peace like you all believe, why hasn't the U.S. during the past 60 years launched a first strike attack against NK?

Too busy attacking Vietnam (1955-1975), staging the Bay of Pigs fiasco (1961), invasion of the Dominican Republic to prop up the military regime there (1965), invasion of Grenada (1983), attacks on Libya (1983-1986, 1989), invasion of Panama (1989-1990), attack on Iraq (1991), enforcing no-fly zones in Iraq (1992-2003), the Afghan War (2001-2014), Iraq War (2003-2011), drone strikes in Pakistan (2004-), in Yemen (2010-), in Somalia (2011) plus other interventions, skirmishes and operations too many to mention?

The US apparently does not like to attack places that might retaliate with nuclear weapons.

It's NK making the threats of destroying Japan and U.S

"they will be met with fire, fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.” (DJTrump, August 2017)

And the US is making threats of destroying NK, which would destroy Japan

Oh really?  And who first instigated the threats of destruction against Japan and US? 

 The US has done many nuclear tests.

And so has Soviet Union and China.  You don't seem to be critical of their tests, only U.S.

Let's not pretend NK is a "peace loving country" that wants to be left alone so it can continue its "peaceful" existence. 

NK's longstanding agenda is unification of the entire Korean peninsula under DPRK regime. 

And let's not pretend the DPRK is a "benevolent and peaceful government that cares about their people".  Their brutality and human rights abuse is well documented.  Or perhaps you believe that's U.S. propaganda lies?  And maybe you think it's acceptable for DPRK to continue and expand its human rights abuse against the SK people when the countries are reunited?  You know that will happen.