Japan PM Abe: 'All Options on the Table' with North Korea

As US President arrives in Tokyo on Sunday, he and Japanese PM are expected to act in lockstep in terms of their messaging on North Korea - nuclear weapons and missile development are entirely unacceptable and "all options are on the table" in terms of how this threat may be met.


The political phrase "all options on the table", of course, encompasses the possibility that the United States and Japan might jointly launch an aggressive military attack on North Korea, which they would portray as being "pre-emptive" in light of the many verbal threats that have already been issued by the regime of Kim Jong-un, Al Jazeera reported.
 (Tasnim)
 4/11/17
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