Sentences with phrase «military option»

The Congressional Research Service has prepared a briefing for Congress that reveals the seven US military options for dealing with the growing threat from North Korea.

The dramatic rejection of the British Parliament to any form of military options highlighted the lack of political oxygen to do more.

What the administration has is a policy of «maximum pressure» through sanctions to get North Korea to negotiate, while keeping military options on the table.

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U.S. President Donald Trump had also asked to be briefed on all available military options, according to his defense chief.

Since the hack, the US has repeatedly revised military options for dealing with North Korea, but the breach most likely provided valuable intelligence for Pyongyang.

But while rhetoric about North Korea heats up, the abstract talk about military options, sanctions, and engagement obscures the people at the center of it all: millions of ordinary North Koreans.

In the slides below, you can see the same information that Congress has on the US's military options in North Korea.

In the end, North Korea's rogue leadership and nuclear pursuits exist as political, not solely military options.

«Just to clarify, you said that there were possible military options that would not create a grave risk to Seoul,» a reporter said later.

«Yes, I don't want to go into that,» Mattis said, agreeing that his closely held military option involved kinetic action, a euphemism to describe lethal military force.

And with every known military option — from launching Tomahawk cruise missiles to airstrikes — North Korea is likely to interpret any strike, however limited, «as a prelude to invading or overthrowing the government, even if the United States insists otherwise,» The Atlantic reported, citing Daryl Press, a scholar of nuclear deterrence at Dartmouth College.

Still, Mattis reaffirmed to reporters in South Korea that military options do exist to deal with the North Korean threat that spare the South's capital, Seoul.

The full Senate was briefed Wednesday on the threat posed by North Korea, and the Trump administration is emphasizing that the president's approach prioritizes diplomacy and economic pressure over military options.

A cash strapped Ministry of Defence is similarly sceptical, especially when they saw the Pentagon's briefing on military options delivered to Congress outlined intervention as costing «billions» to be effective.

Foreign Secretary William Hague said the list of sanctions was not «set in stone», but added: «We're not looking at military options here, this is not about a Crimean war.

He didn't know it, but while Bush was humouring him he was also asking General Tommy Franks, commander in chief at US Central Command, to review military options for removing Saddam Hussein, including ground invasion.

Everyone, including [Secretary of Defense James] Mattis, seems to agree that there are no good military options.

Standing in the way of such military options, however, are a «decreased number of operational warheads,» according to the report.

Xi's comments, reported by China's CCTV, came shortly after Trump added to his recent aggressive tweets by saying that U.S. military options were «locked and loaded» if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un acted unwisely.

None of the military options provided to Congress offers a perfect solution, and many offer catastrophic solutions.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson added his voice to the push when he warned that if talks failed, «our military option will be the only one left.»

When asked whether there was «any military option the US can take with North Korea that would not put Seoul at grave risk,» Mattis responded, «Yes, there are, but I will not go into details.»

He wouldn't address the question of whether there are military options available to the US that don't risk an escalation into nuclear war with North Korea.

Trump has hinted at a preference for military options, although a strike on North Korea could leave close U.S. ally South Korea vulnerable to North Korean military retaliation.

He also warned the Maduro regime that a military option was on the table.

And by the way, I am not going to rule out a military option,» he said.

A military option is the only solution.

Leaders in Japan and South Korea worry that Trump might offer concessions that the North's Asian neighbors would find unpalatable, or, if the talks fail, resort to a military option.

Jumping right to the military option stating «we will jail dictators» is not a practical solution (as you may have noticed over these past few decades in the middle east):)

Dr Fox, perhaps the most hawkish member of David Cameron's team, has long argued that it would be irresponsible to take the military option off the table in the west's attempt to stop Iran gaining a nuclear weapon.

The umbrella body for Ijaw youths, the Ijaw Youths Congress, IYC, Worldwide, has explained that military option would not work in the Niger Delta region because...