Thread: Nikki Haley: Trump's fire and fury comment 'not an empty threat'

Nikki Haley: Trump's fire and fury comment 'not an empty threat'

By Eli Watkins, CNN
Updated 10:43 AM ET, Sun September 17, 2017

Haley: If we have to, N. Korea will be destroyed

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Washington (CNN )US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said President Donald Trump's "fire and fury" comment last month about North Korea's nuclear program was not an empty threat.

In an interview that aired Sunday with CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union," Haley emphasized that Defense Secretary James Mattis has an array of options to destroy the nation of some 25 million people.

If the US exhausts diplomatic options on North Korea, the US military would "take care of it," Haley said,

"We wanted to be responsible and go through all diplomatic means to get their attention first," Haley said. "If that doesn't work, General Mattis will take care of it."

Haley warned a war would mean the destruction of North Korea.

"If North Korea keeps on with this reckless behavior, if the United States has to defend itself or defend its allies in any way, North Korea will be destroyed," Haley said. "And we all know that, and none of us want that."

The United Nations Security Council adopted a new round of sanctions on North Korea last Monday in response to the nation's sixth and largest nuclear weapons test.

Trump called the move "another very small step," but Haley talked up the significance of the agreement and went on to say it was near the limit of what the US could accomplish through the UN.

"We have pretty much exhausted all the things that we could do at the Security Council at this point," she said.
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The UN is such as waste of money they have become to NWO and greedy to be of any use to any country anymore. It was originally only started as a Temporary fix. It has overstayed its welcome.

They are completely useless other than as a public relations tool, and that's really all they should be when you think about it. A place to meet and greet and discuss and negotiate. But when it comes down to actually solving a problem, they are not the vehicle. It's always USA.

Give the UN a 30-day notice to vacate the building and get them OFF our soil.

Go set up shop in the Middle East.

I'm not ready to write them off yet, I would like to see what our new President can do to solve the problems with the UN, return it to its original mission, streamline it, redirect its goals to peace at high critical levels and see what happens. It may be a lost place with a lost cause, but maybe not. Maybe like NATO issues, the UN issues need stronger American leadership. All we've had there for decades were butt-kissers handing out our money.