Washington – Entire US Senate To Go To White House For North Korea Briefing

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    FILE - A pedestrian walks past the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Jim Bourg Washington – Top Trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing on Wednesday at the White House for the entire U.S. Senate on the situation in North Korea, senior Senate aides said on Monday.

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    All 100 senators have been asked to the White House for the briefing by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the aides said.

    While top administration officials routinely travel to Capitol Hill to address members of Congress on foreign policy and national security matters, it is unusual for the entire 100-member Senate to go to such an event at the White House, and for those four top officials to be involved.

    U.S. officials have expressed mounting concern over North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, and its threats to attack the United States and its Asian allies.

    President Donald Trump criticized North Korea’s “continued belligerence” and said its actions were destabilizing during a telephone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday, the White House said.

    The briefing will take place at 3 p.m. EDT.

    House aides said they were working with the White House to set a similar briefing for members of the House of Representatives.


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    AlbertEinstein
    AlbertEinstein
    6 years ago

    If the briefing is unclassified, it will be worthless. OTOH, it will have to be unclassified, since most of the 100 senators are not trustworthy at keeping secrets.

    6 years ago

    Let’s see. The congress isn’t playing nice with the White House, so how can we force them to unite around the President? Let’s create an atmosphere of potential war! Maybe even start a war! In a time of (artificially-created) national crisis, congress wouldn’t dare stand up to the President, and this week’s potential embarrassments (like a government shutdown by a Republican congress against a freshly-elected Republican President) would be avoided.

    Objectively, the North Koreans are no threat to the US. What does happen is that every year, the US sends threatening troops and equipment halfway around the world to practice invading North Korea. So, you blame North Korea for threatening to react? These US ‘exercises’ are the largest of any nation anywhere in the world, and they operate very close to the North Korean homeland. This year the US even publicly taunted that they would be practicing an simulated assault on the NK presidential palace. Defensive. Of course, defensive.

    Look up ‘Foal Eagle’, but there are also others with other code names.

    6 years ago

    To #2 - What planet are you on? The North Korean regime has kidnapped dozens of Japanese citizens; their fate is unknown. Over 8,000 Americans remain missing in action in N. Korea from the Korean War. Many were starved and tortured to death. In 1969, the North Koreans shot down an unarmed American reconnaissance plane, in international waters, killing nearly three dozen Americans. It also kidnapped nearly 100 American sailors from the USS Pueblo in international waters, while killing one. It beat, tortured, starved and abused them for nearly one year. It still holds the Pueblo, after nearly 50 years. During the DMZ War from 1966-1969, it killed scores of American soldiers. In 1976, the North Koreans attacked a squad of American soldiers at the DMZ with axes, and killed two of them. The North Korean regime is a threat to the peace and stability of the world. The present dictator of that country is much worse than his Father and Grandfather. He had his Uncle, half-brother, his girlfriend, and dozen of others killed, whom he imagined were “plotting” against him. He must be deposed, along with countless other war criminals there. His people must be freed from labor camps, also.

    6 years ago

    To #6 - You don’t know what you are talking about; I lived through the Cold War, when we had to duck under our desks in school; also, I lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, when nuclear weapons were aimed at NYC.