MoveOn: North Korea petition

Dear MoveOn member,

Today, Donald Trump threatened to unleash "fire and fury" against North Korea.¹ Already, North Korea has responded—with threats to bomb the U.S. military base in Guam.

Donald Trump is making us all more unsafe with every unhinged comment, tweet, and threat. His rhetoric threatening North Korea is exacerbating a dangerous situation, putting the people of Guam—and everyone around the world—in grave danger. While a nuclear North Korea is a real concern, the answer must be diplomacy first, not a rush to a potentially devastating nuclear war.

Will you join me in demanding a diplomacy first approach, and an end to Trump's saber-rattling, which could lead to nuclear war? Click here to sign the petition, which says:

Stop the insanity. Don't provoke a war with North Korea.

Sign Jo's petition

With Donald Trump putting us on a potential pathway toward nuclear war with North Korea, the stakes couldn't be higher.

Please. Click here to sign the petition demanding diplomacy first with North Korea, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks for all you do.

—Jo, Anna, Stephen, Justin, and the rest of the team

Source:

1. "Trump Threatens ‘Fire and Fury’ Against North Korea if It Endangers U.S.," The New York Times, August 8, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/12181?t=17&akid=187833%2E8526217%2EolYjKR

North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S. analysts say

As reported by the Washington Post, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the North Korean regime has not only succeeded in crossing another threshold toward full nuclear weapons status. It is the miniaturization of nuclear warheads, to fit in the cone of an ICBM. The North Korean regime also recently conducted successful tests of Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles with ranges capable of reaching much of the United States. The North Korean regime also has more nuclear weapons than previously thought, up to 60. This news comes two days after the 72nd commemoration of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and one day before the 72nd commemoration of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The last hurdle remaining, the article reports, is an ICBM nose cone capable of withstanding the heat of re-entering the Earth's atmosphere, which U.S. intelligence agencies estimate will be accomplished by late next year.

The article quotes Siegfried Hecker, "director emeritus of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the last known U.S. official to personally inspect North Korea’s nuclear facilities...who visited North Korea seven times between 2004 and 2010 and met with key leaders of the country’s weapons programs."

“The real threat,” Hecker said, “is we’re going to stumble into a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.”

The article reports "The options said to be under discussion [within the Trump administration] ranged from new multilateral negotiations to reintroducing U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons to the Korean Peninsula, officials familiar with internal discussions said." (emphasis added)

As recently reported by Mark Hertsgaard in The Nation, we need to get Trump's finger off the nuclear button! (Take action -- urge your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative to support the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017, introduced in January by Senator Edward Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and Representative Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California.) And, we need to abolish nuclear weapons, before they abolish us!

Negotiations, Not War: Green Party's Jill Stein Warns About U.S. Escalating Tension with N. Korea

As reported by Democracy Now!:

Tensions are again rising in the Korean Peninsula between the U.S. and North Korea. On Friday, North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that experts say is capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States. North Korea says the test was a warning to the U.S. to stop imposing sanctions against North Korea. In response to the test, the U.S. flew two B-1 bombers over the Korean Peninsula and tested its Alaska-based THAAD missile defense system. The U.S. has deployed a similar THAAD missile defense system to South Korea, despite objections from local residents. We speak with former Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein, who just returned from a peace delegation to South Korea. Dr. Jill Stein was the Green Party’s presidential nominee in 2016 and 2012.

See the full interview.

And see all of Democracy Now!'s recent coverage of the North Korea-U.S. conflict, at this link.