{"id":70092,"date":"2017-02-03T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70092"},"modified":"2017-02-03T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:07:02","slug":"news-from-norkiland-mad-dog-pays-a-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70092","title":{"rendered":"News from Norkiland: Mad Dog Pays a Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/300px-USS_Mason_DDG-87-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m easily impressed, but it seems to me that the new administration in the White House got to work right away, with less &#8216;look at me&#8217; than we&#8217;ve seen in a while.<\/p>\n<p>This includes SecDef Mattis&#8217;s putting the Norks On Notice to mind their P&#8217;s, Q&#8217;s, and nukes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-southkorea-usa-mattis-idUSKBN15I060\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-southkorea-usa-mattis-idUSKBN15I060<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article: \u00a0&#8216; &#8220;Any attack on the United States, or our allies, will be defeated, and any use of nuclear weapons would be met with a response that would be effective and overwhelming,&#8221; Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said at South Korea&#8217;s defense ministry, at the end of a two-day visit.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Mattis&#8217; remarks come amid concern that North Korea could be readying to test a new ballistic missile, in what could be an early challenge for Trump&#8217;s administration.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This does come hard on the heels of the \u00a0South&#8217;s now-former President Park being fired for corruption. \u00a0If GEN Mattis is there in Norkiland, I do hope he pulls a Reagan and goes to visit the DMZ to blow some kisses at the Nork soldiers, while he&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I do know that&#8217;s a Navy ship, the USS Mason, but I don&#8217;t have a photo of SecDef Mattis handy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I&#8217;m easily impressed, but it seems to me that the new administration in the White &hellip; <a title=\"News from Norkiland: Mad Dog Pays a Visit\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70092\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">News from Norkiland: Mad Dog Pays a Visit<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-korea","category-nukes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}