Will North Korea and the U.S. Go to War in 2018?
With the sour note relations between North Korea and the U.S. are ending on this year, the prospect of war in 2018 is all the more real.North Korea on Sunday called a round of punishing sanctions the United Nations unanimously approved on Friday an “act of war.”“We define this ‘sanctions resolution’ rigged up by the U.S. and its followers as a grave infringement upon the sovereignty of our republic, as an act of war violating peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula and the region, and categorically reject the ‘resolution,’” the North’s foreign ministry said in a statement released by the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).Keep Up With This Story And More By Subscribing NowThe North stated that the sanctions, drafted by the U.S. and banning nearly 90 percent of petroleum exports to the rogue regime, showed that America has come to fear its nuclear power and has become “more and more frenzied in the moves to impose the harshest-ever sanctions and pressure on our country.”Following the 15-0 vote, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said, “It sends the unambiguous message to Pyongyang that further defiance will invite further punishment and isolation.”
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