{"id":29330,"date":"2017-07-06T07:19:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=29330"},"modified":"2017-07-06T07:19:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:19:46","slug":"rep-tulsi-gabbard-statement-on-north-koreas-icbm-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/06\/rep-tulsi-gabbard-statement-on-north-koreas-icbm-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Statement on North&nbsp;Korea&#8217;s ICBM Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/gabbard.house.gov\/\">Rep. Tulsi Gabbard<\/a> (D-HI) released the following statement after North Korea\u2019s recent successful Intercontinental Ballistic Missile test:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Korea\u2019s latest successful intercontinental ballistic missile test further demonstrates the extremely dangerous and growing threat that North Korea poses to Hawaii, Alaska, and the mainland United States.  For the past fifteen years, our leaders have let the people of Hawaii and our country down, allowing the situation in North Korea to worsen to this point of crisis where we are left with nothing but bad options.  We must ensure we are able to defend against North Korea\u2019s threat with cutting-edge missile defense technologies, but this is not enough. We must pursue serious diplomatic efforts to de-escalate and ultimately denuclearize North Korea.  However, U.S. leaders need to understand that Kim Jong Un maintains a tight grip on North Korea\u2019s nuclear weapons as a deterrent against regime change. The Trump Administration would be far more credible in finding a diplomatic solution with North Korea if we weren\u2019t currently waging a regime change war in Syria, and contemplating a regime change war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe North Korean regime witnessed the regime change wars the U.S. led in Libya and Iraq and what we\u2019re now doing in Syria, and fear they will become like Gadhafi who, after giving up his nuclear weapons program, was deposed by the United States.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as the U.S. is waging regime change wars, we are far less likely to reach a diplomatic solution in North Korea because they have no reason to believe our promises.  In fact, we are far more likely to see nuclear proliferation by countries like North Korea who see nuclear weapons as their only deterrent against regime change.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSerious diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula will require an end to our regime change war in Syria and a public statement that the U.S. will not engage in regime change wars and nation-building overseas, including in Iran and North Korea. We should focus our limited resources on rebuilding our own country and seriously commit ourselves to de-escalating this dangerous stand-off with North Korea and negotiate a peaceful diplomatic solution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) released the following statement after North Korea\u2019s recent successful Intercontinental Ballistic Missile test: \u201cNorth Korea\u2019s latest successful intercontinental ballistic missile test further demonstrates the extremely dangerous and growing threat that North Korea poses to Hawaii, Alaska, and the mainland United States. For the past fifteen years, our leaders have let the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-29330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29330"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29333,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29330\/revisions\/29333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29330"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=29330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}