Vice President Mike Pence was seated near the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Olympic Games. (Photo: Matthias Hangst/Getty Images)
Feb 09, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence applauded the Trump administration's plans for a potential military parade on Friday seconds before denouncing North Korea's showing of its military might a day earlier.
With no apparent sense of irony, the vice president told reporters in PyeongChang, South Korea that President Donald Trump's possible parade would be an opportunity "to celebrate the men and women of the Armed Forces," while the parade held by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was a "provocation."
Watch:
\u201cMike Pence says North Korea's goose-stepping military parade on eve of the Olympics was part of effort to "display a military that continues to make menacing threats across the region and across the wider world.\u201d https://t.co/rgalC4ADI9\u201d— World News Tonight (@World News Tonight) 1518190422
"Make no mistake about it, what we witnessed in Pyongyang...was once again an effort on the part of the regime in Pyongyang to display their ballistic missiles, to display a military that continues to make menacing threats across the region and across the wider world," said Pence.
\u201cThis is why Pence will be no upgrade on Trump. He can utter the rankest hypocrisy while freezing his face in a mask of fake sincerity. https://t.co/p9215PwICP\u201d— Steve Silberman (@Steve Silberman) 1518208572
In a poll taken by the Military Times on Thursday, 89 percent of those surveyed reported that staging a military parade, like the one Trump reportedly admired last summer in Paris, would be a waste of money and resources.
Despite Pence's insistence that North Korea's parade was a display of the potential chaos the isolated country could unleash on the rest of the world, Kim's military is a fraction of the size of that of the U.S.
Peace activists are far more concerned with the damage that could be done by the Trump administration's provocations, including during the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games.
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation sent a letter to Defense Secretary John Mattis on Friday asking him to observe the Olympic truce that goes until March 25 by postponing any missile tests that have been scheduled during the games.
"If North Korea were to test an ICBM during the Olympics, many nations, including the United States, would view the act as provocative and threatening," the letter stated. "One does not have to stretch the imagination too far to guess how North Korea might react to our testing of ICBMs during the same period."
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Vice President Mike Pence applauded the Trump administration's plans for a potential military parade on Friday seconds before denouncing North Korea's showing of its military might a day earlier.
With no apparent sense of irony, the vice president told reporters in PyeongChang, South Korea that President Donald Trump's possible parade would be an opportunity "to celebrate the men and women of the Armed Forces," while the parade held by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was a "provocation."
Watch:
\u201cMike Pence says North Korea's goose-stepping military parade on eve of the Olympics was part of effort to "display a military that continues to make menacing threats across the region and across the wider world.\u201d https://t.co/rgalC4ADI9\u201d— World News Tonight (@World News Tonight) 1518190422
"Make no mistake about it, what we witnessed in Pyongyang...was once again an effort on the part of the regime in Pyongyang to display their ballistic missiles, to display a military that continues to make menacing threats across the region and across the wider world," said Pence.
\u201cThis is why Pence will be no upgrade on Trump. He can utter the rankest hypocrisy while freezing his face in a mask of fake sincerity. https://t.co/p9215PwICP\u201d— Steve Silberman (@Steve Silberman) 1518208572
In a poll taken by the Military Times on Thursday, 89 percent of those surveyed reported that staging a military parade, like the one Trump reportedly admired last summer in Paris, would be a waste of money and resources.
Despite Pence's insistence that North Korea's parade was a display of the potential chaos the isolated country could unleash on the rest of the world, Kim's military is a fraction of the size of that of the U.S.
Peace activists are far more concerned with the damage that could be done by the Trump administration's provocations, including during the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games.
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation sent a letter to Defense Secretary John Mattis on Friday asking him to observe the Olympic truce that goes until March 25 by postponing any missile tests that have been scheduled during the games.
"If North Korea were to test an ICBM during the Olympics, many nations, including the United States, would view the act as provocative and threatening," the letter stated. "One does not have to stretch the imagination too far to guess how North Korea might react to our testing of ICBMs during the same period."
Vice President Mike Pence applauded the Trump administration's plans for a potential military parade on Friday seconds before denouncing North Korea's showing of its military might a day earlier.
With no apparent sense of irony, the vice president told reporters in PyeongChang, South Korea that President Donald Trump's possible parade would be an opportunity "to celebrate the men and women of the Armed Forces," while the parade held by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was a "provocation."
Watch:
\u201cMike Pence says North Korea's goose-stepping military parade on eve of the Olympics was part of effort to "display a military that continues to make menacing threats across the region and across the wider world.\u201d https://t.co/rgalC4ADI9\u201d— World News Tonight (@World News Tonight) 1518190422
"Make no mistake about it, what we witnessed in Pyongyang...was once again an effort on the part of the regime in Pyongyang to display their ballistic missiles, to display a military that continues to make menacing threats across the region and across the wider world," said Pence.
\u201cThis is why Pence will be no upgrade on Trump. He can utter the rankest hypocrisy while freezing his face in a mask of fake sincerity. https://t.co/p9215PwICP\u201d— Steve Silberman (@Steve Silberman) 1518208572
In a poll taken by the Military Times on Thursday, 89 percent of those surveyed reported that staging a military parade, like the one Trump reportedly admired last summer in Paris, would be a waste of money and resources.
Despite Pence's insistence that North Korea's parade was a display of the potential chaos the isolated country could unleash on the rest of the world, Kim's military is a fraction of the size of that of the U.S.
Peace activists are far more concerned with the damage that could be done by the Trump administration's provocations, including during the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games.
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation sent a letter to Defense Secretary John Mattis on Friday asking him to observe the Olympic truce that goes until March 25 by postponing any missile tests that have been scheduled during the games.
"If North Korea were to test an ICBM during the Olympics, many nations, including the United States, would view the act as provocative and threatening," the letter stated. "One does not have to stretch the imagination too far to guess how North Korea might react to our testing of ICBMs during the same period."
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