BREAKING Mattis Just Sent Brutal Message To Every Single Member Of Military- Here�s
What He Said
US Defense Secretary James Mattis has told American troops to be prepared for war as
the United Nations voted to pass the toughest-ever sanctions on North Korea.
The 82nd Airborne Division is an airborne infantry division of the United States Army,
specializing in parachute assault operations into denied areas.
Based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the 82nd Airborne Division is part of the XVIII Airborne
Corps.
The 82nd Airborne Division is the U.S. Army�s most strategically mobile division.
Some sources consider the 82nd Airborne Division the most highly trained light infantry division
in the world.
Recently the 82nd Airborne has been conducting operations in Iraq.
The 82nd Airborne has been assigned to advise and assist Iraqi Security Forces.
The new UN sanctions, adopted on Friday by a vote of 15-0, seeks to ban nearly 90 per
cent of refined petroleum exports to North Korea and demands the repatriation in two
years of some 100,000 North Korean laborers who work abroad.
China and Russia joined in the vote, but only after the Trump administration agreed to soften
a couple of provisions.
Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the UN, thanked the other UN Security Council members
� especially China � for coming together on the resolution and said further North Korean
defiance would �invite further punishment and isolation�.
The sanctions are the latest efforts to force the nuclear-armed country into negotiations
over its nuclear program.
Analysts say the US is fast running out of options.
Even the Central Intelligence Agency has said no amount of economic sanctions will force
the North to give up its nuclear arsenal.
�If the game plan is to use sanctions as the last non-military policy tool to induce
North Korea�s return to the denuclearization table, we may quickly find Washington prioritizing
military options,� ~ John Park, director of the Korea Working Group at Harvard Kennedy
School
During a tour of US bases on Friday, SOD Mattis told soldiers and airmen of the elite 82nd
Airborne Division at the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina: �My fine young soldiers,
the only way our diplomats can speak with authority and be believed is if you�re ready
to go.�
His comments were carried in the military journal Stars and Stripes.
During his visit to another US base, the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Mr Mattis told the soldiers
�you all have to be ready to go� if diplomacy fails.
The US could not assume that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un does not seek nuclear war,
said the retired general.
The Telegraph newspaper, in an exclusive article published on Dec 20, quoted unnamed sources
as saying the US is drawing up plans for a �bloody nose� military attack on North
Korea.
It quoted an unnamed former US security official briefed on policy as saying: �The Pentagon
is trying to find options that would allow them to punch the North Koreans in the nose,
get their attention and show that we�re serious.�
A source told The Sunday Times that such a strike was a possibility, especially if North
Korea were to conduct another missile test.
The strike, if it happens, could take the form of cruise missiles targeting a North
Korean nuclear or missile facility, the source told The Sunday Times on condition of anonymity.



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