Haley Warns World: Mattis Will “Take Care” Of North Korea If Diplomacy Fails

During an appearance CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ Sunday morning, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley admitted something that most of the international community – perhaps including Kim Jong Un himself – has known for weeks: The United Nations Security Council has just about reached the limit of its ability to economically punish North Korea.
Responding to a question by CNN’s Dana Bash about whether President Donald Trump’s famous ‘fire and fury’ remark was an empty threat, Haley insisted that the US has held back out of a sense of ‘responsibility.’ But now that diplomatic solutions appear to be dwindling, she would be ‘perfectly happy’ handing the situation off to Defense Secretary James Mattis, the source of some of the US’s harshest rhetoric against North Korea. Mattis, Haley said, would ‘take care of it.’

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Sep 17, 2017.