Breaking : We Are Not At War With North Korea
(CNN)Such is the state of world affairs that it was news Monday when Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary told reporters that, no, the US has not declared war on North Korea.
There had been some confusion among the North Koreans.
As CNN's Zachary Cohen reported Monday:
North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho on Monday accused US President Donald Trump of declaring war on his country by tweeting over the weekend that North Korea "won't be around much longer."
"Last weekend Trump claimed that our leadership wouldn't be around much longer and declared a war on our country," Ri said, according to an official translation of his remarks to reporters in New York.
"Since the United States declared war on our country, we will have every right to make all self-defensive counter measures, including the right to shoot down the United States strategic bombers at any time even when they are not yet inside the aerospace border of our country," Ri said.
But it's a funny thing, how the US government works, despite being engaged in numerous armed conflicts costing hundreds of thousands of American lives, the US hasn't actually declared war on another country since 1942, when the US declared war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania during World War II.
In fact, the US has only declared war 11 times in its history , according to the US Senate website. Six of those times had to do with World War II, two of them with World War I and then war with Great Britain in 1812, war with Mexico in 1846 and war with Spain in 1898.
Why doesn't the US declare war anymore? It's a power Congress has largely ceded to the President.
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Any reason why it wouldnt be better for Trump to just be quiet.
He does it just to piss you off. Seems he's pretty good at it.