{ "error": "", "type": "text", "title": "Media Availability with Secretary Mattis en route to Hawaii - North and South Korea", "slug": "media-availability-with-secretary-mattis-en-route-to-hawaii", "text": "
\"The defense of South Korea is a treaty alliance with us. There is not a peace treaty. There is only an armistice right now. So, from the day the fight -- fighting ended in 1953, there's been military forces along the -- what we call the Demilitarized Zone -- all along the southern side of that. And, numerous times, North Korea has violated that over the years, and out in the waters, and even against airliners -- civilian airliners, that sort of thing. So those military options remain, since 1953, in place. They remain there today. We could fight tonight, shoulder to shoulder with the Koreans -- or South Koreans, if they're attacked.\"<\/p>", "quote": null, "citation": "