President Donald Trump delivered his fiercest warning yet to North Korea this afternoon.
Trump told the country’s leader, Kim Jong-Un, that additional threats of violence against the U.S. ‘will be met with fire and the fury like the world has never seen.’
‘He has been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as I said they will be met with the fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before,’ Trump added in remarks at the top of an unrelated meeting.
He stopped just short of a firm promise to declare war on Kim’s government if the dictatorship continues to talk about ‘physical action’ to the U.S.
‘North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,’ Trump cautioned after a reporter asked him about the nuclear standoff.
President Donald Trump delivered his fiercest warning yet to North Korea this afternoon
Trump told the country’s leader, Kim Jong-Un, that additional threats of violence against the U.S. ‘will be met with the fire and the fury like the world has never seen’
Comments came during a briefing on the opioid crisis on Tuesday at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster
Trump told the world this morning that it must be vigilant against North Korea in the face of new threats from the country’s young dictator.
Kim had warned the United States that it would pay ‘pay dearly’ for the United Nations sanctions regime it successfully imposed over the weekend and hinted at military action as tensions continued to escalate.
‘Physical action will be taken mercilessly with the mobilization of all its national strength,’ North Korea’s state-run news agency said Tuesday.
The 33-year-old Kim was lashing out at a U.S. push to drain him of the hard currency he needs to develop his nuclear program that Russia and China reluctantly signed on to last weekend.
The sanctions put a hard stop to a third of North Korea’s export revenue – a deafening blow to the country’s economy.
Trump celebrated the universal participation of Security Council countries in the sanctions with a tweet this morning that said, ‘After many years of failure,countries are coming together to finally address the dangers posed by North Korea. We must be tough & decisive!’
A Washington Post report later in the day suggested that North Korea had invented a miniaturized warhead that it has the capability of attaching to the intercontinental ballistic missiles its been testing.
The development brings the country dangerously close to its goal of creating of a nuclear weapon that can hit targets in the U.S.
Alaska, Hawaii and California would be at an especially high risk if Kim’s scientists finish the weapons and North Korea decides to use them.
According to the report, US officials estimate that Kim now has 60 nuclear weapons in his possession. By comparison, the US is estimated to have more than 6,800 in its stockpile, and Russia is thought to have 7,000.
A Washington Post report earlier in the day suggested that North Korea had invented a miniaturized warhead that it has the capability of attaching to the intercontinental ballistic missiles its been testing.
Trump stopped just short of a firm promise to declare war on Kim’s government if the dictatorship continues to talk about ‘physical action’ to the U.S. during the meeting in New Jersey with Kellyanne Conway (left), HHS Secretary Tom Price, (second left), Melania Trump (second right) and the National Drug Control Policy Center’s Richard Baum (right)
Shortly after Trump’s morning message, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley appeared on Fox & Friends to deliver tough talk to North Korea and take a victory lap on sanctions.
‘The United States will respond accordingly, and I think the international community will respond accordingly,’ she said of the dangerous actions that Kim could take in response to the punishing actions.
It’s up to North Korean leader to decide whether his response is, ‘OK the international community is telling me to stop or he is going to have, you know, a temper tantrum,’ she’d said.
Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy worried that Kim is rejecting the international mandate. ‘It sounds like, we are getting closer to a shootin’ war,’ he told Haley.
‘But we don’t run scared,’ Haley asserted. ‘This had to happen, we had to go after his hard currency, we had to stop it.’