North Korea keeps up threats against America,
Tension between the United States and North Korea remained high Sunday as Pyongyang released propaganda videos showing U.S. planes and an aircraft carrier under attack.
The videos came after President Donald Trump derided North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, calling him “little rocketman” and vowing at the United Nations to “totally destroy” North Korea if it threatens the U.S. or its allies.
U.S. officials were more restrained in their words Sunday. Treasury Secretary Seth Mnuchin repeated that all options, including military force, remain on the table. But he lingered more on discussing how he has greater authority to punish countries, companies and individuals who trade with North Korea under an executive order signed by Mr. Trump last week. And he downplayed the likelihood of nuclear war.
“The president doesn’t want to be in a nuclear war,” he said on ABC. “And we will do everything we can to make sure that doesn’t occur.”
In Pyongyang, however, the rhetoric and the images evoked the possibility of war on the horizon.
Photoshopped pictures from a state-owned propaganda website, DPRK Today, purported to show a North Korean missile making a direct hit on B-1B Lancer bombers and an F35 fighter jet. In the doctored shots, the planes were engulfedin flames.
Another falsified video on the website showed a missile launched from a North Korean submarine strike a nuclear-powered supercarrier.
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