North Korea will face ‘fire and fury,’ warns US
US President Donald Trump on Friday said a military option against North Korea was “locked and loaded,” his latest salvo in an escalating war of words with Pyongyang’s nucleararmed regime.
“Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!” Mr Trump tweeted.
The US president’s Twitter missive ratcheted up his already bellicose rhetoric with Kim over North Korea’s weapons programme, as Beijing appealed to the two leaders to dampen their fiery exchange.
A day prior Mr Trump had hardened his warning that Pyongyang would face “fire and fury” if it kept threatening the United States, saying maybe his tough talk “wasn’t tough enough.”
Mr Trump also warned North Korea it should be “very, very nervous” of the consequences if it even thinks of attacking US soil, after Pyongyang said it was readying plans to launch missiles towards the Pacific territory of Guam.
Pyongyang said the scheme to target the island, a key US military outpost in the western Pacific, was intended to “signal a crucial warning” as “only absolute force” would have an effect on a US leader “bereft of reason.”
US INTELLIGENCE BELIEVES N. KOREA HAS BUILT A NUCLEAR WEAPON SMALL ENOUGH TO FIT ONTO A BALLISTIC MISSILE