Taking time out of his vacation for a photo op at Trump National Golf Club, President Trump threatened to attack North Korea with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” if they make any threats to the United States.
The comments came after anonymous media reports on a classified analysis from US intelligence officials saying that they believe North Korea has miniaturized their nuclear warheads to fit on missiles. The assessment was said to have been from last month, but Trump’s reaction suggested he believed it was not only new, but something North Korea had announced as a “threat.”
President Trump also tweeted a Fox & Friends report about North Korea having loaded cruise missiles on a patrol boat, after his own administration had refused comment on the same report, saying it was based on classified intelligence.
North Korea didn’t announce miniaturization, however, they did threaten a “mobilization,” but only in reaction to the latest round of UN sanctions, which they described as an attempt “to strangle a nation.” The US had heavily backed the UN sanctions, and Trump has repeatedly bragged about their size.
Reports also suggest North Korea is considered a plan to “preemptively attack” the US territory of Guam if they believe a US attack in imminent. This mirrors the threats of Trump and others to preemptively attack them, suggesting both nations continue to speed toward a military confrontation.
I don’t necessarily believe anything coming out of the mouths of our intelligence agencies, especially the ones today.
The ones that missed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Kim Jong-un sees his bluff and raises Guam.
now you call it a bluff
in all your other post you sound as it is a real threat
proof that you are willing to say anything even contraindicate yourself.
moron
Didn’t Adolf Hitler make bloodcurdling threats like this to the countries to his east ? We have just had Appeasement at the UN and Manila by China and Russia – that one’s called Appeasement – and within 24 hours trump is making bloodcurdling threats again.
Since Obama tried to invade N.Korea in 2010 believing China wouldn’t do anything till the hysterical politburo meeting of August, it is hardly surprising the N.Koreans believe they need deterrent weapons, which is what nuclear weapons are..
Trump’s ourbursts are truly horriifying.
If Trump is getting his “intelligence” from Faux Noise then we truly are screwed.
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un are two immature leaders playing with atom bombs. Both are a threat to the world.
North Korea has chosen the wrong path since the passing of Kim Jong-Il. Resumption of their unfettered nuclear weapons program since his passing,
and the boorish threats of his cruel and childish son will no longer be tolerated. It’s over for the regime. They will be crushed soon.
Will you be the point of that spear, or do you expect my kids to do it?
If your children are in the U.S. Armed Forces, it was their choice.
At present, the only “boorish threats” on the table from North Korea’s regime are that it will defend itself if attacked and that it will not give up its nuclear arsenal as a “strategic option” for retaliation in the event that it is attacked.
I’m not going to defend North Korea. Kim had the blueprint for regime survival from his father and threw it away.
Best coverage of North Korea today:
Runner’s up after the Manila Bulletin.. who would have guessed, Jimmy Kimmel?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jimmy-kimmel-asks-folks-where-north-korea-is-they-have-no-clue_us_598acbb8e4b0a66b8bafc31b
Are Trump’s threats boorish?
I see the threat as necessary at this point.
And North Korea shouldn’t respond to those threats and all the other threats we’ve made since declaring them as part of the axis of evil?
“Axis of Evil” speech is irrelevant. Iran chose the right road, so did DPRK years ago – but not anymore.
DPRK is dooming itself.
I don’t see how it is irrelevant. It seems that is when North Korea decided they were in the crosshairs. History proved them right, ask Iraq and Libya.
Miniaturization is required for mounting on an ICBM. But if you choose an underwater drone — a mini unmanned sub, essentially an ultra-quiet nuclear torpedo with a stealthy anechoic coating — there is no size problem and ***no limit*** to the explosive yield: Teller-Ulam multi-stage device like Tsar Bomba. (The Russians have already announced their submarine drone bomb project.)
No limit means no limit, ie gigatons and up. This has been true since the sixties “documentary” Dr. Strangelove: find the relevant comment at 3:26 on this YouTube clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yfXgu37iyI
“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” Albert Einstein