Trump warns North Korea against making 'overt' threats and says U.S. is ‘locked and loaded’
President Donald Trump have issued a new threat to North Korea on Friday, warns North Korea against making overt' threats on his vacationing at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf resort.
telling leader Kim Jong Un he "will truly regret it and he will regret it fast" if he issues an overt threat or attacks Guam or a US ally.
"This man will not get away with what he is doing," Trump told reporters. "If he utters one threat in the form of an overt threat ... or if he does anything with respect to Guam, or any place else that is an American territory or an America ally, he will truly regret it and he will regret it fast."
Trump who has also kept up war of words on Twitter handle shortly after the North Korean state news agency, KCNA, put out a statement blaming him for the escalated tensions.
“Trump is driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war, making such outcries as ‘the U.S. will not rule out a war against the DPRK,’” KCNA said.
Trump described American military readiness in stark terms.
“Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely.
“Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!,” he wrote on Twitter.
Trump maintained pressure on the North after a week of incendiary rhetoric including his warning on Tuesday that the U.S. would unleash “fire and fury” on Pyongyang if it threatened the U.S.
U.S. allies in the region reacted with alarm to the unusual response from Washington and senior U.S. officials scrambled to play down his comments. As Japan and south Korea on full preparations in intercept the anything threat.
Trump still amplified the warning on Thursday, saying “maybe his “fire and fury” threat wasn’t tough enough.”
But the James Mattis who is U.S. Defense Secretary later slowed Trump’s harsh words, saying “the U.S. still preferred a diplomatic approach to the North Korean threat.
“A war would be “catastrophic,” he said.
Asked if the U.S. was prepared to handle a hostile act by North Korea, Mattis said: “We are ready.”
telling leader Kim Jong Un he "will truly regret it and he will regret it fast" if he issues an overt threat or attacks Guam or a US ally.
"This man will not get away with what he is doing," Trump told reporters. "If he utters one threat in the form of an overt threat ... or if he does anything with respect to Guam, or any place else that is an American territory or an America ally, he will truly regret it and he will regret it fast."
Trump who has also kept up war of words on Twitter handle shortly after the North Korean state news agency, KCNA, put out a statement blaming him for the escalated tensions.
“Trump is driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war, making such outcries as ‘the U.S. will not rule out a war against the DPRK,’” KCNA said.
Trump described American military readiness in stark terms.
“Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely.
“Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!,” he wrote on Twitter.
Trump maintained pressure on the North after a week of incendiary rhetoric including his warning on Tuesday that the U.S. would unleash “fire and fury” on Pyongyang if it threatened the U.S.
U.S. allies in the region reacted with alarm to the unusual response from Washington and senior U.S. officials scrambled to play down his comments. As Japan and south Korea on full preparations in intercept the anything threat.
Trump still amplified the warning on Thursday, saying “maybe his “fire and fury” threat wasn’t tough enough.”
But the James Mattis who is U.S. Defense Secretary later slowed Trump’s harsh words, saying “the U.S. still preferred a diplomatic approach to the North Korean threat.
“A war would be “catastrophic,” he said.
Asked if the U.S. was prepared to handle a hostile act by North Korea, Mattis said: “We are ready.”
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