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Donald Trump issued the strongest threat yet against North Korea. They called his bluff.
A day after Trump’s “fire and fury” comment,we know the consequence of heated rhetoric toward North Korea — a planned missile strike.
North Korea called Trump’s bluff on Wednesday and said it will launch missiles into the ocean near Guam, an American territory in the south Pacific that houses thousands of U.
S. military personnel.
More than 160000 people live on the island that is south of Japan and east of the Philippines.
North Korea says it will fire four missiles into the ocean near Guam by mid-August. The missiles would fly over Japan a major provocation on its own — and demonstrate North Korea’s ability to land nuclear missiles in South Korea, and Japan or U.
S. territories. Read more (8/10/17)
Update: Trump doubles down on tough rhetoric against North KoreaTrump ratcheted up his tough talk against North Korea on Thursday,telling reporters that his “fire and fury” comments on Tuesday were possibly “not tough enough.When the press, gathered at the president’s Bedminster, and N.
J.,golf resort asked Trump to clarify the threats he made against North Korea, Trump said he could hold gone even further.“I think that’s the first time [North Korea] heard it like they heard it, or ” he said. “And frankly,the people that were questioning that statement, was it too tough, or possibly it wasn’t tough enough.” Read more (8/10/17 4 PM)
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