After Trump Threat, North Korea Threatens To Strike Guam
The stakes have been raised.
North Korea on Tuesday raised tensions with an explicit threat on a U.S. territory.
North Korea said that it was “carefully examining” the possibility of launching a pre-emptive strike on the U.S. territory of Guam.
According to Reuters, a North Korean military spokesman said the country would strike the American territory should the United States provoke North Korea. North Korea’s state-run news agency, KCNA, published a statement from a spokesman for the Korean People’s Army who said a pre-emptive strike plan would be “put into practice in a multi-current and consecutive way any moment.”
The threat from North Korea came just hours after Donald Trump said further threats from the rogue regime would be “met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
Trump’s comments came after reports that the North Korean military is now able to produce miniaturized nuclear warheads that can be attached to ballistic missiles.
On Tuesday, Senator John McCain responded to Donald Trump’s escalation with sharp criticism. McCain said, “I take exception to the President’s comments because you gotta be able to do what you say you’re gonna do.”
“I don’t know what he’s saying and I’ve long ago given up trying to interpret what he says. That kind of rhetoric, I’m not sure how it helps,” McCain continued
“In other words, the old walk softly but carry a big stick, Teddy Roosevelt’s saying, which I think is something that should’ve applied because all it’s going to do is bring us closer to a serious confrontation. I think this is very, very, very serious…The great leaders I’ve seen don’t threaten unless they’re ready to act and I’m not sure President Trump is ready to act…It’s the classic Trump in that he overstates things.”
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