Trump warns North Korea threats 'will be met with fire and fury'

CNBC ^ | 8-8-17 | Jacob Pramuk

[Red Badger]

President Donald Trump warns that threats from North Korea "will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen." North Korea has successfully created a miniaturized nuclear weapon that can fit in its missiles, according to NBC News and The Washington Post.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned North Korea about facing "fire and fury" if the isolated nation makes more threats to the United States.

"North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening ... and I said they will be met with fire, fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before," Trump told reporters during what he calls a "working vacation" at his New Jersey golf club.

His comments came hours after revelations Pyongyang has successfully created a miniaturized nuclear weapon designed to fit inside its missiles. While miniaturizing marks a major step in North Korea's nuclear ambitions, it does not necessarily mean the country has an accurate nuclear-equipped intercontinental ballistic missile, yet.

The development raises the stakes for Trump and other world leaders, who already faced difficult and limited options in dealing with North Korea's aggression. Trump has tried to leverage China, Pyongyang's only major ally, to get North Korea to change its behavior, but he has lamented a lack of success with Beijing.

The U.N. Security Council on Saturday unanimously put new sanctions on North Korea over its continued missile tests. The country has tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles that landed off the coast of Japan this year. Some analysis has said one of those missiles could potentially reach the mainland United States.

National security advisor H.R. McMaster recently said Trump is "not going to tolerate North Korea being able to threaten the United States."

Pyongyang has repeatedly vowed retribution against the U.S. following sanctions or other measures meant to deter its nuclear and missile programs.

After the U.N. imposed the newest sanctions, North Korea said it would bring "thousands-fold" revenge against the U.S.

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[M. Thatcher]

we don’t have the conventional forces in theatre to make an attack like “the world has never seen.”

Other than the US firepower ringing the place, the armada at sea and the forces based in Seoul and Japan. Tens of thousands of troops. Right now.

[Preston Manning]

This is what’s going on:

North Korea is experiencing a terrible famine. Conditions are far worse than anybody knows.

They need to provoke a war (one they intend to lose) as a nice patriotic way to thin their own herd (eliminating tens of millions of mouths to feed) while at the same time renewing their grip on power by reinforcing the narrative that the outside world, particularly the US, can’t be trusted.

[Reno89519]

Wonder how many MOAB we could deliver? Enough to neutralize embedded artillery on the border and every buried military, missile, and nuke site? Hit everything at once, remove North Korea’s military from the equation.

[luvbach1]

The president has obviously seen and approved of a war plan that calls for mutiple, simultaneous and overwhelming attacks on Nork targets, the object of which will be to bring them to their knees before they can lob a nuke or fully open up on South Korea. Shock and awe cubed.

[dfwgator]

IMHO President Trump us talking in a language that lil Kim can understand.




Good evening. Now, first of all, I'd like to thank the Iraqi government, for giving me this second opportunity to talk to the Iraqi people. You know, when I last spoke to you a few weeks back, apparently I failed to convey just how seriously the United States views the illegal seizure of Kuwait down there. My mistake, I believe, was in using the vague, euphemistic code words of international diplomacy. So, tonight I'm gonna speak to you in the kind of language that every Arab, every Iraqi, can understand.

You see, your leader - the godless liar, Saddam Hussein - is nothing more than a hyena in the skin of a lion. He thinks to frighten us, like sheep, with his loud braying - nah gah do it! America's no sheep waiting to be seized by a hyena! Rather, it's a great scorpion! Which deals a deadly sting to those who would crush it! Stinging! Stinging! Stinging!

[luvbach1]

I don’t thnk nukes will be used or needed.At least not initially by us.

[CodeToad]

“Liberal heads exploding all across the fruited plains.”

Well, scatter a bunch of liberals across the plains and you get ‘fruited plains’!

[Pinkbell]

You should read the Daily Mail. It’s a nuclear meltdown in the comments section.

“OMG! If only we had Obama there! Trump is a mad man who will kill us all. Reeeee!”

Who did they develop the weapons under, liberals? It wasn’t Trump.

[johnk]

I am a peace lover 99% percent of the time.

But this adolescent North Korean leader has pushed me to the point where I would like to mushroom the entire place.

He is a constant threatening voice in the world.

A dictatorial, murderous, Monster that needs a migraine “lead”ache direct from Uncle Sam.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Y'know, the Soviets had probably more nukes than the United States possessed, but they never threatened to SERIOUSLY use them against us. Or anyone else for that matter.

Neither did we, disregarding Reagan's microphone check about "we begin bombing in five minutes" gaffe.

Maybe it was because despite the differences, we were more civilized toward each other than we'd liked to have admitted. When you have means to wipe out hundreds of millions of people at the push of a button, there should be some wisdom and self-discipline that comes with acquiring that capability. A wise warrior knows how NOT to fight as much as he does how to fight.

North Korea's leadership has never acquired that wisdom. It didn't need to. Not when the machinations of the Clintons and Obama and their kind allowed them to acquire that power without having to EARN it on their own.

This is the geopolitical equivalent of giving keys of a brand new Porsche to a pimple-faced sixteen year-old whose been drinking beer. Trump's warning? Probably wouldn't have been needed... yes NEEDED... at all if American politicians this past quarter century hadn't caved to the Kims so often.

[KingofZion]

Should have nuked these turds 25 years ago. Failure by last 3 administrations has left USA in a more dangerous place now.

[WashingtonFire]

That smell on the air is of a Fat Boy in Pyongyang who has just filled his pants.

Good ! Strength is the only language these maniacs understand

[JamesP81]

He lives in New York. His house is at the top of the canned sunshine list if it drops into the crapper. I’d be a bit spooked too.

[Col Frank Slade]

Deliver all of them simultaneously.

Annihilation and decapitation of the NORK leadership structure.

[Afterguard]

This can be done without nuts. All it takes is US will to do so.

[johnk]

Another, thing, why is does this little midget always have everybody smiling in his propaganda photos.

He must think he is the messiah.

Good-bye smiling freak, get ready to meet your judgement from a Holy and Fearsome God.

May the oppressed people of North Korea enjoy freedom someday soon. First step is to get rid of the scum at top.

[Wayne07]

As abhorrent as Kim Jong-un and the NK leadership is, the country is basically a concentration camp of starving peasants. So it is worth having compassion for those miserable souls stuck in that country, and that will inevitably get caught up in whatever fighting happens.

[shanover]

Time to send the dragon!

[alloysteel]

Harry Truman, the only US President (or anybody) who ever dropped an atomic bomb in the heat of war, was confronted with the Korean crisis only a few years after the end of the Second World War. One of the best-regarded of the generals who led the US forces to its final victory was General Douglas MacArthur, a brilliant tactician and a sometimes ruthless field commander. It was MacArthur who conceived and carried out the landing at Inchon, and essentially cut the North Korean Army in two, opening a wedge that within a matter of a couple of months, carried the US and UN forces to within sight of the Chosin Reservoir on the Yalu River, which divided the Korean Peninsula from the Chinese mainland. Just beyond the Yalu, lay tens of thousands Chinese troops. MacArthur recognized the threat, and wanted to use atomic weaponry to halt the impending invasion by the Chinese.

The Chinese did enter the war, and drove the joint US and UN forces back to a point near the present Demilitarized Zone. The US Air Force offered to use conventional weapons to bomb North Korean targets, but MacArthur still felt that atomic weapons would carry a much stronger message.

This troubled Truman so much he finally fired MacArthur in April 1951, for even suggesting such a course of action. But the unease between the two men had been festering for some time, and Truman was personally offended by the very presence of MacArthur.

If MacArthur had carried the day, it is very likely that there would be no North Korean problem such as we face today.