Posted on 08/10/2017 12:24:22 PM PDT by Enlightened1
President Trump said Thursday his warning that the U.S. would meet North Korea with "fire and fury" may not have been tough enough.
"They've been doing this to our country for a long time, for many years, and it's about time someone stuck for the people of this country and for the people of other countries," he said in Bedminster, N.J., in response to criticisms of his comments this week, according to a pool report. "If anything, maybe that statement wasn't tough enough."
The president also urged the rogue regime to "get their act together," and said the U.S. military backed his statements "100 percent."
Trump issued a stern warning to North Korea on Tuesday, days after the U.N. Security Council voted to sanction Pyongyang.
"North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States," Trump said. "They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen."
Trump's comments appeared to be prompted by a statement issued to the state-run Korean Central News Agency, which said "packs of wolves are coming in attack to strangle a nation."
Congressional Democrats criticized Trump for his comments, but Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis came to the president's defense.
When asked about Trump's comments Wednesday, Heather Nauert, spokeswoman for the State Department, said the U.S. was speaking with "one voice" on North Korea. On Thursday, Nauert reiterated that U.S. policy toward North Korea hasn't changed after Trump's reiteration.
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I love the way he doubles down...makes the libs explode, the RINO’s are trying to hide, and Us Trump Supporters are loving him more and more everyday!!!
GO.PRESIDENT TRUMP.GO!!! MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
With included coupons for free What-a-Fish sanwiches if they depose fatboi!
Wolves don't strangle you ... they pull you down and eat you alive, along with everyone else there with you.
The Strategic Integrated Operational Plan was written during the Eisenhower administration with the help of the Rand Corporation, and said, in effect, that there would not be another Pearl Harbor. That we would shoot first.
IIRC, a few months ago he said he would be willing to sit down and talk with N. Korea - and the same people freaked about that. Am I misremembering?
If I point a gun at a police officer I’ll probably be shot dead.
It’s time for Kim to get a new hobby.
Kim needs to shut down the reactors, dismantle the missiles and warheads, call in international verifiers and pension off his missile and nuclear workers.
The North Korean military should give Kim until Monday North Korean time before taking direct action against Kim.
Kim won’t be the only one going to the Trump P239 barbeque.
Really? Hey, Kim, did you realize that the only reason that there are wolves in this country is because we made a conscious decision to NOT kill them all. Wolves, schmulves - we're not at all worried. You, OTOH, need to be worried - VERY worried - about the round-eyes with nukes. Just ask the Japs if you don't believe me.
The fact that our guys haven’t been recalled amid this rhetoric tells me a deal has been struck with those who could coup fatboi. Good, good.
We act like we are the only country that can build drone, cr@p any kid can do it.
We could probably shoot broasted chickens across the DMZ.
You know fellow Americans, it was the United States of America under the leadership of POTUS, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and POTUS, Harry Truman that gave freedom to China, Korea and Japan by winning the Second World War in 1945. China and Korea would be speaking Japanese today if not for the USA military. Japan in its defeat to the USA birthed a new nation of freedom for its people.
China.....do not forget the young American Volunteer Group (AVG)(The Flying Tigers)that fought and died for China in 1939-41(345 Japanese fighters & bombers downed). The blood of those young American, 17-25 year old pilots, mechanics and nurses lies engulfed forever in the earth of China. And, China do not forget the brave group of Jimmie Doolittle’s flyers who conducted the first Tokyo air raid from an American aircraft carrier in 1942 and those that gave their lives or were captured by the Japanese inside China.
China..it is time for payback. You need not hurt the Korean people north or south, You need not hurt Japan, you need not hurt the USA. Just destroy the leadership of North Korea just like the nutcase “Fat Boy” Korean maniac killed his own uncle and brother!!! Think seriously, it is to your advantage in the long term to do away with the tyrant of North Korea and his cohorts.
Ignore the little fat boy.
What is he going to do? Launch an attack against the United States????
I think even the tiny midgets he has as generals would stop him before he did that.
Trump needs to start laying this problem around Bill’s neck. He could have done something in about this but didn’t.
Kim's rhetoric alone would historically have been considered a casus belli. It must stop, and stop now. If there is to be any chance of a non-military solution that's an essential first step.
That was certainly the 1930s logic regarding Japan. Sorry, but when nuclear weapons are involved you don’t wait to “take the first punch”. That’s something all civilized countries understand. You do not make nuclear threats. That’s crossing a line that will not be tolerated.
diplomatically secure or not, they will leak minutes, if not moments after they are transmitted
He did in that conference. Said Bill Caved and he wasn’t easy on W or Obama.
Honestly I wouldn’t want to be fat boy or turtleneck right now. President Trump is outta bubblegum and there’s plenty of ass to kick.
Japan had an actual fighting force, and we had nothing compared to today
Japan and the powers that aligned with them were a real threat.
Fatboy Kim is an insect and could be crushed within 24 hours if we really wanted to.
And if he fired off a nuke... we’d really want to.
The Chinese are crapping their pants.
They fully understand the Doomsday Scenario, and that DJT will not let it happen. The cat’s out of the bag about the miniature devices and there is a crazy man with his hand on the switch.
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