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N. Korea warns of nuclear war; Trump says U.S. is ‘locked and loaded’

BEDMINSTER, N.J./BEIJING, Reuters, Aug. 11, 2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump issued a new threat to North Korea on Friday, saying the U.S. military was “locked and loaded” as Pyongyang accused him of driving the Korean Peninsula to the brink of nuclear war.

 

  A show of force

 A show of force

 

Trump kept up the war of words on Twitter 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.
The U.S. president, who is vacationing at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf resort, described American military readiness in stark terms.
“Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely,” he wrote on Twitter. “Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!”

 

 

North Korea warns of nuclear war 

 North Korea warns of nuclear war

 

Trump maintained pressure on the North after a week of incendiary rhetoric including his warning on Tuesday that the United States would unleash “fire and fury” on Pyongyang if it threatened the United States.
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.
Still, Trump amplified the warning on Thursday, saying maybe his “fire and fury” threat “wasn’t tough enough.” U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis later tempered Trump’s harsh words, saying the United States still preferred a diplomatic approach to the North Korean threat. A war would be “catastrophic,” he said.
Asked if the United States was prepared to handle a hostile act by North Korea, Mattis said: “We are ready.”

 

 The threat of a nuclear war looms

 The threat of a nuclear war looms

 

 

As of late Thursday, two U.S. officials said the threat with regards to North Korea had not changed, additional assets were not being moved into the region and intelligence did not show indications of North Korea preparing a missile launch.

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