A War Of Fiery Words, For Now, Between North Korea And The U.S.
NORTH KOREA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH the U.S. has always been rooted in bitter acrimony, with its periodic threats of annihilating America sounding almost quaint, coming, as they do, from an impoverished nation of 25 million. But never before has Pyongyang’s bluster been matched by a U.S. President’s. On Aug. 8, Donald Trump said the U.S. would unleash “fire and fury like the world has never seen” against the regime of Kim Jong Un after Pyongyang vowed to retaliate “thousands of times” against Washington for new U.N. sanctions.
Hours after Trump made his comments at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., North Korea said it was “examining” a strike on American forces on the Pacific island of Guam. Then a tweet was sent out by U.S. Pacific Air Forces showing a picture of two B-1 bombers flanked by two F-15 fighter jets with the message: “ready to #fighttonight.” Former acting CIA director Mike Morell called the situation the most serious one since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the closest the globe came to nuclear war.
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