US President Donald Trump has warned North Korea “will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen” if it continues to threaten the United States.
Key points:
- Mr Trump made comments a day after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson left door open for dialogue
- President’s press briefing was supposed to be about opioid addiction
- Washington Post says Pyongyang has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery
Mr Trump’s comments, delivered to reporters at his New Jersey golf course, came after Japan said it believed North Korea could have developed the technology to miniaturise nuclear warheads — which would enable them to be put on an inter-continental ballistic missile.
“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,” Mr Trump said during a briefing which was supposed to be about the problem of opioid addiction in the US.
But within hours of Mr Trump’s threat North Korea’s military said it was “carefully examining” a plan to strike the US Pacific territory of Guam with missiles.
A spokesman for the Korean People’s Army, in a statement carried by the North’s state-run KCNA news agency, said the strike plan would be “put into practice in a multi-current and consecutive way any moment” once leader Kim Jong-un made a decision.
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