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President Donald Trump's warning of "fire and fury" against North Korea if it threatens the United States were "strong," former Sen. Joe Lieberman said Wednesday, but he is concerned about Kim Jong-un developing the capability for a bioattack on the United States. "We've tried for years and years, really decades with diplomatic language and a lot else with the North Koreans and it hasn't worked," Lieberman, the co-chairman of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Biodefense, told CNN's "New Day" about Trump's tough talk.
North Korea's recent missile tests, and reports of its progress in nuclear warhead design have produced a volatile new urgency in U.S. policy. Threats of war are in the air.
President Donald Trump's "fire and fury" warnings to North Korea over its nuclear capabilities "initially was over the top," but it was effectively "tamped down" by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday, according to former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson. "The president has his own style," Richardson, also a former New Mexico governor, told Fox News' "America's Newsroom" anchor Bill Hemmer.
President Trump's fierce warning to North Korea was improvised in the moment, not part of a scripted statement that he prepared to deliver Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the remarks. Trump has long been bothered by North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un's threats against the United States and has privately vented about a powerful United States response to the rogue nation.
Warning of "fire and fury," President Donald Trump answered North Korea's threats with rhetoric the nuclear-armed nation might appreciate. The risk now is the tough talk leading to war.
Residents of the tiny Pacific island of Guam say they're afraid of being caught in the middle of escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea after Pyongyang announced it was examining plans for attacking the strategically important U.S. territory. Though local officials downplayed any threat, people who live and work on the island, which serves as a launching pad for the U.S. military, said Wednesday they could no longer shrug off the idea of being a potential target.
North Korea said on Wednesday it is considering plans for a missile strike on the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, just hours after President Donald Trump told the North that any threat to the United States would be met with "fire and fury". The sharp increase in tensions rattled financial markets and prompted warnings from U.S. officials and analysts not to engage in rhetorical slanging matches with North Korea.
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Amid sharply escalating tensions with North Korea, President Donald Trump on Tuesday promised "fire and fury like the world have never seen" if the country continues to threaten the United States. "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States," the president warned, responding to a reporter's question at his Bedminster Golf Club, where Trump has spent the last several days.
In this July 28, 2017, file photo distributed by the North Korean government, shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. North Korea was the main concern cited in the "white paper" approved by Japan's Cabinet on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2017, less than two weeks after the North test-fired its second ICBM.
This file photo distributed by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea's northwest, Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo.
Yeeeaaahhhh, the "Fox & Friends" retweet this morning that Tapper describes here was unfortunate, although not surprising. Trump's ethics are and have always been situational: What's good for Trump is good and what's bad for Trump is bad.
North Korea says it's "carefully examining" plans for launching a preemptive strike against Guam, hours after the Trump administration warned the rogue nation to drop its threats against the United States or face "fire and fury." North Korea said it's studying a plan to create an "enveloping fire" around the U.S. territory, home to Andersen Air Force Base.
Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are questioning its proposed route through Nebraska in hopes that state regulators will reject the project or impose restrictions. Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are questioning its proposed route through Nebraska in hopes that state regulators will reject the project or impose restrictions.
In July 2013, U.S. law-enforcement was tipped off about a North Korean vessel that was making its first visit to the Americas in four years. Authorities were told the Chong Chon Gang, which was supposed to be carrying sugar from Cuba to North Korea, was hiding drugs or weapons in its cargo.
U.S. intelligence officials have concluded North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead. The 'Hermit Kingdom' is officially a nuclear power.
Kim Jong Un, North Korea's supreme leader, may preside over the most propaganda-inundated, oppressed, and ruthless country on earth, but he's not crazy. In fact, under the Kim dynasty, North Korea has time and time again shown strategic thinking and cunning, essentially staying one step ahead of international efforts to curb the regime's power.
The strongest sanctions yet against North Korea could still prove no match for the communist country's relentless nuclear weapons ambitions. While the United States hails a new package of U.N. penalties that could cut a third of North Korea's exports, the sanctions themselves aren't the American objective.
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks while Japan's U.N. Ambassador Koro Bessho and South Korea's U.N. Ambassador Cho Tae-yul look on during a press encounter ahead of an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council at the United Nations in New York, U.S., May 16, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley revealed Monday that the U.S. had to twist China and Russia's arms to get them on board with the new sanctions on North Korea.
US President Donald Trump has signed what he called a "seriously flawed" bill imposing new sanctions on Russia, pressured by his Republican Party not to move on his own towards a warmer relationship with Moscow in light of Russian actions. The legislation is aimed at punishing Moscow for interfering in the 2016 US presidential election and for its military aggression in Ukraine and Syria, where the Kremlin has backed President Bashar Assad.