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The endless turnover at the White House and the constant tweeting by the US president has led to feelings that chaos in Washington is damaging the ability of the US to conduct foreign policy. Donald Trump Jr. watches his father Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump leave the stage on the night of the Iowa Caucus.
Faced with perhaps his gravest international crisis yet, President Donald Trump this week responded precisely as his some of supporters hoped and his critics long feared. The mix of plain-spoken bluster, spontaneity and norm-breaking risk that defined his political rise defined his approach to a round of fresh threats from nuclear North Korea.
As tensions reach a fever pitch between the US and North Korea , with Pyongyang announcing its intentions to fire missiles towards the US territory of Guam, the US Navy has continued to patrol and span the entire Pacific ocean with power and reach unparalleled on earth. Near Japan, within a short steam of Guam and the Korean Peninsula, sits the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier strike and the guided-missile destroyers and cruisers in its strike group.
U.S. and South Korean Catholic bishops have called for the U.S. and North Korea to deescalate the current threat of war between them. Bishop Oscar Cantu, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' international justice and peace committee, sent a letter to Secretary Rex Tillerson on Thursday urging Washington to avoid war and find a dialogue-based solution to the current tensions with Pyongyang, according to Newsweek .
Shortly after tweeting the US military was "locked and loaded" should North Korea "act unwisely," President Donald Trump returned to Twitter on Friday to emphasize his point by retweeting images of US B-1 bombers currently stationed in Guam. Featuring a series of photos depicting B-1B Lancers deployed to the US territory, the tweet from US Pacific Command said: "B-1B Lancer #bombers on Guam stand ready to fulfill USFK's #FightTonight mission if called upon to do so."
Economic news for the US has been encouraging in recent days, but rising tensions between the United States and North Korea have refocused the crowd's attention on the potential for war. Predictably, President Trump's blunt warning on Tuesday that North Korea faced "fire and fury" if it continued to threaten the US revived the appetite for safe havens, including Treasuries.
Anti-Trump Rep. Maxine Waters told TMZ outside an upscale restaurant Wednesday evening that the Trump administration must tone down its rhetoric towards the North Koreans. Waters urged Sec. of State Tillerson to consider 'things they're asking for.'
President Trump's "fire and fury" shot Wednesday at North Korea has Republicans nationwide wondering whether his campaign promise of "America First" is finished. "Yes, it is," said former Texas Republican Chairman Tom Pauken, an early Trump supporter.
In this March 7, 2003 file photo, a B-1B Lancer bomber, left, taxies past a B-52 shortly after landing at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. The small U.S. territory of Guam has become a focal point after North Korea's army threatened to use ballistic missiles to create an "enveloping fire" around the island.
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U.S. Air Force A-10 attack aircraft wait to take off on the runway at the Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017. North Korea on Wednesday officially dismissed President Donald Trump's threats of "fire and fury," declaring the American leader "bereft of reason" and warning ominously, "Only absolute force can work on him."
The tiny U.S. territory of Guam feels a strong sense of patriotism and confidence in the American military, which has an enormous presence on the Pacific island. But residents are increasingly worried over Washington's escalating war of words with North Korea.
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.
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.
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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.
U.S. intelligence officials have concluded North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead. The 'Hermit Kingdom' is officially a nuclear 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.