Trump warns North Korea 'won't be around much longer' if threats continue to escalate
Source: ABC News
President Donald Trump continued to escalate threats to North Korea late Saturday as he responded to their foreign minister with a warning "they won't be around much longer" if the country continues provocation.
Trump took to Twitter just after 11 p.m. to respond to statements made earlier Saturday by North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, who said bombing the U.S. mainland was "inevitable."
Ri is currently in New York at the United Nations General Assembly and spoke on Saturday in a much-anticipated rebuttal to Trump's message delivered on Tuesday in which he said the U.S. would "totally destroy" North Korea if forced to defend itself or its allies.
"Due to his lacking of basic common knowledge and proper sentiment, he tried to insult the supreme dignity of my country by referring it to as a rocket," Ri said, referring to Trump's new penchant for referring to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as "Rocket Man." "By doing so, however, he committed an irreversible mistake of making our rockets' visit to the entire U.S. mainland inevitable all the more."
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/trump-warns-north-korea-wont-longer-threats-continue/story?id=50053390
Yup, I am sure this threat will cause North Korea to suddenly surrender its nuclear weapons.
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)that if he destroys North Korea, he'll destroy South Korea, too?
GP6971
(31,168 posts)It's all about him
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)onit2day
(1,201 posts)Only to Trump's ego. The rest of America needs to make this known by getting rid of this PINO. He does not represent America.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)Along with damage/fallout to southeastern Russia (Vladivostok area).
This has very little chance of ending well for most of the world if the Doh!-turd continues on this path.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)South Korea is attacked. That tech bubble we're seeing will be the first to go, along with the value of the dollar (China will see to that).
But, the main thing I don't want is another life lost on this planet to satisfy tRump's ego. Enough have already died in the Middle East and SW Asia under his watch.
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)After Oct 1st I will allow myself to be distracted by fat boys with big mouths and tiny junk.
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)What they are trying to do is pure evil.
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)japple
(9,833 posts)to be a matter of national security IMHO.
bucolic_frolic
(43,190 posts)Grab your iodine pills, and put the canned goods in the basement.
Man_Bear_Pig
(89 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)A big one, not the comparatively small one done to Baghdad.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)Zambero
(8,964 posts)Leave it to Donald Trump to threaten nuclear war as a way to shift attention away from the idiotic and ill-advised tweet storm he launched in the previous news cycle.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Seems about right.