U.S
President Donald Trump has issued a 'new red line' concerning the ongoing war
rhetoric between the White House and Pyongyang, saying North Korea's supreme
leader Kim Jong-Un will not get away with his threats towards the United States
and that if he makes one more threat towards the United States, Guam or allies
of the United States, he'll regret it fast.
The warning
came a few hours after an early morning tweet from the U.S president saying US
military options were “locked and loaded” for use if Pyongyang “acted
unwisely”- further creating more tensions among citizens within the Korean
peninsula.
North Korean warned it will launch four
missiles at the waters around US Pacific territory of Guam if Trump continues
to threaten the safety of the North Korean government to which Trump responded
by saying the U.S will respond with 'fear and fury'.
Trump stood
by his words when asked about them at his golf resort in New Jersey on Friday
evening.
“I hope they
are going to fully understand the gravity of what I said, and what I said is
what I mean,” Trump said. “Those words are very, very easy to understand.”
“If somebody
else uttered the exact same words that I uttered, they’d say: ‘What a great
statement, what a wonderful statement,’” Trump said. “But I will tell you, we
have tens of millions of people in this country that are so happy with what I
am saying, because they say, ‘Finally, we have a president that’s sticking up
for our nation and frankly, sticking up for our friends and our allies.’”
He then
issued an ultimatum to Kim Jong-un himself. “This man will not get away with
what he’s doing,” he said. “If he utters one threat in form of overt threat –
which, by the way, he’s been uttering for years – or if he does anything in
respect to Guam or anyplace else that’s an American territory or an American
ally, he will truly regret it.”
“We want to
talk about a country that has misbehaved for many many years – decades,
actually – through numerous administrations, and they didn’t want to take on the
issue and I had no choice but to take it on, and I’m taking it on. And we’ll
either be very, very successful quickly or we’re going to be very, very
successful in a different way, quickly.”
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