President Donald Trump on Sunday condemned North Korea for conducting what the nation’s state-run media claimed was the loading of a hydrogen bomb into a new intercontinental ballistic missile.
“North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test,” Trump tweeted.
He called North Korea “a rogue nation” and “very hostile and dangerous to the United States.”
“They only understand one thing!” the President tweeted.
North Korea has conducted a major Nuclear Test. Their words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017
..North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017
South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017
Trump’s remarks were a return to the harsh rhetoric he employed in August following reports that North Korea had produced a nuclear warhead small enough to fit on an intercontinental ballistic missile, when the President pledged any further threats would be “met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
After North Korea fired a missile over Japan last week, Trump issued a statement declaring that “all options are on the table.”
He later complained on Twitter about negotiations with North Korea and declared, “Talking is not the answer!”
North Korea is a rogue nation. That is true. It has been conducting nuclear tests and just conducted another one. That is also true. And if you get it through your thick skull we have no good options on this, Mr. President, we’ll make you a one-day provisional member of the junior varsity Masters of the Bleedin’ Obvious.
So long, mom.
I’m off to drop the bomb.
So don’t wait up for me.
I’ll look for you when the war is over.
An hour and a half from now.
I just have this image of the US striking against NK nuclear facilities, and NK launching its devastating assault on both SK and a few ICBMs against US cities (NY, Washington, LA?). So the US carpet bombs NK with nukes. Do Russia and China respond with a full scale assault on the US? Do France and Britain, keeping their Article 5 obligations under NATO, retaliate with what they’ve got against Russia and China? Will the world as we know it still be here in an hour and a half?
Hell, I should just stop worrying and learn to love the bomb.
Trump’s criticism of South Korea’s stance towards North Korea via Twitter is really, really stupid and counter-productive.
I guess ive been lulled into a sense of complacency with Hair Furor. Virtually nothing he has said or threatened has come to pass. 6 months ago I would’ve been nauseous.