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| Donald Trump says that the US is ready with a "military option" to end the escalating crisis with North Korea that would be devastating for Pyongyang. | Donald Trump says that the US is ready with a "military option" to end the escalating crisis with North Korea that would be devastating for Pyongyang. |
| "We are totally prepared for the second option, not a preferred option," Mr Trump said at a White House news conference alongside Spain's prime minister. "But if we take that option, it will be devastating, I can tell you that, devastating for North Korea. That's called the military option. If we have to take it, we will." | "We are totally prepared for the second option, not a preferred option," Mr Trump said at a White House news conference alongside Spain's prime minister. "But if we take that option, it will be devastating, I can tell you that, devastating for North Korea. That's called the military option. If we have to take it, we will." |
| The President proceeded to say that North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho - who said over the week end that it was "inevitable" that North Korean rockets would hit the US mainland - was acting "very badly, saying things that should never be said." In addition to musing on the likelihood of a North Korean missile strike on US soil, Mr Ri also claimed recently that Mr Trump had issued a declaration of war in tweeting that North Korean leaders "won't be around much longer" if they keep on threatening the US. | |
| "The whole word should clearly remember it was the US who first declared war on our country," Mr Ri told reporters in New York, responding to the tweet. | |
| Mr Trump's threats Tuesday are just the latest in a series of insults hurled between him and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. After a particularly feisty speech during the Presidents first address to the United Nations General Assembly last week in which he called Mr Kim "Rocket Man", and said that he was on a "suicide mission". Mr Kim followed up by calling Mr Trump a "dotard" - a phrase used to describe an elderly, senile person - and a "frightened dog". | |
| "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire," Mr Kim said in an unprecedented statement addressing a foreign leader. | |
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