Trump Threatens 'Fire And Fury Like The World Has Never Seen' Against North Korea
Update 2: The morning after Trump and North Korea's bickering over nuclear war, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson clarified the president's statements: "What the president is doing is sending a strong message to North Korea in language that Kim Jong Un can understand," Tillerson told the Associated Press. Seemingly contradicting the President, he says that tensions are not actually escalating, and that "Americans should sleep well at night."
Update: Hours after Trump's "fire and fury" threat to North Korea, the North Korean military says it's considering a "pre-emptive" strike on Guam, a US territory, if they perceive US provocation.
Previously: President Donald Trump issued heightened military threats against North Korea in light of a report that North Korea has created a miniature nuclear warhead.
The report comes soon after North Korea tested an ICBM that might be able to reach New York or Washington, DC. Just how worried should you actually be about North Korea's nuclear capabilities? Here's an overview.
Meanwhile, as the White House's rhetoric heats up, South Koreans are worried by what they're hearing:
As has long been true, the 10 million residents of greater Seoul are essentially human shields: any attack on Pyongyang by the US would be followed by a barrage of traditional artillery from the DMZ on the South Korean capital, and hundreds of thousands would be killed. But in recent months, the primary worry in South Korea has not been its bizarre and militaristic neighbor to the north; most Koreans are by now long used to living within close firing range of Pyongyang and do not think it will attack unless provoked. What really worries them is that the new US president doesn't know all this—and is too contemptuous of the State Department to be instructed.