Pyongyang threatened to fire missiles near Guam, while the US president promised the North Korean regime "fire and fury."
The studious vacation that Donald Trump planned to spend partly at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, took an unexpected turn on Tuesday, August 8th. The US president wanted to devote his afternoon to the ravages caused by the surge of opiate addictions, but a virulent response to a question asked about North Korea overshadowed this issue.
While Pyongyang reacted to the adoption of new international sanctions by the United Nations, under the impetus of the United States, on August 5, promising to charge "a thousand times" to the United States "the price of their Crimes, " Mr. Trump responded in the same tone. " North Korea would do better not to threaten the United States anymore. They will face a fire and a rage that the world has never seen before , "the president assured in a clearly improvised answer.
Later in the day, this rhetorical escalation continued with the announcement that the North Korean regime is planning to fire ballistic missiles at intermediate range to the US bases on Guam Island in the Pacific. The official KCNA news agency has assured that this project will be finalized "and put into practice consecutively and simultaneously, as soon as Kim Jong-un, the supreme commander of the nuclear force, decides it" .
Reassessment of nuclear capabilities
On Tuesday morning, The Washington Post and the Japanese Ministry of Defense had cast a shadow over Washington's satisfaction after unanimity in favor of sanctions at the United Nations, citing a reassessment of North Korean nuclear capabilities.
According to a hypothesis advanced late July by the Defense Intelligence Agency, American military intelligence, the regime of Kim Jong-un would have managed to reduce the size of its nuclear warheads to equip its ...