‘Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!’ the president tweets.
President Donald Trump on Friday warned that U.S. plans for military action against North Korea are “locked and loaded,” urging North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to “find another path” amid escalating tensions on both sides of the Pacific.
“Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!” the president wrote on Twitter Friday morning. Later, he retweeted a post from U.S. Pacific Command that featured images of U.S. military aircraft and a message that “#USAF B-1B Lancer #bombers on Guam stand ready to fulfill USFK’s #FightTonight mission if called upon to do so.” USAF is an abbreviation for the U.S. Air Force and USFK stands for U.S. Forces Korea.
Trump’s threats against North Korea have escalated this week, with the president warning on Tuesday that the Kim regime would face “fire and fury like the world has never seen” if it continues its threatening behavior toward the U.S. Trump doubled down on that rhetoric Thursday, telling reporters that perhaps his “fire and fury” threat “wasn’t tough enough.”
He also declined to rule out a preemptive strike against the regime.
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The hot rhetoric dragged down financial markets this week, stripping more than $1 trillion from stock markets worldwide as investors shifted funds into traditionally safer bets like the Japanese yen, Swiss franc, and U.S. and German bonds and gold, all of which climbed higher this week. The slide in the markets is a blow for the Trump administration, which has prided itself on the climb in U.S. stock prices since the inauguration.
China, responsible for the majority of North Korea’s international trade and its chief patron on the world stage, has waded into the middle of the cross-Pacific threats, warning both the U.S. and the Kim regime against taking military action. In an editorial published Friday in a state-run newspaper, the contents of which were reported by The Washington Post, the Chinese Global Times newspaper said China won’t assist North Korea if it launches a preemptive strike against the U.S.
“China should also make clear that if North Korea launches missiles that threaten U.S. soil first and the U.S. retaliates, China will stay neutral,” the editorial read. “If the U.S. and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so.”
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Trump: Military plans are 'locked and loaded' on North Korea https://t.co/r2A9sRFZHa pic.twitter.com/uNcZH2pILf
— POLITICO (@politico) August 11, 2017
I lost more than a few thousand in one day in my already meager retirement fund. Thanks Donald for your irresponsible lip flapping once again. But then you don’t have to worry about retirement money right?
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