President Donald Trump has received some criticism regarding his “fire and fury” threat toward North Korea this week as the possibility of war moves closer and the POTUS commented on this criticism by saying that his statement was “maybe not tough enough”.
THIS! This is why we elected him!
As reported by RealClearPolitics.com:
Speaking to reporters outside his New Jersey golf club Thursday, and again after concluding a national security briefing, the president said the United States was willing to “consider negotiations” with North Korea, but was fed up with Pyongyang’s behavior and ready to defend the United States and its allies in the Korean Peninsula.
“The people of our country are safe. Our allies are safe. And I will tell you this: North Korea better get their act together, or they’re going to be in trouble like few nations ever have been in trouble in this world, OK?” the president said in a continuing volley of boasts and colloquial shorthand.
Trump declined to be more specific about any potential use of force or reliance on alternatives to military action, but said he continued to believe China could intervene with Pyongyang. “I think China can do a lot more,” he said.
Trump assailed Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama for spending the better part of nearly three decades in hands-on and hands-off efforts to try to halt or slow Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions. His administration’s approach, he said, was to confront the results: North Korea has reportedly produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that could fit atop a missile, and it has threatened the United States and its neighbors with destruction while conducting missile tests.
“Let’s see what he does with Guam,” the president continued, referring to 33-year-old dictator Kim Jong Un. “He does something in Guam, it will be an event the likes of which nobody’s seen before, [is] what will happen in North Korea.”Experts have underscored the president’s dilemma in vowing to protect the U.S. territory in the Western Pacific, which is home to 163,000 people: Would the United States preemptively strike North Korea to deter an attack? If the United States waits to deploy anti-missile defenses to destroy North Korean missiles, how will the Pentagon know whether nuclear warheads are deployed, and what are the odds of miscalculations? And what kind of collateral damage would the United States or its allies sustain in any such scenario?