North Korea: Trump says he is prepared to take ‘devastating’ military action to end tensions

‘Donald Trump has said that the US is ready with a “military option” to end the crisis with North Korea in the latest chapter of the escalating rhetoric between the two countries.
“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 Mariano Rajoy. “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 weekend that it was “inevitable” that North Korean rockets would hit the US mainland as part of its expanding nuclear ambitions – was acting “very badly, saying things that should never be said”. Mr Ri had also claimed 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.’
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