North Korea Mocks Trump’s ‘Nuclear Button’ Tweet as ‘Spasm of a Lunatic’

North Korea lashed out at President Donald Trump on Tuesday for a previous tweet mocking dictator Kim Jong Un’s “nuclear button”.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has repeatedly insisted that efforts to resolve the North Korea crisis should be diplomatically led, though he has said the Pentagon always plans for any contingency.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders sent out a tweet accusing the WSJ of “falsely quoting President Trump”.

Tensions have been high between the United States and North Korea after the North staged a flurry of nuclear and missile tests, and Kim Jong-un traded threats of war and personal attacks with Trump.

The White House released a portion of the audio from the interview that it said showed Trump said “I’d”. South Korean President dittoed Haley, indicating that improvements in ties must go hand in hand with steps towards denuclearisation of the North. “The Trump Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is about as bad as expected”.

“I don’t want to comment on it”. I’m not saying I have or haven’t.

The Wall Street Journal stands by its reporting, which was backed by a transcription of the interview, done by an outside service, the newspaper said.

North Korea is weak in winter sports, and two of its figure skaters, Ryom Tae Ok and Kim Ju Sik, earlier became the only North Korean athletes to qualify for the games before the North missed a confirmation deadline.

However, the scope of the talks remains circumscribed.

In a continuation of those conversations this week, the two countries agreed that the North would send a 140-member orchestra, according to the head of South Korea’s delegation Lee Woo-sung.

“It is unbearable to look at South Korea’s servile attitude of thanking Trump as if the results of inter-Korean talks happened due to their worldwide sanctions and pressures”, said the report.

Last month, the Star-Advertiser reported a missile launched from North Korea could strike Hawaii within 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, it will help global anxiety if Mr Trump dials back his war-like rhetoric against North Korea and countries he does not like.

September 25: “The whole world should clearly remember it was the USA who first declared war on our country”, said the North Korean foreign minister, Ri Yong-ho.

On November 28, the North Koreans test and intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach Washington, D.C. Trump responds by blaming the Chinese.

North Korea has been testing its nuclear missiles openly, launching them at will over Japan and aimed at the US. “I said ‘I’d have a good relationship with Kim Jong Un, ‘ a big difference”, Trump continued.

Hyon arrived at Panmunjeom in a navy blue suit with a badge featuring Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea, and Kim Jong-il, Kim’s father, on her chest.

“Ain’t nobody live good in North Korea”. Such measures would be an act of war. Such false alarms could easily lead to an accidental war, and with North Korea that would be one with nuclear dimensions. Shwartz said it’s important to remember the same could happen again.

China has previously agreed to USA demands for ever-tougher United Nations sanctions on North Korea in a bid to avert a disastrous war on the Korean Peninsula. Trump has not announced the winners of his awards yet, nor has the White House released any statement announcing when he would do so. -South Korea military drills planned for after the Olympics could see Pyongyang crank up its provocations once more.

We may be paying too much attention to North Korea.

After the end of the cold war and with the disintegration of erstwhile Soviet Union, the possibility of nuclear conflict breaking out in the world had considerably come down. The WSJ interview is just one example from last week.

Peters will join foreign ministers from 21 different countries at a Vancouver meeting, co-hosted by Canada and the United States, to discuss how North Korea’s nuclear aspirations can be thwarted. The danger is that what reportedly resulted from one person pushing a wrong button could, in an already extremely tense standoff, trigger a response by the USA military and the eruption of conflict.