North Korea said Saturday that almost 3.5 million youths and retired soldiers have filed a request to enlist or reenlist in the military to retaliate against the United States over the latest economic sanctions adopted by the U.N. Security Council. Trump has repeatedly stated that the White House has run out of patience with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Pyongyang has laid out plans to strike near the US territory of Guam. President Trump confirmed Friday morning tweeting; "Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely".
Trump also made a slight reference to Kim Jong-un, when he said: "You notice that he hasn't spoken recently. My concern is that we might go from a pre-crisis situation to a true Cold War-Cuban Missile crisis situation, which we are not in now, by any spark that is thrown into the tinder box".
Asian stocks bounced back on Monday after three losing sessions, but gains were capped by worries about escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula that sent investors fleeing from riskier assets last week.
Neither President Bush nor President Obama could keep North Korea from improving its warheads and its missiles, while allowing its people to starve. But it wasn't known until now that the contacts have continued, or that they have broached matters other than USA detainees.
After speaking with the US President, Mr Abe said: "Through a firm partnership between Japan and the US and cooperating with China, Russia and the worldwide community we agreed that our priority was to work to ensure that North Korea doesn't launch more missiles". "They expand the envelope", he said.
He said: "As a soldier, I stand with the Venezuelan armed forces, and with the people. i am sure that we will all be on the front lines of defending the interests and sovereignty of this beloved Venezuela".
"But as it plays more tricks, it will feel the pressure of self-destruction", North Korea stated.
Kim Dong-yub, a professor and a military expert at Kyungnam University's Institute of Far Eastern Studies in Seoul urged caution in assuming North Korea was bluffing with its missile threats.
While Washington's next steps are not clear, it looks increasingly likely that the two-decade USA policy of "strategic patience" towards Pyongyang may now be over.
Trump's words were no doubt perceived by Kim as a warning of a likely pre-emptive attack on North Korea, which led to his unsafe riposte on Guam.
Local residents chants slogans during a peace rally at Chief Quipuha Park, on the island of Guam, a U.S. Pacific Territory, August 14, 2017. Any order by the president could be executed quickly.
The North's leader ordered the army should always be fire-ready should he make a decision for action, the report said. This could shift US attention further from the wider regional agenda, including South China Sea tensions, which remains crucial to Washington's Southeast Asia friends. -South Korea drills begin.
This year's UFG exercises are expected to last around 10 days. Is it any wonder that North Korea adopts a truculent posture as the world's pariah and now celebrates its entry into the nuclear community?
Russia, he said, was "very worried" by "talk of the need to carry out a preemptive strike at North Korea" and "Pyongyang's talk of the need to strike at Guam island".
At the same time, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson missed a significant opportunity to listen to North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho's remarks at the ASEAN Regional Forum and to approach him diplomatically.
