North Korea

The New York Daily News reports: Trump’s Deputy Assistant Sebastian Gorka continued the administration’s tradition of Holocaust talk Thursday while apparently pushing for Trump to take action against Kim Jong Un’s rogue nuclear state. Gorka — who has family ties to a Nazi-affiliated Hungarian nationalist group — gave an interview to BBC’s Radio 4 in which he recalled a conversation …

At least with Rasmussen: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-four percent (54%) disapprove. The president has been rebounding this week from his low-to-date approval rating early last week of 38%. The latest figures include 27% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is …

The Hill reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday said President Trump doesn’t need congressional approval for a military strike against North Korea, but he urged his colleagues to give it “as a last resort.” “It would be very smart if the Congress could come together and tell the president ‘you have our authorization to use military force … as …

Reuters reports: North Korea will develop a plan by mid-August to launch four intermediate range missiles at the U.S. territory of Guam before presenting it to leader Kim Jong Un who will make a decision on whether to proceed, the North’s state media said on Thursday. “The Hwasong-12 rockets to be launched by the KPA (Korean People’s Army) will cross …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump was speaking in his own words when he vowed to retaliate against North Korean aggression with “fire and fury,” but top advisers were aware of the tone he planned to strike, a White House spokeswoman said Wednesday, as the administration sought to provide clarity on its strategy on the Korean Peninsula. “The words …

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USA Today reports: State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert will hold a briefing Wednesday on the heels of tense exchanges between the U.S. and North Korea. A day earlier, President Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury” in response to reports of a new milestone in the country’s nuclear quest. South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported that North Korea’s military …

The Independent reports: US Secretary of Defence James Mattis has warned North Korea to “cease any consideration of actions that will lead to the end of the regime and destruction of its people”. Mr Mattis issued the stern warning one day after the Washington Post reported that North Korea had developed miniaturised nuclear warheads that could be capable of striking …

The Dallas Morning News reports: Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, one of President Donald Trump’s evangelical advisers who preached the morning of his inauguration, has released a statement saying the president has the moral authority to take out North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “When it comes to how we should deal with evil doers, the Bible, in the book …

From the right wing Washington Free Beacon: Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump, said Wednesday America is no longer just a world superpower, but is now a “hyper power.” Co-host of “Fox & Friends” Steve Doocy read two tweets that had just moments ago been posted by Trump to his personal Twitter account. “All right, so what’s he …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump is not backing down from his nuclear rhetoric. On Wednesday the President of the United States tweeted a pointed warning to North Korea, saying that the U.S. nuclear arsenal had been overhauled under his watched and that U.S. capabilities were “far stronger and more powerful than ever before.” The tweets are a remarkable doubling down of …

CNBC reports: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he doesn’t believe there is “any imminent threat” from North Korea, including to the U.S. territory of Guam. Tillerson says that “Americans should sleep well at night.” He says that they should “have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days.” Tillerson spoke to reporters Wednesday after President Donald …

Reuters reports: North Korea said on Wednesday it is “carefully examining” a plan to strike the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam with missiles, just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump told the North that any threat to the United States would be met with “fire and fury”. A spokesman for the Korean People’s Army, in a statement carried by the …

Phoenix’s KTAR reports: U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday that President Donald Trump must tread cautiously when issuing threats to North Korea if he is unprepared to act. “I take exception to the president’s comments because you got to be sure you can do what you say you’re going to do,” he told KTAR News. Earlier Tuesday, Trump said …

Do you feel reassured? CBS News reports: President Trump addressed the ongoing crisis between the U.S. and North Korea at a briefing on opioids in New Jersey on Tuesday, issuing a stern warning to the regime for its continued provocations. “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” warned Mr. Trump from his golf club in …

The Washington Post reports: North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment. The new analysis completed last month by the Defense Intelligence Agency comes on the heels of another intelligence assessment …

NBC News reports: The U.S. military successfully test-launched an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile from California early Wednesday, according to an Air Force spokesman — just days after North Korea’s second test of an ICBM. The unarmed Minuteman III missile was launched at 2:10 a.m. PT from Vandenberg Air Force Base, about 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles. An Air Force statement …

The Associated Press reports: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Saturday the second flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile demonstrated his country can hit the U.S. mainland, hours after the launch left analysts concluding that a wide swath of the United States, including Los Angeles and Chicago, is now in range of North Korean weapons. The Korean Central …

Hawaii News Now reports: The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency is kicking off an educational campaign aimed at helping residents and visitors figure out what to do if the state is the target of a nuclear missile attack from North Korea. The agency said the threat to the islands from the rogue nation is “currently assessed to be low.” But officials …

Mediaite reports: Appearing on Fox News’ Outnumbered this afternoon, [host Trish] Regan noted that she hopes that America doesn’t have to get itself involved in military action against North Korea in response to the country’s aggression. Instead, she suggested that perhaps we should just send in some assassins to take out North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. “There’s one other option …