Donald Trump vows to strike North Korea with power ‘the likes of which the world has never seen’ – after it’s revealed Kim has missile-ready nukes that can hit the US
Western powers now face real prospect of dealing with Kim Jong Un's fully-armed regime before he pushes the button
DONALD Trump has warned North Korea faces “fire and fury” if it threatens the US – as intelligence documents reveal Kim Jong-un has made mini nukes to attach to his new rockets.
Tensions have been rising in the region after the hermit kingdom’s latest missile test and a series of recent threats from the chubby dictator aimed at America and her allies.
But the US president fired back today, cautioning the North Koreans that they face a reckoning “the like the world has never seen” if they threaten the US with nukes.
Speaking to reporters at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump said: "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States.
"They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen."
The chilling warning comes after confidential US intelligence documents revealed the rogue state is now armed and ready to launch an attack on the West.
In excerpts seen by , the report says: "North Korea has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery".
Two intelligence officials contacted by the paper confirmed the "broad conclusions" made by the shock report, which was dated July 28.
Its findings risk sparking all-out war on the Korean peninsula as the pressure to crush Kim's despotic rule before he can push the button grows.
Just this weekend, H.R. McMaster, Donald Trump's national security adviser said that a nuclear-armed North Korea would be “intolerable, from the President’s perspective.”
Kim has been ratcheting up tensions to breaking point with dozens of rocket tests in recent months, including an intercontinental ballistic missile that appeared capable of reaching the US mainland.
A massive US armada has been deployed to the region, where it has remained on war-footing ready to launch strikes on Pyongyang.
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China has also agreed to step up pressure on its old comrades in the Kim regime.
On Sunday it backed UN Security Council sanctions banning imports of North Korean coal, iron, lead and other products.
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