President Donald Trump, in an interview has said that he is sending an ‘armada’ warship, towards the Korean peninsula as tensions in the region grow significantly.
North Korea’s parliament convened as the US and South Korea conducted their biggest ever military exercises with USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier heading to the area.
North Korea vowed a tough response to any military moves that might follow the U.S. decision to send the carrier and its battle group to waters off the Korean Peninsula.
‘We will hold the U.S. wholly accountable for the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by its outrageous actions,’ a spokesman for its Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
The statement followed an assertion by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that U.S. missile strikes against a Syrian air base in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack carry a message for any nation operating outside of international norms. He didn’t specify North Korea, but the context was clear enough.
Donald Trump was asked if he thought Kim was mentally fit to lead his country. He replied: ‘I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know him, but he’s doing the wrong thing.’
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