
North Korea, Trump Continue Trading Tough Talk
“A load of nonsense.” That’s how Pyongyang characterized President Donald Trump’s belligerent rhetoric as it announced a plan to fire four Hwasong-12 missiles over Japan to within 25 miles of the U.S. territory of Guam. North Korean state television said the plan will be ready by mid-August, pending approval from Kim Jong Un, though Guam’s governor dismissed the unusually detailed attack description as showing North Korea’s “position of fear.” While top U.S. officials tried to soothe concerns of nuclear war, Trump suggested on Thursday his promise of “fire and fury” wasn’t “tough enough.”