Trump said on potentially attacking North Korea over its nuclear test ‘W...

Sep 3, 2017
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Trump said on potentially attacking North Korea over its nuclear test ‘We’ll see’

President Trump signaled Sunday that he was not ruling out a retaliatory strike against North Korea in response to its overnight nuclear test, while Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warned the isolated country that any threat to the United States or its allies would be met with “a massive military response.”

Trump called North Korea’s nuclear test, its biggest to date, “very hostile and dangerous to the United States” and said his administration was considering sweeping new economic sanctions to pressure China and every other country that trades with North Korea.

Asked as he left church services whether he was planning to attack North Korea after a nuclear test that defied his previous blunt warnings, Trump told reporters, “We’ll see.”

Trump convened a White House meeting Sunday afternoon of military leaders, his national security team and Vice President Pence, where Mattis said they reviewed each of the United States’ military options in the Asia-Pacific.

Trump’s response to North Korea’s announcement that it had detonated a hydrogen bomb that could be attached to a missile capable of reaching the mainland United States an admonishment of South Korea for its handling of the crisis.

Following Trump’s Twitter scolding of South Korea, a longtime U.S. ally, Mattis said after the White House meeting that “the commitments among the allies are ironclad,” referencing the Japan, South Korea and the United States.