Jeffress told the Post “that gives the government the authority to do whatever, whether it’s assassination, capital punishment or evil punishment, to quell the actions of evildoers like Kim Jong Un“. Jeffress personally tweeted out the story from CBN News.
The senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas praised Trump for not tolerating North Korea’s threats and panned his predecessor’s handling of world affairs, saying former President Barack Obama had made “empty threats” and drawn “imaginary red lines” in dealing with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
MSNBC analyst Evelyn Farkas said “President Trump sounds more like a North Korean Leader, unfortunately, than an American leader” on Nicole Wallace’s show in response to Trump’s alarming words for Pyongyang on Tuesday.
“Both the USA and North Korea don’t show any signs of pulling back their stance and the possibility of taking action seems to increase step by step”, Tsutomu Soma, general manager of fixed-income department in Tokyo at SBI Securities Co., said in a phone interview. “They will be met with the fire and the fury like the world has never seen”.
North Korea has developed missiles of varying ranges and nuclear warheads to fit them, ensuring that the regime has the ability to deliver devastation to its neighbors and the US across the Pacific Ocean. “I used to have a huge file folder of all the insane, colorful things that the North Koreans would say and the names that they would call our American presidents”.
The U.N., in response to US pressure, has imposed new sanctions on North Korea. The U.S.is in talks with South Korea to improve their conventional missile forces, and the U.S. sent B-1B Lancers ripping past the Korean Peninsula Monday to remind Kim Jong Un that the U.S.is ready to “fight tonight”, according to the U.S. Pacific Air Forces.
Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” over that nation’s nuclear program, and Pyongyang said it was considering an attack on a USA military base in Guam.