*****BREAKING***** North Korea threatens preemptive strike on Guam

[DemocratSinceBirth]

PER CNN

[SummerSnow]

1. OMFG I have a cousin that lives there!!!!!!!!!!!

[gratuitous]

2. What's President Trump going to do about it?

He promised fire and fury if North Korea made any more threats. Well, there it is. Does Trump start World War III over a dictator's words, or does he back down and crank American credibility down to -1?

Well played, Mr. President. Go read another folder full of laudatory clippings and screen shots. You've earned it.

[hlthe2b]

3. What was it all the pundits said about the admin never experiencing an emergency...

not of their own making?

Well, in fact, this is of Trump's own making. The only satisfaction I can have is knowing his precious golf time is now being disrupted.

May he rot in hell (and not take us all with him)

[madaboutharry]

4. Where are the diplomats?

This is what happens when career diplomats and foreign policy experts, people with decades of experience, are pushed to the side.

[Freethinker65]

5. Ok fucking GOP. Time to put an adult in charge.

Trump backed himself into a fucking corner. If he moves the goalposts he will be severely ridiculed. He will try to say he was "only kidding" and "not really serious", but the presidency is not some joke. Time to tell him to take a real vacation off the grid while you work together with Democrats who know how to fix things diplomatically.

[lpbk2713]

6. I wish our country had some leadership.

Instead we have the Keystone Kops on drugs.

[First Speaker]

10. I like Charles Pierce's description of the "administration"...

...it's as if Quentin Tarantino remade Duck Soup...

[OnDoutside]

7. Guam goes....Gulp !

[B2G]

8. Nothing is going to happen to Guam

NK knows of they do that, it would ensure their destruction. Kim may be nuts, but he's not that stupid.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. Don't count on it... or the stupidity of the Fuhrer-in-Chief.

[B2G]

11. NK will not ensure their complete destruction

On Guam. Hawaii or the west coast is more likely if he wants to go out in a blaze of "glory".

And Trump won't launch a preemptive nuclear attack. If NK hits US soil though, he will.

[drray23]

12. the issue is trump.

NK may miscalculate and push Trump too far. Thats the real danger. I dont think Kim would launch since he would lose his country. For decades they have been used to make over the top declarations knowing it makes them look tough domestically and that no sane US president would attack them.
Unfortunately for them and us Trump is not sane.

[Not Ruth]

13. Weird how he is not threatening South Korea or the US troops in the DMZ

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. Good point.

Maybe because they are gradually escalating the tension instead of shooting their entire, errrrr, bolt all at once.

[left-of-center2012]

15. Trump: Why would N.K. nuke gum?

"I don't chew gum."

[MineralMan]

16. Trump Tweets Back:

"Don't you dare!"