As President Trump and North Korea launch threats at one another, inching closer toward taking military options that could lead to a catastrophic war, an expert said there are few options to dissolve the crisis in the Korean Peninsula.
“We don’t have a lot of good options, I’m afraid to say,” former CIA analyst Sue Mi Terry told “Fox & Friends Sunday.”
North Korea’s foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, lambasted Trump on Saturday, calling him “a mentally deranged person full of megalomania” after the U.S. president mocked Kim Jong Un and threatened to “totally destroy North Korea” during his Tuesday address to the United Nations General Assembly. Terry said North Korea didn’t expect this level of rhetoric from the U.S.
“My only concern is, it’s going to escalate because North Koreans can’t back down either. Kim Jong Un has spent on completing his nuclear program. [North Korean officials] said they have to perfect their degree of arsenal to achieve their ultimate capability to attack mainland United States with intercontinental ballistic missiles. And now, they will have to react too,” Terry said. – READ MORE
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