N. Korea warns of nuclear war; Trump says U.S. is 'locked and loaded'
US threatens N. Korea with fire and fury if attacked BEDMINSTER, N.J./BEIJING, Reuters, Aug. 11, 2017 - U.S. President Donald Trump issued a new threat to North Korea on Friday, saying the U.S. military was 'locked and loaded' as Pyongyang accused him of driving the Korean Peninsula to the brink of nuclear war. A show of forc e Trump kept up the war of words on Twitter shortly after the North Korean state news agency, KCNA, put out a statement blaming him for the escalated tensions. 'Trump is driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war, making such outcries as 'the U.S. will not rule out a war against the DPRK,'' KCNA said. The U.S. president, who is vacationing at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf resort, described American military readiness in stark terms. 'Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, should North Korea act unwisely,' he wrote on Twitter. 'Hopefully Kim Jong Un will f...