President Trump today told reporters that North Korea will be met with “fire and fury” if it keeps making threats against the U.S. Democratic Senator Al Franken says the president’s response may be an “overreaction” and says “we can’t acquiesce here and accept that they’re going to be a nuclear power, but on the other hand, I don’t think that we can use force against them because they basically hold 20 million people in South Korea, including troops of ours, hostage with non-nuclear artillery.” Franken adds…
Trump was responding earlier today to questions about North Korea miniaturizing a nuclear warhead. Trump says the U-S response to threats from the North would be like nothing the world has ever seen.