A war of fiery words, for now, between North Korea and the U.S.
by Charlie Campbell/Beijing
Aug 12, 2017
3 minutes
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NORTH KOREA’S RELATIONSHIP WITH the U.S. has always been rooted in bitter acrimony, with its periodic threats of annihilating America sounding almost quaint, coming, as they do, from an impoverished nation of 25 million. But never before has Pyongyang’s bluster been matched by a U.S. President’s. On Aug. 8, Donald Trump said the U.S. would unleash “fire and fury like the world has never seen” against the regime of Kim Jong
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