Guamanian Devil

“President Trump seemed to draw a red line Tuesday when he warned North Korea that continued threats against the United States would be met with ‘fire and fury like the world has never seen.’ The next day, North Korea crossed it.” As the world’s tension level increases, North Korea gets more specific about what it could do to Guam.

+ Meanwhile, Trump wondered aloud whether his fire and fury comments might not have been tough enough: “North Korea better get their act together or they are going to be in trouble like few nations have ever been in trouble … Things will happen to them like they never thought possible, OK?”

+ NYT: Deep divisions emerge in Trump administration as North Korea threatens war. (It wasn’t very long ago that you’d have assumed a headline like that came from The Onion.)