Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop called the message "unprecedented," noting that North Korea usually chooses different means to communicate. The United States denied that Trump had declared war on North Korea, which is also known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. "It's North Korea that is threatening to fire nuclear missiles at Japan and South Korea and the United States. Recent UN sanctions have targeted everything from seafood exports, foreign labor and joint ventures with North Korea. North Korea has continually assailed Australia as a "vassal country" of the United States in recent releases from North Korean state media.

Source: CNN October 20, 2017 08:15 UTC