Sanctions and "other" pressures are beginning to have a big impact on North Korea. Other US presidents have privately considered the use of nuclear weapons since Harry Truman unleashed the horrific wrath of atomic warfare on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II in 1945. Ratcheting up fearsJUST WATCHED Haley: US won't accept a nuclear North Korea Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Haley: US won't accept a nuclear North Korea 02:11Trump's salvo raised questions about how far he appreciates the gravity of the standoff with North Korea that Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned Sunday is heading ever closer to nuclear war. The great fear of nuclear experts is that North Korea will this year succeed in tipping a ballistic missile with a nuclear device that could hit the US mainland. Kim has anchored his regime on the idea that the United States, the North's enemy in the 1950-1953 Korean War is bent on destroying the communist regime in a nuclear strike.

Source: CNN January 03, 2018 06:00 UTC