He said the United States should not make a pre-emptive strike on the North without the consent of the South Korean people.
The US president tweeted to reveal he had promised Chinese leader Xi Jinping a better trade deal if the country "helped solve the North Korean problem".
That is, Trump says his hand would be forced (in a non-specific way) should China not assist in curtailing North Korea's behavior.
South Korea's acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn warned of "greater provocations" by North Korea and ordered the military to intensify monitoring and to ensure close communication with the US.
While the couple were famously able to escape in 1986 while attending a film festival in Vienna, gaining asylum in the U.S. in return for information about their captors, they endured eight long years in North Korea, many of them kept apart.
North Korea says it will take tough countermeasures if the US opts for military action after moving the USS Carl Vinson Aircraft Carrier to the waters off the Korean Peninsula.
A North Korean official on Monday blasted the deployment of a battle-ready USA strike group to the waters off the Korean Peninsula - and pledged that the Communist dictatorship is "ready" for war.
The country has been testing missiles, angering South Korea and China in addition to the Trump administration.
"We will hold the USA wholly accountable for the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by its outrageous actions..."
U.S. military strikes against Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons are a warning to other nations, including North Korea, that "a response is likely" if they pose a danger, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday.
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"The United States' dispatching Carl Vinson nuclear carrier task group again in the waters off the peninsula proves that the US's reckless moves for invading North Korea have reached a serious phase". "It's a very important question that we do not have answered at this point".
But it's not like planes are going to be flying off this aircraft carrier, taking out targets in North Korea.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that Beijing understands how risky North Korea's nuclear program has become and agrees action must be taken to stop it, but China hasn't signaled any change in its approach to Pyongyang since a summit between Trump and Chinese President Xi last week.
"We are really anxious about what Washington has in mind for North Korea after it hinted at the possibility of a unilateral military scenario", the ministry said in a statement. President Trump tweeted of his two-day summit with Xi at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
North Korea's patron, China, which supplies much of its food and fuel, would not look kindly on any such outcome, or on any military action by the United States.
"We'd like to ask precaution so as not to get blinded by exaggerated assessment about the security situation on the Korean Peninsula", defense Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-kyun said.
A top North Korea official stated Pyongyang intends to "relentlessly strengthen" the country's nuclear weapons during a meeting of North Korea's parliament commemorating Kim Jong Un's fifth year of rule.
Speculation over an imminent nuclear test is brewing as the North marks anniversaries including the 105th birthday of its late founding leader on Saturday - sometimes celebrated with a demonstration of military might.
Pyongyang's saber-rattling reflected heightened tensions amid the possibility of a sixth nuclear test or a ballistic missile launch by the North this month to coincide with major military and political events.
"We will take the toughest counteraction against the provocateurs in order to defend ourselves by powerful force of arms", they added. He has stated that China should take a larger role in pressuring the North Korean regime.
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