As President Donald Trump left a church service Sunday, he told a pool of reporters that “we’ll see” if the U.S. attacks North Korea following its latest nuclear bomb test.
WATCH: Reporter: “Mr. President, will you attack North Korea?”
President Trump: “We’ll see.”
https://t.co/wkUxeMt8Ex— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 3, 2017
He called North Korea’s recent hydrogen bomb test “very hostile and dangerous to the United States.” The blast was detected by seismic stations all over the world.
Trump will convene his national security team as soon as possible after Kim Jong-un’s successful test of a hydrogen bomb that North Korea can supposedly attach to a long-range missile, The Washington Post reported.
North Korea’s hydrogen bomb test setoff off a manmade earthquake near the test site. Japanese and South Korean officials said the tremor was about 10 times more powerful than the one measured after the nation’s last nuclear test a year ago, Reuters reported.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Sunday morning the national security team is “monitoring this closely.”
“The president and his national security team will have a meeting to discuss further later today. We will provide updates as necessary,” she said.
On Twitter, Trump said Sunday that he was considering stopping all trade with countries that conduct business with North Korea.
The United States is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017
He also thanked his Twitter followers for no apparent reason.
I will be meeting General Kelly, General Mattis and other military leaders at the White House to discuss North Korea. Thank you.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017
Trump also berated longtime U.S. ally South Korea, saying “South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!”
According to Reuters, there was no independent confirmation that the detonation was a hydrogen bomb as opposed to a less powerful atomic weapon North Korea has tested in the past.
