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A video has recently surfaced on YouTube which shows Donald Trump being interviewed by the late Tim Russert of NBC back in 1999.
In the interview, Russert asks Trump about North Korea’s weapons programs. Trump then lays out the very crisis scenario now transpiring between the US and North Korea, and how he would deal with it, were he president.
Like many interviews with Trump on political issues over the years, it reveals a remarkable consistency in the man’s thinking and positions over the decades – a far cry from the MSM caricature of Trump as flip flopping and reckless.

On 31st July 2017 I wrote an article for The Duran in which I said that the US is overreacting to the North Korean ballistic missile tests
Here is what I wrote in that article

North Korea has responded to Donald Trump’s earlier remarks with a threat to envelope the island of Guam with fire.
Guam is a small island ruled by the United States located in the west Pacific. Guam is home to America’s Andersen Air Force Base.
The coastline of the US territory of Guam
North Korea has stated that it is

“carefully considering examining the operational plan for making an enveloping fire at the areas around Guam”.

Donald Trump and North Korean media are equally famous for dramatic rhetoric, but today, Donald Trump has upped the stakes saying the following when asked by a reporter to respond to North Korea’s latest statements about the United States.
Trump said that Pyongyang “best not make any more threats to the US”.
He added that further North Korean threats,

“will be met with fire & fury — and frankly power — the likes of which the world has never seen before”.

While the Trump administration continues to paint the Chinese and Russian position as one of either being with America or being with North Korea, this false dichotomy is not only insulting to two fellow superpowers, but it is deeply misguided.

North Korea’s second successful test launch of its Hwasong-14 missile has resulted in typically fiery rhetoric and sabre rattling from Washington.

Following a successful ICBM test by the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK, also referred to as North Korea), United States president Donald Trump behaved in what he considers an unpresidential fashion and took to twitter:

Talk about not being able to move on.
It’s been over 5 months since the 44th and possibly most useless US president ever to hold the office, vacated the White House.
But since then, Barack Hussein Obama has kept up a busy schedule of public addresses and meetings with world leaders.
In other words, Obama has gone right on acting as the US head-of-state. No more and no less.

On Tuesday the US and South Korea held a joint military exercise which included firing ATACMS missiles into the Sea of Japan.
Washington and Seoul called it a response to the launch of what the North Korean government claims to be an intercontinental ballistic missile.
They launched an “ATA…what?” you may ask.
In full, it’s the “Army Tactical Missile System,” and can deliver a 500 lbs (225 kilo) warhead up to 180 miles (290 km).

Both the US and Russia say that the Hwasong-14 missile which was launched today is of intermediate range, and is not as North Korea claims an intercontinental ballistic missile (“ICBM”).  It seems that whilst the missile can cover all of Alaska it does not have the range to reach the rest of the continental United States.