Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury”
Reporting and findings
- documented
Trump said North Korea would be met with “fire and fury” if it made further threats against the United States.
Corrects claim:north-korea-fire-and-fury-threat
Summary and current status
Trump issued the conditional ‘fire and fury’ threat on August 8, 2017
People and organizations
- Donald J. Trumppresident making the threat
- Democratic People's Republic of Koreastate targeted by the threat
Relationships in this file
- Donald J. Trumpthreatened North Korea with fire and furyDemocratic People's Republic of Korea
Figures
Explicit conditional threat of force1 statement Calculation details
- Basis
- Observed
- Population
- Trump's August 8, 2017 statement targeting North Korea
- Period
- 2017-08-08 to 2017-08-08
- As of
- 2017-08-08
- Method
- Count the dated fire-and-fury statement once. The condition was further North Korean threats against the United States. Use the active replacement entry, not its superseded predecessor.
- Uncertainty
- A documented statement, not an operation or adjudicated legal violation. This is not a census of every threat.