Maybe 'fire and fury' comment 'wasn't tough enough,' Trump

WASHINGTON - 11 August 2017: US President Donald Trump reiterated his bellicose warning to North Korea from earlier in the week, telling reporters at his golf club in New Jersey on Thursday that his threat to bring "fire and fury" if North Korea continued to threaten the United States may not have gone far enough, CNN reported.

"Maybe it wasn't tough enough," Trump said during a lengthy exchange with reporters.

Trump said that past administrations had not done enough to take on North Korea and that it is time a President "stuck up for the country."

In off-the-cuff remarks on Tuesday, Trump said: "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States."

"They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen ... he has been very threatening beyond a normal state," Trump said. "They will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before."