For many Americans, the current term of President Trump has been eventful to say the least. From his stance on immigration all the way to his tweets on the NFL protests, Trump has been able to gain a response from just about anyone. However, perhaps his most disconcerting actions have had to do with the authoritarian regime of North Korea.  

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The tension in the relationship with North Korea and the United States has been growing with increasing speed since the nuclear test conducted by Kim-Jung Un’s government.  Trump took an aggressive approach to dealing with the developments in North Korea saying that the country would feel “fire and fury unlike the world has ever seen”.  In return, North Korea released a statement of their own stating that their “leader Kim Jong Un was weighing whether to strike the US Pacific territory of Guam” (Financial Times).

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It is because of these escalating threats that many people are beginning to fear that war is just over the horizon for these two countries.  Also, worrisome is that North Korea has claimed to have had 4.7 million people recently enlist into their armed forces (USA Today). In response to the actions by North Korea, the President has “recently added eight North Korean banks and 26 individual operating in four countries to its sanctions (Fox News).

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China was praised a short while ago for their ban on “coal, iron, lead ore and seafood to North Korea” during early September (Fox News). This ban could have detrimental effects to the North Korea due to China being one of their main trading partner. As a result of the attitudes that these countries have taken to each other, many people have begun to worry just how much longer it will take for this verbal war to become a tangible war.

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However, if there were to be a tangible war, there would be different reactions from different countries. There are some such as Japan and South Korea who support the views and rhetoric that Trump has recently given to Twitter, however there are some who, like many Americans, favor a non-military resolution. Countries such as United Kingdom, Germany, and Russia are countries that can be sorted into this group. Australia has also spoken up about if there would be any attack against the USA, they would have our back (Washington Post). Guam also has released a statement to its citizens about the North Korean situation, saying that there is a level of defenses in place to keep the island safe if there would be an attack, however they should not put too much stock into the threat due to how the island has been “a target since 2013, and even before that” (Washington Post).  However, despite the support that the President appears to be receiving from our allies in other countries, he is however close to losing the support of that he most needs; the American people. According to a recent poll from NPR, with a slim majority of 51 percent, there is starting to be a majority of Americans who feel that the President has been mishandling the situation (NPR). It stands to reason then that rather that the President should begin using his Twitter to gain solidarity among the American populace, rather than using it to dig a hole that might not have any coming back from.