In the early hours of Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump attracted world headlines when he declared, in his own inimitable way, that Kim Jong Un had to stop threatening the United States.

“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Trump told assembled reporters from his New Jersey golf club. “They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”

But only a few hours later, North Korea upped the ante. In a state media report, the DPRK’s Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) announced it was “carefully examining”