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Jacob Fromer
Jacob Fromer is NK News's Washington DC correspondent. He previously worked in the U.S. Senate.
President Donald Trump's recent comments about his lingering willingness to use military force against North Korea would be a "very dangerous challenge" to the DPRK if the remarks were deliberate and sincere, one of the country's top officials said in a statement on Thursday.
The statement, from Choe Son Hui, the First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, is the second in two days from a senior North Korean official reacting directly to Trump's words.