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Article snippet: took those comments a step further, saying, “If anything, maybe that statement wasn’t tough enough.” Here is an overview of The New York Times’s coverage of the events as they have unfolded so far. The United States and North Korea have been in conflict for decades. Here is a look at how that conflict has built to this point over the years. In July, North Korea successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that appeared capable of hitting Alaska and Hawaii, prompting the United States to toughen its military pressure on the North Koreans. (The test also prompted Hawaii to update its emergency preparedness guide.) A few weeks later, it tested a missile that experts said was capable of hitting California. The tensions spiked on Tuesday when Mr. Trump, from his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., told reporters: “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.” His aides said that the threat had been ad-libbed, and that they had not known beforehand that Mr. Trump planned to use such provocative language. North Korea’s leader, got more specific, saying they were preparing plans to fire four ballistic missiles into the waters near Guam. People who live in Guam and the nearby Northern Mariana Islands talked about finding themselves suddenly in the cross hairs. Asian officials — particularly in countries like Japan and South Korea that would be most vulnerable to North Korean agg... Link to the full article to read more