Donald Trump’s North Korea meeting was held the meeting in the situation room in the White House where US Presidents traditionally hold “war councils” at times of conflict.
The most senior US general recently told the American army to “stand ready” for war with North Korea.
General James ‘Mad dog’ Mattis warned it is impossible to tell what the future holds for the crisis, but urged US troops to be prepared for a confrontation with Kim Jong-un.
He said while Donald Trump is committed to finding a diplomatic solution, the US Army must “stand ready” to fight.
The move comes after North Korea issued its latest warning to the USA which described Mr Trump as a “lunatic” and said he needed to be prepared for “total destruction”.

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The statement was bizarrely issued by a spokesman for North Korea’s ‘Emergency Measure Committee for Opposing Nuclear War Drills against the DPRK’.
The spokesman said: “The evil cycle of escalation of tension persists and the danger of the outbreak of a nuclear war mounts on the Korean peninsula.
“It is because the US and the puppet forces are planning to keep the US strategic assets in and around south Korea on a permanent basis by expanding the scale of their deployment while kicking up the racket of nuclear war drills against the North.”
The statement, entitled ‘US, South Korea Will Face Total Destruction’, also personally attacked Donald Trump and warned him of his future conduct.
The spokesman said: “The US planned expansion of the cycle deployment of nuclear strategic assets, ill-famed as pronoun of aggression and war, clearly proves that Trump’s lunatic pledge to ‘totally destroy’ the DPRK and ‘stamp out’ its people is being led to extremely dangerous military gambling.
“The puppet forces are keen on senseless farce of offering south Korea as a theatre of nuclear war of big powers after introducing nuclear weapons and offering huge fund collected from people as tax.
“They are imbeciles unable to discern the right from the wrong.”
North Korea’s increasingly erratic dictator Kim Jong-un has ratcheted up the war of words in recent days, issuing a number of threats.
Only yesterday Pyongyang’s state-controlled news agency KCNA issued a statement yesterday directly threatening Japan, stating the country’s preparations for a possible war could be “destroyed to pieces”.
It added: “Japan can never be safe if a war breaks out on the Korean peninsula. Everything in Japan mobilised for the war can be destroyed to pieces, to say nothing of the US aggression bases there.
“The Japanese authorities are strongly warned that if they go reckless with the backing of the US they can bring irrevocable misfortune to the Japanese archipelago.”