North Korean Foreign Minister Says Trump Has 'Declared War' - NBC News

North Korean Foreign Minister Says Trump Has 'Declared War' - NBC News

The White House on Monday rejected the notion that the U.S. had declared war and ripped Pyongyang's talk of shooting down American planes.

"We have not declared war on North Korean, and frankly the suggestion of that is absurd," White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at a press briefing Monday.

She added that "it's never appropriate for a country to shoot down another country’s aircraft when" the planes are over international waters.

Kim and his officials are no stranger to fiery, war-like rhetoric, often threatening to immolate the U.S. in "a sea of fire" and to reduce "the whole of the U.S. mainland to ruins."

Since assuming office, Trump has also joined in with bold language of his own, warning North Korea that he could visit "fire" and "fury" on the authoritarian regime if it threatened the U.S.