Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States was looking at ways to pressure NorthKorea over its nuclear programme as North Korean state media warned the Americans of a "super-mighty preemptive strike" and said don't "mess with us". U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a hard line with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who has rebuffed admonitions from sole major ally China and proceeded with nuclear and missile programmes in defiance of U.N. Security Council sanctions. Donald Trump recently tweeted that he has 'exposed the total failure' of Obama's foreign policy. Since the beginning of his presidency Donald Trump’s administration has taken strong views on the foreign on security, fighting terrorists abroad and strengthening border defenses and immigration controls to expanding the US military might.
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• Prof, John H. Stanfield, II. Prof Stanfield is a Distinguished Research Fellow in Democracy, Governance, and Service Delivery (DGSD) programme of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).
• Sithembile Mbete is a lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria, where she lecturers international relations and South African politics.
