Military option with N Korea 'locked and loaded': Trump

"Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!" Trump added in reference to the North's development of nuclear weapons despite increased United Nations sanctions.

Military solutions are now fully in place,locked and loaded,should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!

Trump's latest warning came a day after he cautioned North Korea that "things will happen to them like they never thought possible" should the isolated country attack the United States or its allies.

Trump also told reporters that his previous day's threat of "fire and fury" may not have been "tough enough," even as he sought to reassure an anxious world that he has the situation under control.

The escalation in rhetoric by Trump — which some US leaders and allies have criticized — comes as North Korea has stepped up its threats against the United States, including a potential missile launch landing near the US territory of Guam.

Trump's rhetoric has become considerably more bellicose in recent days. Just this past weekend, the administration was congratulating itself for orchestrating a unanimous UN Security Council vote to sharply increase sanctions against Pyongyang, describing steady diplomatic and economic pressure as the keystone of its strategy.

Instead, Trump said Thursday that the administration is now examining its entire military posture in Asia and that "we are preparing for many different alternative events."

He said that he had already decided to increase the "antimissile" budget "by many billions of dollars, because of North Korea and other reasons."

Trump has said that his "fire and fury" threats against North Korea have not been "tough enough" as he warned Pyongyang risks being "in trouble like few nations have ever been."

"It's about time someone stood up for the people of our country," the

US President told reporters as part of two separate addresses to the media before and after a security briefing with top advisers.

Trump said earlier this week that North Korea faces "retaliation with fire and fury unlike any the world has seen before" if it continues to threaten the US, rattling both allies and adversaries and leading to the letter of complaint from Congress sent to Secretary of State Rex Tilleron on Thursday.

"Frankly, the people who were questioning that statement, was it too tough? Maybe it wasn't tough enough," Trump said. Taking specifically about North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the President said: "He has disrespected our country greatly. He has said things that are horrific. And with me, he's not getting away with it. He got away with it for a long time between him and his family. ... This is a whole new ball game."