Historians find little precedent for Trump’s words

US presidential historians have found little precedent in the modern era for Donald Trump’s harsh military rhetoric on North Korea.

US presidential historians have found little precedent in the modern era for Donald Trump’s harsh military rhetoric on North Korea.

They’ve had to go back to World War II to find any similar comparison to the president’s threat of “fire and fury”.

Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro reports from Washington, DC.