WASHINGTON, D.C.: The crisis over North Korea’s nuclear program deepened Thursday when US President Donald Trump underscored his threat to rain “fire and fury” on Kim Jong-un’s regime by saying his apocalyptic warning perhaps “wasn’t tough enough.”

The latest escalation in the stand-off has set the world on edge, with stock markets down and jittery observers now openly pondering whether the risk of nuclear conflict is real.

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