President Donald Trump is monitoring the emerging North Korea crisis from Mar-a-Lago, his luxurious country club he uses for weekend getaways – but without some of the top advisors he usually drags along.

And former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is warning him to tread carefully.

'The words from the administration are creating even higher volume in terms of the provocations that are going on. I think we have got to be careful here,' Panetta told NBC News. 'We should not engage in any precipitous action. There is a reason no U.S. president in recent history has pulled the trigger on North Korea.'

Trump flew to Mar-a-Lago late Thursday afternoon, but not before saying goodbye to Chief of Staff Reince Priebus on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

President Donald Trump went to his Palm Beach resort without his chief of staff or other top advisers, as they spent time away for the Easter and Passover holidays

'I think we have got to be careful here,' former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday. 'We should not engage in any precipitous action'

Priebus, who is usually by Trump's side every day, walked away from Air Force Once instead of boarding it on Thursday

Priebus was seen walking to the back of the presidential motorcade after Trump boarded Air Force One; no other top staffers spotted when Trump rolled into Mar-a-Lago hours later.

North Korea upped its warmongering with Trump on Friday in a series of menacing boasts threatening to 'ravage' U.S. troops amid fears of a coming war.

The secretive state vowed to 'pulverize' U.S. bases and the South Korean capital of Seoul if it is threatened by the U.S. forces carrying out drills on the Korean peninsula.

A U.S. aircraft carrier group is also en route towards the region.

Pyongyang claimed it would 'ruthlessly ravage' the U.S. if Trump attacks. China warned the region could go to war 'at any moment.'

Priebus isn't the only top adviser missing from Palm Beach, Florida as the president considers his options.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un is threatening to 'pulverize' American troops if Trump gives the order to attack in order to stop the socialist state from becoming a nuclear power

A White House aide said top assistant Hope Hicks didn't make the trip, opting for holiday time with family.

Daughter Ivanka Trump, who just started her new West Wing job as an advisor to her father, flew to Canada Monday to spend Passover at the Four Seasons in Whistler, British Columbia.

It's not known where Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner was spending the weekend. Kushner rushed out of his Washington D.C. home on Thursday morning, shortly before the U.S. military dropped the 'Mother of All Bombs' on an ISIS tunnel network in Afghanistan.

Trump was also at Mar-a-Lago last Friday, where he held a summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and launched a missile strike against Syria.

US Army soldiers were pictured today taking part in exercises close to the border between North Korea in Paju, South Korea

Trump has already begun to rattle his saber, saying he's prepared to 'solve the problem' of a nuclear North Korea on his own

For that trip, he brought along top staff members, including feuding aides chief strategist Steve Bannon and Kushner, who got a prime seat near Trump during a dinner with the Chinese leader.

Bannon has been the subject of repeated reports since then that he could either get sidelined or even ousted from the White House staff.

Meanwhile, economic advisor Gary Cohn's star appears to have been brightening.

Asked who was staffing Trump over the long weekend, a White House official would say only that 'there are necessary staff with the President including an NSC staffer.'

Trump visited his Trump International golf course Friday morning, staying for about four hours. The Wall Street Journal reported that he golfed, citing sources.