TRUMP SAYS U.S
MAY HAVE TO TOTALLY
DESTROY NORTH
KOREA
U.S. President Donald
Trump warned on Tuesday that the United States will be forced to “totally
destroy” North Korea unless Pyongyang backs down from its nuclear challenge,
mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.Loud
murmurs filled the green-marbled U.N. General Assembly hall when Mr. Trump
issued his sternest warning yet to North Korea, whose ballistic missile
launches and nuclear tests have rattled the globe.
Unless North Korea
backs down, he said, “We will have no choice than to totally destroy North
Korea.”“Rocket man is on a
suicide mission for himself and his regime,” he said.He urged United
Nations member states to work together to isolate the Kim government until it
ceases its “hostile” behaviour.A junior North Korean diplomat remained in the
delegation’s front-row seat during Mr. Trump’s speech, the North Korean U.N.
mission said.Turning to Iran, Mr. Trump said the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated
by his predecessor, Barack Obama, was an embarrassment and hinted that he may
not re-certify the agreement when it comes up for a mid-October deadline.“I don't think you've
heard the last of it,” he said.He called Iran an “economically
depleted rogue state” that exports violence.
The speech marked his
latest attempt to lay out his America First vision for a U.S. foreign policy
aimed at downgrading global bureaucracies, basing alliances on shared
interests, and steering Washington away from nation-building exercises abroad.Mr.
Trump, who entered the White House eight months ago, told world leaders at the
193-member global body that the United States does not seek to impose its will
on other nations and will respect other countries' sovereignty.
“I will defend
America's interests above all else,” he said. "But in fulfilling our
obligations to other nations we also realise it's in everyone's interest to
seek a future where all nations can be sovereign, prosperous and secure.”Reading carefully from
a script, Mr. Trump said the U.S. military would soon be the strongest it has
ever been.Turning to Venezuela,
Mr. Trump called the collapsing situation there “completely unacceptable” and
said the United States cannot stand by and watch.
Prof. John Kurakar
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