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Sun Sep 3, 2017, 03:36 PM Sep 2017

Shouting match with North Korea escalated tensions

By CHRISTINA POWELL
Sep 3, 2017, 12:42 PM ET

Texas Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro said President Donald Trump's sharp exchange of warnings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “escalated the tension" with the rogue nation ...

Raddatz asked Castro about Trump's tweets Sunday morning saying "appeasement" doesn't work with North Korea because "they only understand one thing," and about the president's earlier warning that the U.S. would respond with "fire and fury" if Kim Jong Un's regime continued its provocations ...

"I don't think that it's been helpful," Castro said. "I don't think that it's helpful to get into a Twitter shouting match with a 32-year-old dictator, Kim Jong Un, in North Korea. I think, unfortunately, that it's escalated the tension and the situation" ...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-shouting-match-north-korea-escalated-tensions-democratic/story?id=49594028

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Shouting match with North Korea escalated tensions (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2017 OP
General Kelly should have stopped it, why didn't he? monmouth4 Sep 2017 #1
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