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Related: About this forumWhy Trumps threat to 'totally destroy' North Korea is extraordinary - even for him
Source: Washington Post
By Aaron Blake September 19 at 11:31 AM
This post has been updated with the White House's response.
President Trump took to the floor of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday and, in his maiden speech there, called the leader of North Korea Rocket Man, decried loser terrorists and said certain parts of the world are in fact, going to hell.
But Trump's perhaps oddly chosen colloquialisms masked what was a pretty astounding escalation of his rhetoric when it comes to North Korea. Just to be clear: The president of the United States threatened to wipe a country of 25 million people off the map.
Now North Korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles threatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of human life, Trump said. He later added: The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself.
Trump's rhetoric on North Korea has been very tough before. He turned heads last month by threatening to unleash fire and fury if North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong Un, threatened the United States. But Trump's speech Tuesday ratcheted things up in two respects: saying the United States would also unleash a massive response on behalf of its allies, and threatening to totally destroy the country.
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RandySF
(59,225 posts)Even the so-called U.S. experts in Pyongyang are so isolated that they know little about Trump. And one day, Trump is going so something that's interpreted as an imment attack. Or, we could send another "flyover" over N. Korea that's interpreted as a strike. There is no doubt to anyone who's been there that they WILL attack under the right provocation.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)CrispyQ
(36,514 posts)now that Obama was out of office. Bet he still feels the same way, eating up all that Breitbart shit.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)for the speech. They are as bad as he is and I don't think have any desire to get rid of him. It is disheartening.
matt819
(10,749 posts)One that has to be stopped.
Sure, NK is not a group of choir boys, but this is beyond the pale.
The buffoon-in-chief has to be stopped.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)Their goal of destroying America is coming time fruition.
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)He's gotta go before he acts on his worst impulses.