Ivanka Trump calls for 'maximum pressure' on North Korea
Source: The Guardian
Benjamin Haas in Pyeongchang
Sat 24 Feb 2018 03.59 GMT
Ivanka Trump is leading a US delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea in an effort to show a softer side of US diplomacy on the peninsula while calling for maximum pressure to be put on North Korea.
Trump watched snowboarding events in Pyeongchang with South Korea’s first lady, Kim Jung-sook, and foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha. Wearing a Team USA hat and red snowsuit, she captured the attention of local media. Her trip comes less than two weeks after Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong-un’s younger sister, visited the South and largely overshadowed US vice president Mike Pence.
“We cannot have a better, or smarter, person representing our country,” Donald Trump said in an early morning tweet.
At a dinner on Friday, Ivanka Trump’s message of “maximum pressure” seemed to clash with South Korean president Moon Jae-in’s strategy of denuclearisation through dialogue. Experts have said the North’s recent diplomatic overtures are aimed at driving a wedge between Washington and Seoul, and the mixed messages suggested there may be tension between the allies.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/24/maximum-pressure-ivanka-trump-at-odds-with-south-koreas-north-diplomacy
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Personally, I would advise her to be careful what she says on her trip near North Korea....
It would seem to me that this is the most dangerous time for her being near the strike zone of military missile threats from North Korea when their dear leader realizes the prized daughter of the Dotard is right there....
I mean this seriously....the North Korean leader might realize that the Dotard wouldn't send a nuclear weapon at his little princess now, would he? Or would he?
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