Trump Warns US May ‘Have No Choice But To Destroy North Korea’ In First UN Speech

Trump Signs Executive Order Cracking Down On North Korea
RYAN PICKRELL
China/Asia Pacific Reporter
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday significantly expanding sanctions on the rogue North Korean regime.

“The new executive order will cut off sources of revenue that fund North Korea’s efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to human kind,” the president introduced at a press conference.

Trump explained that the order dramatically enhances the Department of the Treasury’s authority to “target any individual or entity that conducts significant trade in goods, services, or technology with North Korea.”

The order targets key industries, as well as essential shipping networks.

“For much too long, North Korea has been allowed to abuse the international financial system to facilitate funding for its nuclear weapons and missile programs,” the president told reporters. “The United States has had representatives working on this problem for over 25 years, and they have done nothing.”

“That is why we are in the problem that we are in today, in addition to, frankly, other countries not doing what they should have done,” he added.

Trump announced that tolerance for this practice must end now.

The Department of the Treasury now has the authority and discretion to sanction any foreign bank that knowingly conducts business with North Korea. “Foreign banks will face a clear choice: do business with the United States or facilitate trade with the lawless regime in North Korea,” Trump said.

“It is unacceptable that others financially support this criminal rogue regime,” he said.

The president stressed that the order targets only one country: North Korea. Trump praised China’s central bank for ordering that banks in China stop conducting business with North Korea.

The new order follows a new round of United Nations sanctions — the strongest ever — in response to North Korea’s test of a suspected staged thermonuclear weapon for its intercontinental ballistic missile.

Trump Warns US May ‘Have No Choice But To Destroy North Korea’ In First UN Speech
RYAN PICKRELL
China/Asia Pacific Reporter
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President Donald Trump warned that “Rocket Man” Kim Jong Un is on a “suicide mission” in his first address to the United Nations.

“The scourge of our planet today is a small group of rogue regimes,” Trump said at the U.N. General Assembly. “No one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the well-being of their own people than the depraved regime in North Korea.” The president made it clear that if North Korea does not change course, the U.S. and its allies may be forced to destroy the regime.
The North Korean delegation had a front-row seat to Trump’s speech.
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“It is responsible for the starvation deaths of millions of North Koreans and for the imprisonment, torture, killing, and oppression of countless more,” the president explained. Trump cited the death of Otto Warmbier, an American citizen detained in North Korea for over a year, the assassination of Kim Jong Un’s half brother with banned chemical weapons, and the kidnapping of foreign citizens as examples of the regime’s brutality.

“North Korea’s reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles threatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of human life,” Trump added. North Korea has launched numerous ballistic missiles this year and tested a suspected staged thermonuclear bomb which can be mounted on a ballistic missile, including North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile.

“It is an outrage that some countries would not only trade with such a regime but would arm, supply, and financially support a country that imperils the world with nuclear conflict,” he explained. China and Russia have been the primary supporters of the regime, but both countries have taken steps in recent months to pressure Pyongyang. Trump thanked them for their cooperation on recent UN sanctions resolutions but stressed that “we must do much more.”

“No nation on earth in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles,” Trump told the general assembly, “The United States is a nation of 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.”

“The United States is ready willing and able, but hopefully this will not be necessary,” Trump said.


Trump warns U.S. may have to 'totally destroy' North Korea
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NEW YORK — President Trump bluntly warned in a speech to the United Nations on Tuesday that the United States may be forced to “totally destroy North Korea” if that country proceeds with its nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile programs.

Condemning the “depraved” North Korean regime as a major threat to global security, Trump mocked its leader, Kim Jong Un, saying: “‘Rocket Man’ is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.”

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“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,” the president told world leaders in his first address to the annual U.N. General Assembly.

That unusually martial language from the U.N. rostrum drew a rebuke from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, who said that the president used the United Nations “as a stage to threaten war” and said his “bombastic threat” did nothing to help defuse the crisis.

Trump’s stark message came in a roughly 40-minute speech in which he also sharply criticized China, mildly rebuked Russia, condemned Venezuela’s government, and suggested he might scrap the Iran nuclear deal. Overall, the tone was a nod back to his 2016 campaign’s unapologetically nationalist approach to world affairs.

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“I will always put America first, just like you, as the leaders of your countries, will always and should always put your countries first,” the president said. “In America, we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to watch.”

Some of Trump’s toughest language targeted China, North Korea’s primary patron and trading partner.

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“It is an outrage that some nations would not only trade with such a regime, but would arm, supply and financially support a country that imperils the world with nuclear conflict,” he said, without explicitly naming Beijing. “No nation on earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping skipped the General Assembly, as he frequently does. Other absent leaders included Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Trump also pressed for global action to rein in Tehran and hinted that he could either tear up the Iran nuclear deal, which he pronounced “one of the worst and most one-sided” accords Washington has ever signed, or declare that the Islamic Republic is not in compliance with the agreement.

“We cannot abide by an agreement if it provides cover for the eventual construction of a nuclear program,” he said. “Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the United States, and I don’t think you’ve heard the last of it, believe me.”

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Russia rated only a couple of passing mentions in the speech: Trump lumped its invasion of Ukraine among “threats to sovereignty” that deserve condemnation, but praised Moscow for joining recent unanimous 15-0 U.N. Security Council votes to tighten sanctions on North Korea.

But Trump, who in mid-August had floated a “possible military option” to respond to Venezuela’s slide into chaos, railed at length against that country’s leader, Nicolas Maduro.

“The Venezuelan people are starving, and their country is collapsing. Their democratic institutions are being destroyed. This situation is completely unacceptable, and we cannot stand by and watch,” the president said. “We are prepared to take further action if the government of Venezuela persists on its path to impose authoritarian rule on the Venezuelan people.”

Trump further vowed to “stop radical Islamic terrorism,” a phrase he had left out of recent speeches, and declared, “It is time to expose and hold responsible those countries who support and finance terror groups.” He did not name names.

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Again and again, the president returned to the theme of national sovereignty, describing international trade deals and immigration as threats to America’s identity.

“The United States will forever be a great friend to the world, and especially to its allies,” he promised. “But we can no longer be taken advantage of or enter into a one-sided deal where the United States gets nothing in return.”

And he blamed “mammoth multinational trade deals, unaccountable international tribunals and powerful global bureaucracies” for lost jobs and shuttered factories in the United States.

Returning to a core theme of his campaign, Trump said: “Our great middle class, once the bedrock of American prosperity, was forgotten and left behind. But they are forgotten no more, and they will never be forgotten again.”

Trump’s presidency has been shaped by a range of clashes with foreign allies. The president has suggested that he would not honor NATO’s mutual-defense provision unless partner nations stepped up defense spending. He scrapped U.S. participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, upsetting leaders in Japan, South Korea and a number of other countries worried about being in the shadow of a rising China. He called for ending the U.S. trade deal with South Korea, shocking Seoul at a time when both countries need to cooperate on North Korea. He withdrew from the Paris Agreement to fight climate change, a step French President Emmanuel Macron has urged him to reconsider. And Trump has repeatedly said Mexico will pay for the border wall he promised during his campaign, something America’s southern neighbor flatly rejects.

Trump made no mention of the Middle East peace process or international efforts to combat climate change in his remarks.

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President Donald Trump warned that “Rocket Man” Kim Jong Un is on a “suicide mission” in his first address to the United Nations.

“The scourge of our planet today is a small group of rogue regimes,” Trump said at the U.N. General Assembly. “No one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the well-being of their own people than the depraved regime in North Korea.” The president made it clear that if North Korea does not change course, the U.S. and its allies may be forced to destroy the regime.

“It is responsible for the starvation deaths of millions of North Koreans and for the imprisonment, torture, killing, and oppression of countless more,” the president explained. Trump cited the death of Otto Warmbier, an American citizen detained in North Korea for over a year, the assassination of Kim Jong Un’s half brother with banned chemical weapons, and the kidnapping of foreign citizens as examples of the regime’s brutality.

“North Korea’s reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles threatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of human life,” Trump added. North Korea has launched numerous ballistic missiles this year and tested a suspected staged thermonuclear bomb which can be mounted on a ballistic missile, including North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile.


“It is an outrage that some countries would not only trade with such a regime but would arm, supply, and financially support a country that imperils the world with nuclear conflict,” he explained. China and Russia have been the primary supporters of the regime, but both countries have taken steps in recent months to pressure Pyongyang. Trump thanked them for their cooperation on recent UN sanctions resolutions but stressed that “we must do much more.”

“No nation on earth in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles,” Trump told the general assembly, “The United States is a nation of 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.”

“The United States is ready willing and able, but hopefully this will not be necessary,” Trump said.