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Trump at UN: US May Have to 'Totally Destroy' North Korea
Newsmax ^ | 19 Sep 2017

Posted on 09/19/2017 7:55:54 AM PDT by mandaladon

President Donald Trump warned 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 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" behavior.

A junior North Korean diplomat remained in the delegation's front-row seat for Trump's speech, the North Korean U.N. mission said.

Turning to Iran, Trump called the 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama, was an embarrassment and hinted that he may not recertify 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nk; nknukes; trump; trumpasia; trumpun; un
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To: uncbob
MacArthur was 100% right about Korea and Red China back in 51 and 52 and the Truman Administration, the British and the French 100% wrong

Too late now but you are correct.

Don't forget General Patton wanted to kick the Russians back to their border. General Lemay would have graciously helped.

Imagine if we destroyed Communism by 1946!

Imagine if we destroyed the Iranian revolution in 1980.

Imagine if we DIDN'T destroy Iraq and help destroy Libya and Syria. Politics and War are strange bedfellows.

41 posted on 09/19/2017 9:17:37 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: mandaladon

I do akways try to find the good in any situation and I must say that there is probably one advantage the Norks have on the rest of the world—I bet North Korea doesn’t have a muslim problem!


42 posted on 09/19/2017 9:18:53 AM PDT by Jaysin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

wow, i wonder who put the extra cheese in that extra cheesy CGI, lol


43 posted on 09/19/2017 9:20:07 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: Little Ray
History tells a sad tale of what happens when the US urges other countries to take the initiative. To have any credibility at all The US needs to be out front and leading.
44 posted on 09/19/2017 9:20:24 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: circlecity
I can see the liberal heads exploding on the left wing info-tainment shows tonight.They explode every night on the msm news. It's more like DNC talking points and faux outrage every night, very predictable and very boring because it's so fake.
45 posted on 09/19/2017 9:24:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: CIB-173RDABN

War crime, unreal. So if North Korea nukes us and we destroy them it’s a war crime. Yes, we should be a polite country and accept nuclear attacks.


46 posted on 09/19/2017 9:48:46 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
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To: neverevergiveup; advertising guy
Trump will have an opportunity in October to decertify Iran's compliance with the deal, but the British-Iranian, Christiane Amanpour would apparently have her audience believe that Trump cannot do what he said, painting him as a liar or an impotent, not-thinking-straight leader. She'd be wrong about that, but she's apparently playing for effect, rather than to expose the facts.

Despite the tendentiousness of what she implies, what she technically says does have a smidgen of truth. If Trump doesn't recertify, all the benefits Iran has already received are not required to be returned. The only people that might have pretended that would be the case have long been drinking Obama's Kool-Aide. We've long suspected if not known Obama was just giving away the farm--largely in cash and nuclear OKIE-DOKIES--to ValJar & Christiane's mother country.

Yes, Trump "risks alienating" the other signatory nations, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and the United Nations, but so far only Amanpour seems to think Trump cannot do what he said.

If by saying "the Iran deal cannot be undone" Amanpour means we're not going to get back the pallets of cash we sent, she has a sloppy, biased way of attacking Trump to say it. But for the most part, Christiane is just wrong and misleading.

47 posted on 09/19/2017 10:07:05 AM PDT by rx (Truth Will Out!)
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To: rx

Agreed


48 posted on 09/19/2017 10:09:32 AM PDT by advertising guy (The Media lie 90 % of the time , the other 10% , they haven't lied yet)
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To: vette6387
Simple answer. Collectively, they don’t have the military muscle to “deal” with NK.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. SK has an advanced military. I suspect they may not have the warm bodies to enforce an occupation of the North, but they do have the capability to crush their conventional warfighting capability in a very short period of time.
49 posted on 09/19/2017 10:22:12 AM PDT by JamesP81 (The DNC poses a greater threat to my liberty than terrorists, China, and Russia. Combined.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Moron is bordering on treason.


50 posted on 09/19/2017 10:25:42 AM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: shanover

click the image for the source.

I tend to agree with you however it seems that there was an easier way but apparently it was not taken.

Perhaps it's not too late, Learn to Pray the Rosary Every Day.

51 posted on 09/19/2017 10:27:01 AM PDT by infool7 (Pray, Think, Act)
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To: shanover

“Don’t forget General Patton wanted to kick the Russians back to their border.”

He was not the only one. Just after the war, my uncle who was a PBY flier was stationed in North Korea. According to him, one of their unarmed patrol missions over Manchuria was shot at by the Ruskies. His pilots wanted to rearm the planes and go after them (not a good match up). Denied by higher authority. They were really POed according to him.


52 posted on 09/19/2017 10:29:24 AM PDT by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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To: rx
Nice summary of the facts. Thanks. I always take anything Amanpour says with a nanoparticle size ‘grain of salt’. I'm sure she sees herself as an ‘informed, educated, enlightened, woman of the world - beyond silly territorial boundaries’. I've run into these types too many times, and listened to their predictable criticisms of the US and US policy (meaning, anything that's actually in the US best interest). Few are as ignorant as the self-convinced.
53 posted on 09/19/2017 10:41:00 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: mandaladon

Poor Neil Cavuto is beside himself.

I’d say Trump was very clear. They all think it wasn’t very diplomatic of him.

They all prefer that he would have said “weasel word weasel word weasel word DEPLORE CONDEMN weasel word weasel word weasel word”


54 posted on 09/19/2017 10:44:27 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: xzins

Trump has just had his ‘evil empire’ moment.


55 posted on 09/19/2017 11:11:03 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: alancarp

Excellent point


56 posted on 09/19/2017 11:18:32 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: mandaladon

I would have liked the words “utter annihilation” but close enough.


57 posted on 09/19/2017 11:28:07 AM PDT by monkeybrau
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To: AlanGreenSpam

“Of course there are no countries that want to attack NK anyway.”

The desire for reunification burns in the hearts of Koreans both north and south.

If the south thought the cost/benefit analysis to be acceptable, they’d attack the north in a heartbeat.


58 posted on 09/19/2017 1:29:11 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: infool7

So...ronery.


59 posted on 09/19/2017 1:31:32 PM PDT by agatheringstorm
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To: mandaladon

Destroy North Korea? What does that mean? He will nuke North Korea to stop them from uselessly lobbing missiles into the Pacific?


60 posted on 09/19/2017 1:36:17 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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