Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 19-09-2017
US President Donald Trump has threatened the “total destruction’” of North Korea if it does not abandon its drive toward nuclear weapons.
Trump was speaking during his debut speech to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Monday.
Trump, who has ramped up his rhetoric throughout the escalating crisis with North Korea, told the murmuring crowd at the U.N. that “it is far past time for the nations of the world to confront” Kim Jong Un.
He says Kim’s “reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons” poses a threat to “the entire world with an unthinkable loss of human life.
“Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime. If it (US) is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”
Trump who has previously warned of “fire and fury” if Pyongyang does not back down, claimed “no one has shown more contempt for other nations and for the wellbeing of their own people than the depraved regime in North Korea.”
Elected on the nationalist slogan “America First,” Trump argued that individual nations should act in their own self-interest, yet rally together when faced with a common threat.
Trump also urged nations to join together to stop Iran’s nuclear program declaring the Iran nuclear deal an “embarrassment” for the United States — and defeat the “loser terrorists” who have struck violence across the globe.
“We will stop radical Islamic terrorism, because we cannot allow it to tear up our nation & indeed, to tear world.”
Trump frequently belittled the U.N. as a candidate and some within his White House believe the U.N acts as a global bureaucracy that infringes on the sovereignty of individual countries.
But the president stood before world leaders and a global audience and declared that U.N. members, acting as a collection of self-interested nations, should unite to confront global dangers.
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