President Donald Trump voiced his frustration at the lack of progress diplomatic talks and economic sanctions have had on the Kim Jong-Un regime in North Korea with regard to the Asian…
President Donald Trump voiced his frustration at the the lack of progress diplomatic talks and economic sanctions have had on the Kim Jong-Un regime in North Korea with regard to the Asian nation’s nuclear program and continuing ballistic missile tests. Speaking alongside South Korea President Moon Jae-in, Trump declared that US “patience is over” and urged the international community to confront North Korea with a “determined response.”
In welcoming South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, to the White House, President Donald Trump, according to The Guardian, doubled down on his labeling of Kim Jong-Un’s government a “brutal regime, ” the same charge he made subsequent to the death of University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who died within days of being returned to the United States in a vegetative state, a state acquired, according to allegations, by his treatment while a prisoner of North Korea for over a year.
“Together, we are facing the threat of the reckless and brutal regime in North Korea. The nuclear and ballistic missile programs of that regime require a determined response, ” Trump said.
“The North Korean dictatorship has no regard for the safety and security of its people, for its neighbors and has no respect for human life, ” he added.
Trump seemed to be venting his frustrations at the concerted effort by the international community to place stricter economic sanctions on North Korea for their failure to end its pursuit of an expanded nuclear weapons program. The sanctions, United Nations reprimands and Security Council resolutions, and increased US military presence (including three aircraft carrier strike groups off the Korean Peninsula) have had no effect other than to prompt North Korea’s state-run media to continue a barrage of threatening and bellicose rhetoric it has directed toward Donald Trump and his administration that has been ongoing since before his inauguration in January.
