FOREIGN POLICY/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union touched on a number of international issues, including North Korea and the battle to defeat ISIS, but he didn’t offer any specifics and barely mentioned Russia or China… Here’s what he did include:
North Korea
The threat posed by North Korea’s continuing nuclear and missile technology is arguably the biggest global challenge faced by Trump during his presidency thus far.
During Tuesday’s speech, Trump once again turned his attention to the country’s leaders.
‘No regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea. North Korea’s reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland,’ he said in his address…
Sitting in the gallery during the State of the Union was Ji Seong-ho, a North Korean defector who made it out of the rogue nation and now resides in South Korea.
Trump told Ji’s story, one of a starving boy in North Korea some 20 years ago, whose limbs were run over by a train after he collapsed in exhaustion on the tracks, before enduring torture at the hands of North Korean authorities.
Trump said Ji was a ‘witness to the ominous nature’ of the authoritarian North Korean government.”
-Euan McKirdy, “What Trump said about ISIS, Iran and North Korea in his State of the Union speech,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Jan. 31, 2018 03:51am