Trump warns North Korea: 'Do not try us'
President Donald Trump delivered a sharp warning to North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un on Wednesday, telling him the weapons he's acquiring "are not making you
safer. They are putting your regime in grave danger."
In a speech delivered hours after he aborted a visit to the heavily fortified
Korean demilitarized zone due to bad weather, Trump called on all nations to
join forces "to isolate the brutal regime of North Korea — to deny it any form
of support, supply, or acceptance."
"Today, I hope I speak not only for our countries, but for all civilized
nations, when I say to the North: Do not underestimate us. And do not try us,"
he told South Korean lawmakers. "We will defend our common security, our shared
prosperity, and our sacred liberty."
Trump had been scheduled to make the unannounced early morning trip to the
DMZ amid heightened tensions with North Korea over its nuclear program.
The Marine One presidential helicopter left Seoul at daybreak and flew most
of the way to the DMZ but was forced to turn back just five minutes out due to
poor weather conditions. Reporters traveling in a separate helicopter as part of
the president's envoy saw fog through the windows, and weather reports from near
the heavily fortified border showed misting conditions and visibility below one
mile. Pilots, officials said, could not see the other helicopters in the
air.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president was
disappointed he couldn't make the trip. "I think he's pretty frustrated," she
told reporters. "It was obviously something he wanted to do."
Before he left for Asia, a White House official had ruled out a DMZ visit for
Trump, claiming the president didn't have time on his schedule and that DMZ
visits have become a little cliché.
But Sanders said the visit had been planned well before Trump's departure for
Asia. The trip was kept secret for security reasons, she said.
Trump had been scheduled to make the visit with South Korean President Moon
Jae-in, who traveled separately and landed about a 20-minute drive from the DMZ.
Sanders said the military and the U.S. Secret Service had deemed that landing
would not be safe, and Trump deferred to them.
Source: Associated Press
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