The following article by Brian Bennett with the Tribune Content Agency was posted on the National Memo website September 23, 2017:
WASHINGTON — Senior aides to President Donald Trump repeatedly warned him not to deliver a personal attack on North Korea’s leader at the United Nations this week, saying insulting the young despot in such a prominent venue could irreparably escalate tensions and shut off any chance for negotiations to defuse the nuclear crisis.
Trump’s derisive description of Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man on a suicide mission” and his threat to “totally destroy” North Korea were not in a speech draft that several senior officials reviewed and vetted Monday, the day before Trump gave his first address to the U.N. General Assembly, two U.S. officials said. Continue reading “Aides Warned Trump Not To Attack North Korea’s Leader Personally Before His Fiery UN Address”