South Korea, not wanting perhaps to contemplate that possibility of rockets raining down on the Korean peninsula, took a different view. Its Foreign Ministry said Trump in his tweet had issued a “clear warning” to North Korea that showed his awareness of the urgency of the threat — and will not waver from a policy of imposing sanctions.
“Because of our active outreach, President-elect Trump and U.S. officials are clearly aware of the gravity and urgency of the North Korean nuclear threat,” ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuck told a briefing. “They are maintaining an unwavering stance on the need for sanctions on North Korea and for close cooperation between South Korea and the U.S.”
This also raises the issue of how much interpretation should be required for the tweets of what will soon be the most powerful man in the world.
Euan Graham, director of the international security program at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, said the world was “on the slippery slope of trying to interpret one man’s not particularly coherent tweets,” but added that the exchange has increased the chances that North Korea could be “the first crisis out of the box” in the Trump presidency, at least in Asia.
Certainly Trump does appear to be concerned about the issue.
Citing a senior U.S. intelligence official, Reuters reported that Trump's first, and at that time only, request for a special classified intelligence briefing was for one on North Korea and its nuclear weapons program. Obama also reportedly made clear his concerns over the issue at his handover conversation with Trump.
But what is Trump going to do? His next tweet offered a clue. Get China to do more.
BEIJING – President-elect Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un have been trading threats this week, while China poses as the mature, reasonable kid on the block.
Kim kicked things off in a New Year’s address Sunday by saying his country was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which if successful, could ultimately put a nuclear warhead within range of parts of the United States.
Trump, who had once suggested inviting Kim over for a hamburger to convince him to give up his nuclear weapons program, took to his usual medium to respond.
outh Korea, not wanting perhaps to contemplate that possibility of rockets raining down on the Korean peninsula, took a different view. Its Foreign Ministry said Trump in his tweet had issued a “clear warning” to North Korea that showed his awareness of the urgency of the threat — and will not waver from a policy of imposing sanctions.
“Because of our active outreach, President-elect Trump and U.S. officials are clearly aware of the gravity and urgency of the North Korean nuclear threat,” ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuck told a briefing. “They are maintaining an unwavering stance on the need for sanctions on North Korea and for close cooperation between South Korea and the U.S.”
This also raises the issue of how much interpretation should be required for the tweets of what will soon be the most powerful man in the world.
Euan Graham, director of the international security program at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, said the world was “on the slippery slope of trying to interpret one man’s not particularly coherent tweets,” but added that the exchange has increased the chances that North Korea could be “the first crisis out of the box” in the Trump presidency, at least in Asia.
Certainly Trump does appear to be concerned about the issue.
Citing a senior U.S. intelligence official, Reuters reported that Trump's first, and at that time only, request for a special classified intelligence briefing was for one on North Korea and its nuclear weapons program. Obama also reportedly made clear his concerns over the issue at his handover conversation with Trump.
But what is Trump going to do? His next tweet offered a clue. Get China to do more.
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