UPDATED: Trump warns against authoritarian regimes in U.N. speech
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Source: Politico
By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL 09/19/2017 10:18 AM EDT
President Donald Trump warned of “rogue regimes” on Tuesday, speaking before the United Nations General Assembly during what he described as “a time of both immense promise and great peril.”
“Terrorists and extremists have gathered strength and spread to every region of the planet. Rogue regimes represented in this body not only support terrorists but threaten other nations and their own people with the most destructive weapons known to humanity,” Trump said. “Authority and authoritarian powers seek to collapse the values, the systems and alliances that prevented conflict and tilted the world toward freedom since World War II.”
The president touted his administration's success but added that international criminal networks traffic drugs, weapons and people, and threaten America’s borders and menace its citizens with new technology.
“To put it simply,” he said, “we meet at a time of both immense promise and great peril. It is entirely up to us whether we lift the world to new heights or let it fall into a valley of disrepair.”
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UPDATE:
Trump warns that major portions of the world ‘are going to hell’
The president lashes out at North Korea, Iran and Venezuela during his first United Nations speech.
By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL 09/19/2017 10:18 AM EDT Updated 09/19/2017 10:55 AM EDT
President Donald Trump condemned authoritarian regimes in harsh and Trumpian terms during his first United Nations speech, lashing out at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man,” lamenting Iran’s "pursuit of death and destruction,” and warning that major portions of the world are “going to hell.”
“The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea,” Trump said Tuesday in a major address before the U.N. General Assembly. “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.”
The president insisted that the U.S. is “ready, willing and able” but cautioned that “hopefully this will not be necessary.”
“That’s what the United Nations is all about. That’s what the United Nations is for,” he said. “Let’s see how they do. It is time for North Korea to realize that the denuclearization is its only acceptable future.”
Trump also singled out Iran as he called on “the righteous many” to “confront the wicked few” to prevent “evil” from prevailing.
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