Trump issues warning to Pyongyang

President Donald Trump delivered a sharp warning to North Korea yesterday from Seoul in South Korea, telling the rogue nation: “Do not underestimate us. And do not try us.”In a speech delivered hours after he aborted a visit to the heavily fortified Korean demilitarised zone due to bad weather, Trump said he had a message for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.“The weapons you are acquiring are not making you safer, they are putting your regime in grave danger,” Trump told an audience of South Korean lawmakers, calling on all nations to join forces “to isolate the brutal regime of North Korea”.“The world cannot tolerate the menace of a rogue regime that threatens with nuclear devastation,” he said.Trump had hoped to underscore his message with an early morning visit to the DMZ, but his plans were thwarted by heavy fog that prevented his helicopter from landing at the heavily fortified border that has separated the North and South for the last 64 years.The Marine One 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.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.”The aborted visit came hours before Trump addressed the South Korean National Assembly as he closed out his two-day visit to the nation and headed to his next stop, Beijing.In the speech, Trump painted a bleak portrait of life in North Korea, describing citizens as bribing government officials to leave the country just so they can work as slaves.He contrasted the poverty and desperation to thriving South Korea — home to a long list of top-rated golfers, he noted.Trump said the US will not allow its cities to be threatened with destruction, and said that, while America “does not seek conflict or confrontation”, it will not run from it, either.“The regime has interpreted America's past restraint as weakness. This would be a fatal miscalculation,” Trump said.“This is a very different administration than the United States has had in the past.”NAMPA/AP

Trump issues warning to Pyongyang

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