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Post by Admin on Dec 24, 2019 18:38:06 GMT
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that North Korea’s cryptic “Christmas gift” to the U.S. may be a “beautiful vase” — rather than a missile test, as some experts fear.
Trump, speaking to reporters after finishing a Christmas Eve video call with U.S. troops from his Palm Beach club, Mar-a-Lago, joked about the nuclear-armed dictatorship’s rhetoric even with the threat of a long-range missile test looming over the apparent tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.
“We’ll see what happens,” Trump said when asked what he would do if North Korean leader Kim Jong Un does decide to test a new long-range projectile.
“Maybe it’s a nice present. Maybe it’s a present where he sends me a beautiful vase as opposed to a missile test,” he said. “I may get a vase. I may get a nice present from him. You don’t know. You never know.”
Ri Thae Song, North Korea’s vice minister of foreign affairs in charge of U.S. affairs, said Dec. 3 that the U.S. “year-end limit” was drawing near, and “it is entirely up to the U.S. what Christmas gift it will select to get,” according to the Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA.
It was not clear what the “limit” was referring to. But Kim had said in an April speech that he would wait until the end of this year for the Trump administration to change its approach to denuclearization talks with Pyongyang.
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Post by Admin on Dec 25, 2019 2:25:49 GMT
Donald Trump said he was 'still working' on a Christmas present for his wife Melania Trump during a press conference during which he spoke to US military personnel to wish them happy Christmas.
The US president also said that he would be ready for any 'surprise' from North Korea and directed harsh criticism toward the speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.
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Post by Admin on Dec 26, 2019 1:44:00 GMT
The United States flew four surveillance planes over the Korean peninsula Wednesday, according to an aviation tracker, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported. The move comes after North Korea threatened to give Washington a “Christmas gift” unless the U.S. makes concessions in nuclear talks with the country. Negotiations between U.S. and North Korean officials stalled earlier this year after a summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ended abruptly. The U.S. flew four aircraft, the RC-135W Rivet Joint, E-8C, RQ-4 Global Hawk and RC-135S Cobra Ball, over the country between Tuesday and early Wednesday. The planes were believed to have carried out missions in and around the Korean Peninsula, Yonhap reported.
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2020 17:51:43 GMT
“The image is a hodgepodge of anti-Muslim tropes and garb from many traditions including some that are frequently used to stereotype and attack Muslims,” Madihha Ahussain, special counsel for Muslim Advocates, a not-for-profit group, said in a statement. “It’s disappointing but not surprising that the president would use his massive Twitter platform to spread this kind of harmful, ignorant, anti-Muslim bigotry.” Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or Cair, said Trump’s retweet of a “childish, undignified and offensive … Islamophobic image … further endangers American Muslims, Sikhs and members of other faiths who wear recognisable religious attire and are increasingly targeted by bigots nationwide.” Trump retweeted the image on Monday, amid continuing controversy and international fallout over his approval of the drone strike assassination of Gen Qassem Suleimani, a top Iranian leader.
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Post by Admin on Feb 12, 2020 19:56:39 GMT
President Trump held a rally in Concord on the eve of the New Hampshire primary to take the spotlight off Democrats and get out some important messages about family and health. #Monologue #Comedy #Colbert
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