In their first and only meeting, President Obama explicitly warned Donald Trump days after the election about the urgency of North Korea’s nuclear weapons threat. “What Tsai Ing-wen knows about North Korea could fill a thimble. Yet it is the increasingly bellicose, often contradictory, rhetoric from Trump himself that has marked the sharpest shift in U.S. policy toward North Korea from previous administrations. Nobody is going to beat the North Koreans in a hyperbole contest.”Obama highlighted North Korea in his meeting with Trump two days after the election. “I felt pretty strongly that they had a tremendous power over North Korea.

Source: Washington Post August 09, 2017 22:30 UTC