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| Washington Post Associate Editor Bob Woodward's new book 'Rage' is based in part on hours of recorded conversation with US President Donald Trump (Photo by: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE) |
[Asia News Communication = Reporter Reakkana] North Korea would find itself in trouble "bigger than anybody's ever had before" if it resumes long-range missile tests, U.S. President Donald Trump was quoted as saying in a soon-to-be-published book.
In his upcoming book, "Rage," Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward said Trump made the remark in one of their 18 interviews held between December and July, though Trump dismissed short-range missile launches as no big deal."(Kim Jong-un) has tested short-range missiles. Which, by the way, every country has short-range missiles. There's no country that doesn't have them. Okay? It's not a big deal," Trump was quoted as saying. "That doesn't mean after January he's not going to be doing something," Trump told Woodward, according to excerpts of the book obtained by Yonhap News Agency "If he shoots, he shoots. And then he's got big problems. Big, big problems. Bigger than anybody's ever had before."
It’s unclear when the remark was made, but North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said during a key party meeting held on the eve of New Year's Day that he was no longer bound by his earlier pledges not to stage nuclear or intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests. The communist state had since kept a moratorium on nuclear and weapons testing. Its withdrawal in late 2019.
