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| US President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin on September 17, 2020. (Photo by=Reuters) |
[Asia News Communication = Reporter Reakkana] U.S. President Donald Trump left out North Korea in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, marking the first time he has not mentioned the communist state in his four U.N. speeches.
In his about seven-minute speech, the U.S. president talked about COVID-19 pandemic and issues facing the U.S. and the world but didn’t mention North Korea on stalled nuclear talks. It was the first time that Trump didn’t mention the North in a U.N. General Assembly address since taking office in 2017. Earlier this year, he also didn’t mention the communist nation in his annual State of the Union address.
In his first U.N. General Assembly speech in 2017, Trump warned the North of "total destruction" and called leader Kim Jong-un a rocket man amid heightened tensions in the wake of the North's sixth and last nuclear test earlier that month. Despite not mentioning North Korea, Trump has daily recalled his meetings with the North Korean leader on his recent campaign trail, taking credit for preventing what he claims to have been an imminent war with the North. Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., praised Trump for his engagement with the North and its leader.(Yonhap)
