President Trump was reportedly warned by top aides to not personally attack North Korea leader Kim Jong Un during his first speech to the United Nations this week, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Two U.S. officials told the Times that Trump’s threat to “totally destroy” North Korea, as well as his line mocking Kim as “Rocket Man” were not in a draft that officials reviewed the day before the speech.
[source : Aides warned Trump not to attack Kim Jong Un in UN speech: report, The Hill, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/351997-trump-aides-warned-him-not-to-attack-kim-jong-un-in-un-speech-report, 22nd September 2017]
But Rocket Man has climbed further into Trump's head. Trump used the phrase again at a rally in Alabama yesterday:
President Trump ripped past U.S. administrations' handling of North Korea on Friday, escalating his verbal feud with the country's leader Kim Jong Un by continuing to call him "Rocket Man" and "Little Rocket Man."
"Rocket man should have been handled a long time ago," Trump told a crowd of supporters in Alabama at a rally for Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.). He has started using the name "Rocket man" for North Korea's leader in the past week.
"We can't have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place," Trump said.
[source : Trump: North Korea's 'Little Rocket Man' should have been handled long ago, The Hill, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/352008-trump-rocket-man-should-have-been-handled-a-long-time-ago, 22nd September 2017]
So trump uses the phrase 'Rocket Man' against his aides' advice, that provokes Kim to begin plans for testing a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific, so Trump uses the phrase again?
Is Trump driving all this to provoke support for his plans for massive global military expansion? Or does he want war?
It seems odd that Kim Jong Un would be trying this on, but also that Donald "let's make a deal" Trump is going for the military expansion/aggression instead of the deal.
It's like this posturing suits them both at this time?
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