John Bolton accused North Korea’s recent tests of short-range missiles
of being a violation of UN Security Council resolutions, but on Monday
President Trump said he views the tests differently. Reporters are
asking the State Department to reconcile this into a single position.
State spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said that “the entire North Korean WMD program is in conflict with the UN Security Council resolutions,” saying that the US was focused on ending the WMD program.
The short range missile tests don’t appear to have had anything to do
with WMDs, as Trump pointed out. Bolton argued that they were ballistic
missiles, while the State Department said they have yet to announce if
they think they were ballistic missiles or not.
Though President Trump has made clear that he doesn’t consider the tests
a big deal at all, an doesn’t want to do anything about them, other US
officials seem keen to keep the topic up for discussion, and not endorse
the president’s position specifically.
Dapper Don seems to have trouble handling people not 100% reliant on him for a job. Here’s a crazy idea, Donald: if the guy is going rogue and undermining your message, fire him. The longer you let him linger, the more people will figure out that you’re either deliberately fostering chaos or that you have no clue what you’re doing (pretty much the same result either way.)
Ballistic missiles are NOT part of the deal and are necessary parts of defense. Bolton is a liar (what’s new?)
How about the US abstaining on some UN votes regarding the nuclear goliath in the Middle East – Israel, so that Israel will also be in violation of UN resolutions?
Errr…Israel’s nuclear weapons,if there are any,are not Israel’s.
US won’t vote against itself.