State Dept: Trump speaking to North Korea "in the kind of language" it understands

Record ID: 905783

  • Title: State Dept: Trump speaking to North Korea "in the kind of language" it understands
  • Date: 9th August 2017
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (AUGUST 9, 2017) (STATE TV) STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESWOMAN HEATHER NAUERT WALKING UP TO PODIUM (SOUNDBITE) (English) STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESWOMAN HEATHER NAUERT, SAYING: "Whether it is the White House, the State Department or the Department of defense, we are speaking with one voice." And the world is in fact speaking with one voice. And we saw that with the UN Security Council with the resolution that passed." WIDE SHOT OF NAURET AT PODIUM (SOUNDBITE) (English) STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESWOMAN HEATHER NAUERT, SAYING: "Look, the President is sending a strong message to North Korea in the kind of language that North Korea understands. The Secretary has talked in the past about how the president is a very effective spokesman. People listen to him, and those were the President's words sending a message to North Korea, loud and clear." (SOUNDBITE) (English) REPORTER ANDREA MITCHELL OF NBC NEWS, SAYING: "Is it helpful or unhelpful for the President of the United States to use the kind of language we have seen previously coming from Kim Jung Un, not from Presidents’ of the United States. Is he exacerbating the problem?" (SOUNDBITE) (English) STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESWOMAN HEATHER NAUERT, SAYING: "The President spoke to him, to King Jung Un in language that Secretary Tillerson has said, and said this morning, in the kind of language that Kim Jung Un would understand." REPORTER AT STATE DEPARTMENT (SOUNDBITE) (English) STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESWOMAN HEATHER NAUERT, SAYING: "It was a good week for diplomacy. I know you all want to obsess over statements and all of that and try to make a lot of noise over all of that, but what is important to keep in mind that this diplomatic pressure at ASEAN at the meeting of the ten Asian nations along with the United States came to a joint agreement and a joint statement and put out a very strong condemnation of North Korea,. We are all singing from the same Hymn Book." (SOUNDBITE) (English) STATE DEPARTMENT REPORTER SAYING: "We are not obsessing about this. This is the President of the United States threatening a nuclear armed country, whether you want to accept it or not." WIDE SHOT OF NAUERT AT PODIUM
  • Embargoed: 23rd August 2017 20:13
  • Keywords: North Korea U.S. State Department Trump attack Guam UN Security Council sanctions
  • Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
  • City: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Government/Politics,International Trade
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016TFRWHZ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert on Wednesday (August 9) defended President Donald Trump's vow to respond with "fire and fury" if North Korea persisted in threatening the United States, saying Trump was speaking to North Korea "in the kind of language" that North Korean leader Kim Jung Un would understand.
    At a Tuesday discussion on the opioid crisis, Trump said: "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen."
    In response to two ICBM tests by Pyongyang last month, the U.N. Security Council passed its strongest set of sanctions yet against North Korea, slashing its annual export revenue by a third. Pyongyang warned it was ready to teach the United States a "severe lesson".
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