Donald Trump once said that he wanted to share a hamburger with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. Now that he’s President, fast food diplomacy looks to be off the menu. Instead, the tough talk has started and Trump has used an interview with the FT today to warn that America will act against North Korea unless China clamps down on the regime in Pyongyang. He said:
‘Well, if China is not going to solve North Korea, we will. That is all I am telling you’
That Trump has singled out North Korea is no accident, nor is it much of a surprise. In the weeks after the election, the outgoing Obama administration warned Trump’s team that it considered the threat posed by Kim Jong Un to be America’s top national security priority. In many ways, Trump has sought to distance himself from his predecessors.
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