Then-President Donald Trump considered nuking North Korea during closed-door discussions in 2017 and pinning the blame on another country, according a book about the administration.
Then-President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their summit on the border separating the Koreas on June 30, 2019.Then-President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un greet each other during their summit on June 30, 2019, in South Korea.that September, Trump vowed to “totally destroy” North Korea if Kim persisted with military threats.
“[B]ehind closed doors in the Oval Office, Trump continued to talk as if he wanted to go to war,” Schmidt writes. “He cavalierly discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea, saying that if he took such an action, the administration could blame someone else for it to absolve itself of responsibility.”
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