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President Trump delivered his second address to the United Nations General Assembly, a year after threatening North Korea with “fire and fury.”
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President Trump, whose apocalyptic speech in his United Nations debut last year riveted much of the world’s attention, spoke again on the world’s most important diplomatic stage on Tuesday, at the organization’s New York headquarters.
Mr. Trump has alienated allies and sidled up to adversaries, all while he pursues an America First agenda. Unlike in 2017, however, when Mr. Trump threatened to annihilate North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong-un, he touted his budding friendship with Mr. Kim — even though there has been little progress in their underlying dispute over North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missiles.
[Read our article on why Mr. Trump’s aides feared he might be too nice at this year’s General Assembly.]
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain and President Hassan Rouhani of Iran were also scheduled to speak on Tuesday.
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