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US president’s national assembly speech was
uncompromising and dark, but it also offered a ‘brighter path’ to Kim Jong-un
as well as slipping in a plug for his golf course
US
president Donald Trump speaks at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea.
US president Donald Trump speaks at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea. Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun
Wednesday 8 November 2017 04.55 GMT Last
modified on Wednesday 8 November 2017 04.57 GMT
The key passages from Donald Trump’s speech
to the South Korean assembly.
The terror of the North
North Korean women are forced to abort
babies that are considered ethnically inferior. And if these babies are born,
the newborns are murdered. One woman’s baby born to a Chinese father was taken
away in a bucket. The guards said it did not “deserve to live because it was
impure.” So why would China feel an obligation to help North Korea?
And so, on this peninsula, we have watched
the results of a tragic experiment in a laboratory of history. It is a tale of
one people, but two Koreas. One Korea in which the people took control of their
lives and their country, and chose a future of freedom and justice, of
civilization, and incredible achievement. And another Korea in which leaders
imprison their people under the banner of tyranny, fascism, and oppression. The
result of this experiment are in, and they are totally conclusive.
It is a cult
North Korea is a country ruled as a cult.
At the center of this military cult is a deranged belief in the leader’s
destiny to rule as parent protector over a conquered Korean Peninsula and an
enslaved Korean people. The more successful South Korea becomes, the more
decisively you discredit the dark fantasy at the heart of the Kim regime. In
this way, the very existence of a thriving South Korean republic threatens the
very survival of the North Korean dictatorship.
This reality – this wonderful place – your
success is the greatest cause of anxiety, alarm, and even panic to the North
Korean regime. That is why the Kim regime seeks conflict abroad – to distract
from total failure that they suffer at home.
We won’t let you have the bomb
All the while, the regime has pursued
nuclear weapons with the deluded hope that it could blackmail its way to the
ultimate objective. And that objective we are not going to let it have. We are
not going to let it have. All of Korea is under that spell, divided in half.
South Korea will never allow what’s going on in North Korea to continue to
happen.
Don’t try us
To this day, it continues to launch
missiles over the sovereign territory of Japan and all other neighbors, test
nuclear devices, and develop ICBMs to threaten the United States itself. The
regime has interpreted America’s past restraint as weakness. This would be a
fatal miscalculation. This is a very different administration than the United
States has had in the past.
Today, I hope I speak not only for our
countries, but for all civilized nations, when I say to the North: Do not
underestimate us, and do not try us. We will defend our common security, our
shared prosperity, and our sacred liberty.
America will fight back
America does not seek conflict or
confrontation, but we will never run from it. History is filled with discarded
regimes that have foolishly tested America’s resolve.
Anyone who doubts the strength or
determination of the United States should look to our past, and you will doubt
it no longer. We will not permit America or our allies to be blackmailed or
attacked. We will not allow American cities to be threatened with destruction.
We will not be intimidated. And we will not let the worst atrocities in history
be repeated here, on this ground, we fought and died so hard to secure.
Russia and China must help
All responsible nations must join forces to
isolate the brutal regime of North Korea – to deny it and any form – any form
of it. You cannot support, you cannot supply, you cannot accept. We call on every
nation, including China and Russia, to fully implement UN Security Council
resolutions, downgrade diplomatic relations with the regime, and sever all ties
of trade and technology.
It is our responsibility and our duty to
confront this danger together – because the longer we wait, the greater the
danger grows, and the fewer the options become. And to those nations that
choose to ignore this threat, or, worse still, to enable it, the weight of this
crisis is on your conscience.
I’m talking to you Kim
I also have come here to this peninsula to
deliver a message directly to the leader of the North Korean dictatorship: the
weapons you are acquiring are not making you safer. They are putting your
regime in grave danger. Every step you take down this dark path increases the
peril you face.
North Korea is not the paradise your
grandfather envisioned. It is a hell that no person deserves. Yet, despite
every crime you have committed against God and man, you are ready to offer, and
we will do that – we will offer a path to a much better future. It begins with
an end to the aggression of your regime, a stop to your development of
ballistic missiles, and complete, verifiable, and total denuclearization.
A brighter path
A sky-top view of this peninsula shows a
nation of dazzling light in the South and a mass of impenetrable darkness in
the North. We seek a future of light, prosperity, and peace. But we are only
prepared to discuss this brighter path for North Korea if its leaders cease
their threats and dismantle their nuclear program.
Ps: my golf course
Korean golfers are some of the best on Earth. In fact – and you know what I’m going to say – the Women’s US Open was held this year at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and it just happened to be won by a great Korean golfer, Sung-hyun Park.
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