{"id":128839,"date":"2017-11-06T04:41:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T09:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=128839"},"modified":"2025-01-16T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T23:30:12","slug":"trump-stands-with-japan-denounces-north-korean-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/06\/trump-stands-with-japan-denounces-north-korean-aggression\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump stands with Japan, denounces North Korean aggression"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TOKYO\u2014 President Donald\u00a0Trump\u00a0ratcheted up the pressure on North Korea Monday, refusing to rule out eventual military action and declaring that the United States \u201cwill not stand\u201d for Pyongyang menacing America or its Asian allies.<\/p>\n

Trump, on the first stop of his lengthy Asia trip, denounced North Korea as \u201ca threat to the civilized world,\u201d and exhorted dictator Kim Jong Un to cease weapons testing like the missiles he has fired over Japanese territory in recent weeks. Though he stood in one of the Asia capitals in range of North Korea’s missiles,\u00a0Trump\u00a0did not modulate his fiery language, declaring that Pyongyang imperiled \u201cinternational peace and stability.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people say my rhetoric is very strong but look what has happened with very weak rhetoric in the last 25 years,\u201d said\u00a0Trump, who stood with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a Monday news conference.<\/p>\n

Abe, who has taken a more hawkish view on North Korea than some of his predecessors, agreed with\u00a0Trump’s assessment that \u201call options are on the table\u201d when dealing with Kim Jong Un and announced new sanctions against several dozen North Korea individuals. The two men also put a face on the threat posed by the North, earlier standing with anguished families of Japanese citizens snatched by Pyongyang’s agents.<\/p>\n

Trump\u00a0and first lady Melania\u00a0Trump\u00a0stood with nearly two dozen relatives, some of whom held photos of the missing. Seeking to increase pressure on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un,\u00a0Trump\u00a0pledged to work to return the missing to their families, saying \u201cit’s a very, very sad number of stories that we’ve heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

North Korea has acknowledged apprehending 13 Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s, but claims they all died or have been released. But in Japan, where grieving relatives of the abducted have become a symbol of heartbreak on the scale of American POW families, the government insists many more were taken and that some may still be alive.<\/p>\n

Trump\u00a0has delivered harsh denunciations of Kim, belittling him as \u201cLittle Rocket Man\u201d but suggested that it would be \u201ca tremendous signal\u201d if North Korea returned the captives.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0Trump’s message on the second day of his five-country Asian tour was overshadowed by another tragic shooting back home.<\/p>\n

Trump\u00a0called the Texas church shooting that claimed at least 26 lives \u201can act of evil,\u201d denounced the violence in \u201ca place of sacred worship\u201d and pledged the full support of the federal government. He later suggested that the shooter had mental health issues and waved off a question about gun control, saying of the massacre, \u201cthis isn’t a guns situation.<\/p>\n

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\u201d<\/p>\n

Though\u00a0Trump\u00a0and Abe repeatedly touted their friendship, looming disagreements on trade could strain the friendship.<\/p>\n

Trump\u00a0complained Monday that Japan had been \u201cwinning\u201d for decades and rebuked the current relationship, saying the trade deals were \u201cnot fair and not open.\u201d He told a group of American and Japanese business leaders: the United States was open for business, but he wanted to reshape the nations’ trade relationship, though he did not say how he would cut the trade deficit with Japan, which totalled nearly $70 billion last year.<\/p>\n

He also downplayed the potentially contentious nature of the negotiations, though the Japanese government has not shown much appetite for striking a new bilateral trade agreement. Tokyo had pushed to preserve the Trans- Pacific Partnership, which\u00a0Trump\u00a0has abandoned.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will have more trade than anybody ever thought under TPP.<\/p>\n

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That I can tell you,\u201d\u00a0Trump\u00a0said. He said the multinational agreement was not the right deal for the United States and that while \u201cprobably some of you in this room disagree … ultimately I’ll be proven to be right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abe, for his part, publicly deflected questions about trade.<\/p>\n

Trump\u00a0also pushed Japan to buy more American military equipment after Abe was asked at the news conference about a local news report that\u00a0Trump\u00a0was disappointed that Japan had not shot North Korean missiles out of the sky.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will shoot ’em out of the sky when he completes the purchase of lots of additional military equipment from the United States,\u201d\u00a0Trump\u00a0interrupted.<\/p>\n

Japan’s constitution was revised after World War II to include a clause renouncing war and the country only spends about one per cent of its GDP on defence, though Abe has slowly tried to remove some of its pacifist constraints.<\/p>\n

Japan orchestrated a lavish formal welcome for the Trumps, complete with military honour guard and an audience with Japan’s Emperor Akihito and his wife, Empress Michiko, at the Imperial Palace.<\/p>\n

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As part of the pageantry,\u00a0Trump\u00a0and Abe took part in a traditional feeding of koi in a pond Monday. At first, both leaders spooned out small amounts of feed into the pond below. Abe then lightly tossed the remainder of his box into the pond below, while\u00a0Trump\u00a0more theatrically dumped the rest of his box down to the fish.<\/p>\n

Abe laughed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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