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In stark UN speech, Trump threatens to “destroy” North Korea

By JONATHAN LEMIRE going to hell.” He made
DARLENE SUPERVILLE little mention of Russia.
Associated Press For all of that, he said there
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — was still hope the United
President Donald Trump Nations could solve “many
vowed Tuesday to “totally of these vicious and com-
destroy North Korea” if the plex problems.”
U.S. is forced to defend it- But he focused more on the
self or its allies against the problems than the hopes.
renegade nation’s nuclear His lashing of North Korea
weapons program, mak- was a vigorous restatement
ing his case in a combative of what’s been said by U.S.
debut speech to the U.N. leaders before, but deliv-
that laid out a stark, good- ered with new intensity in
vs-evil view of a globe riven the august setting of the
by chaos and turmoil. General Assembly.
Trump’s broadsides against After a litany of accusa-
“rogue regimes,” North tions — the starvation of
Korea chief among them, millions, the abduction of
drew murmurs from the as- a Japanese girl and more
sembled world leaders and — he questioned the le-
served as a searing salute gitimacy of the communist
to his nationalism during U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, government by referring to
diplomatic prime time. at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. it as a “band of criminals.”
He said it was “far past (AP Photo/Richard Drew) Despite the speech’s bom-
time” for the world to con- president at the rostrum Bashar Assad’s govern- He said violence-plagued bast, it signaled little in the
front Kim Jong Un, declar- of the United Nations, but ment a “criminal regime.” regions of the world “are way of policy change.q
ing that the North Korean the speech was textbook
leader’s pursuit of nuclear Trump, dividing the globe
weapons poses a threat to into friends and foes and
“the entire world with an taking unflinching aim at
unthinkable loss of human America’s enemies.
life.” “Rocket man is on a North Korea’s ambassador
suicide mission for himself and another top diplomat
and his regime,” Trump left the General Assembly
said, mocking the North chamber before he spoke
Korean leader even as he to boycott his speech,
sketched out potentially leaving behind two empty
cataclysmic consequenc- chairs.
es. The president himself The president urged na-
decided to work the nick- tions to work together to
name into his speech just stop Iran’s nuclear pro-
hours before he took the gram and defeat “loser ter-
dais, according to aides. rorists” who wage violence
Trump spoke of his own na- around the globe.
tion’s “patience,” but said He denounced “radical
that if “forced to defend it- Islamic terrorism,” an in-
self or its allies, we will have flammatory label he had
no choice but to totally de- shied away from in recent
stroy North Korea.” months after trumpeting
Trump’s overheated lan- it on the campaign trail.
guage was rare for a U.S. He called Syrian President

UN report: Near 40 million

in ‘modern slavery’ in 2016

GENEVA (AP) — U.N. agen- than seven in 10 people
cies and partners say some overall.
40 million people were Of the total, 25 million peo-
ensnared by modern slav- ple were victims of forced
ery last year, decrying a labor, and 15 million vic-
scourge that disproportion- tims of forced marriages.
ately affects women and A companion study from
girls. ILO found that 152 million
The new report by the U.N.’s children aged 5 to 17 were
labor organization, ILO, subject to child labor.
and the migration agency Authors say the data
IOM found that women came from face-to-face
and girls accounted for 29 interviews with more than
million of those affected by 71,000 people aged 15 or
modern slavery, or more older.q