“Do you know what former US President Donald Trump did to Otto Warmbier’s parents? He said: “Kim Jong-un (chairman of North Korea’s State Affairs Committee) was unaware of Warmbier’s torture by North Korea.” “I heard Kim Jong-un say it in ‘Love Letter’.”
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley’s campaign rally was held in Neshua, New Hampshire, United States on the 20th (local time). When former Ambassador Haley said this while mentioning Warmbier, an American college student who was detained in North Korea for 17 months and died six months after being repatriated to the United States in 2017, the audience said, “Oh my God…” “A sigh broke out. Former Ambassador Haley raised her voice in targeting former President Trump, saying, “We should not be friends with dictators and bullies when the world is engulfed in the embers of war.”
Former Ambassador Haley directly criticized former President Trump’s policy toward North Korea at three campaign rallies that day. The New Hampshire primary, which will be held on the 23rd, is the gateway to determining whether former President Trump will indeed be confirmed as the Republican presidential nominee. In this situation, former Ambassador Haley cited the so-called “bromance” between former President Trump and Chairman Kim as a winning move to attack.
● Targeting the “bromance” between Trump and Kim Jong-un
Former Ambassador Haley devoted about 10 minutes of her 30-minute speech at this day’s rally to foreign policy, taking aim at former President Trump. Former Ambassador Haley said: “Europe and the Middle East are at war, North Korea is testing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can hit the US mainland, and China is marching (to war )”. She continued: “When the United States is divided and the entire world is engulfed in the embers of war, the presidency of the United States can no longer be a game.”
He also criticized former President Trump for flaunting his personal letter to Chairman Kim, saying: “Do you know how difficult it must have been for Warmbier’s parents to hear the President of the United States say that he ‘wrote a love letter’ to the person who tortured them?” son?”, he did. At a campaign rally in Peterboro this afternoon, he said: “Trump praised Xi Jinping (Chinese President) more than a dozen times even after China spread the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) ,” and then met with reporters, saying, “Trump has a relationship with dictators.” “I’m obsessed with it,” he said.
In response to former Ambassador Haley’s offensive, former President Trump did not mention Chairman Kim, President Xi or Russian President Vladimir Putin at a rally in Manchester this afternoon. As for North Korea, he said only: “Until three years ago, Iran, China, Russia and North Korea had been repressed.” Former President Trump mentioned his close relationship with Chairman Kim at every campaign rally, saying, “(If I were president) Kim Jong-un would not have threatened the United States,” during the previous day’s campaign rally.
● North Korea and Kim Jong-un emerge as issues in Republican primaries
The bromance between former President Trump and Chairman Kim is expected to emerge as an issue in Republican primaries, including the New Hampshire primary. Haley’s camp announced it will air a three-minute television ad featuring a speech of support from Warmbier’s mother, Cindy Warmbier, starting on the 22nd, the day before the primary.
It is being interpreted as a strategy to garner anti-Trump votes by taking advantage of his position as ambassador to the United Nations in New Hampshire, which leans more moderate than Iowa, where former President Trump won a landslide victory. In a Suffolk University opinion poll released today, former President Trump had an approval rating of 53%, ahead of former Ambassador Haley (36%) by 17 percentage points. The gap widened by 2 percentage points compared to the same survey on the 18th.
Some analysts argue that the New Hampshire primaries are leading to a clash between the isolationist line of former President Trump, who supported “America First”, and the interventionist line that values America’s global leadership. The New York Times (NYT) said: “Former Ambassador Haley will appeal to voters with past Republican policies who have supported the United States in becoming a leader in global diplomacy” and “New Hampshire primary will show the flight of the Republican Party from Trump’s isolationism. “We’ll decide if we can find him,” he analyzed.
Neshua/Manchester = correspondent Byeong-gi Moon [email protected]
2024-01-21 08:10:00
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