President Trump will address the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. A source informed about his remarks shared a word on his theme: "Sovereignty".
The big picture: "Mutual respect and sovereignty" will be its framework of cooperation with other countries, another source with direct knowledge of his remarks told me. He will speak about the reform of international trade, added this source.
With John Bolton as National Security Advisor – a man who has fought for decades against international institutions that he says is encroaching on American sovereignty – Trump will have plenty of material for such a speech.
- In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly last year, Trump called Kim Jong-un "Rocket Man" and said that the United States had "no choice but to totally destroy North Korea".
- Foreign officials were shocked. They had never heard such incendiary rhetoric from an American president. And Trump liked the headlines.
- "So, you will have to ask yourself what will be the objective this time, against whom it will be unleashed," said a Washington diplomat.
On North Korea: According to a source who spoke of North Korea with Trump this week, Trump feels good with the latest developments and is "very happy" with the latest letter that he received from dictator Kim Jong-un.
- But the hawks fear that Trump will concede too much to North Korea before Kim completely and irreversibly denuclearizes the Korean peninsula.
Senator Lindsey Graham, who is close to Trump, said: "Here's what worries me: the letters that Kim Jong-un sends to Trump are good .It's good to keep the dialogue in. But the letters and behaviors do not match.
- "I am very worried about President Moon [of South Korea], which I think is President Obama of Asia, putting President Trump in a bad position. "
- "The last thing you want to happen is lose control of the negotiations. I do not know how much Moon is working here freelance … but the worst possible result is that we were talking about ending the Korean War with a peace treaty before they had a program to give up their nuclear weapons. "
- "It's what they want the most, end the war, have normal relations, have security deals, but all of this happens in the end, not in the middle."
