Nikki Haley Says Trump's Rocket Man Nickname 'Worked'
America's UN Ambassador Nikki hailey ambassador Haley thank you for joining
us this morning you've heard some of that reaction to the President's speech
yesterday especially those words about North Korea the people John quoted right
there the European foreign minister European Union's foreign minister said
we never talked about destroying countries how do you respond to that
well I think what you saw yesterday from the president was he was being honest I
know that you know people in countries don't want to hear it but here is a man
who continues to test ballistic missiles he continues to test now hydrogen bombs
he continues to threaten our allies he says he's going to destroy the United
States to ashes he says he's going to continue to send us gift packages to the
United States so if you want to talk about who's been giving the threats it's
certainly been the Kim regime what we are saying is we have exhausted every
diplomatic means and we are going to continue to do that while he is being
irresponsible we're going to be responsible but we've tried to do
dialogue we've now tried to do sanctions and the international community actually
very much appreciated the blunt honest approach that the president took on
North Korea as well as honoring the president also said that
denuclearization is the only acceptable outcome for North Korea so does that
mean that the United States is going to destroy North Korea's nuclear weapons if
Kim jong-un doesn't give them up what it means is he needs to stop he needs to
stop with the hydrogen bomb testing he needs to stop with the threats he needs
to stop with the ballistic but does he need to give up the way that we can
actually have a regular conversation does he need to give up the weapons yes
he does not need to be a nuclear power he has shown in every way why he would
be an irresponsible nuclear power and no one in the international community wants
to see that happen do you think it's appropriate to use a term like Rocket
Man to talk about a leader of another country who's got nuclear weapons well
I'll tell you George it worked I was talking to a president of an African
country yesterday and he actually cited Rocketman back to me so I will tell you
that look this is a way of like you know getting people to talk about him but
every other international community now is referring to him as Rocket Man and on
the issue of Iran the other the Iran nuclear agreement
is the president prepared to break that agreement even if our European allies
say we shouldn't I think the president's just looking at the situation and what
he sees is while the one part of the nuclear deal is what everybody seems to
talk about the other side of US law says that Iran is actually in violation of
ballistic missile testing of arms sales to terrorists and of support of
terrorists and so if you look at this we have to call out the wrongs that we see
if we don't call them out we will have another North Korea and so what he is
saying is everybody has to stop tiptoeing around Iran who they're all
worried is going to get out of the deal and acknowledge these harmful things
they're doing across the globe and call them out for it
ambassador hailey thanks for time this morning thanks so much
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