Trump called for Seoul evacuation at height of North Korea tensions

[soryang]

Trump called for Seoul evacuation at height of North Korea tensions, new book says
President’s diktat was ignored by his top officials, Peter Bergen writes in Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos

The Guardian Julian Borger Dec 9

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/09/trump-seoul-evacuation-north-korea-book

Donald Trump called for the population of Seoul to be moved during an Oval Office meeting when tensions between the US and North Korea were at their height, according to a new book about the president’s relations with the US military.

In Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos, the national security and counter-terrorism expert Peter Bergen also gives new details of Trump’s demands that the families of US service members in South Korea be evacuated, which the North Korean regime would have interpreted as a clear move towards war. In both cases, Trump’s impetuous diktats were ignored by his top officials.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I wonder where he thought the ten million (thereabouts) people of Seoul would go?

Has he built enough Trump hotels in that part of the world to accommodate them all?

[BKDem]

3. He doesn't give a damn where they go.

Or they can stay and be nuked. It's all the same to him. The important thing is to show Kim Jong Un who's the boss.

Donald Trump, world's greatest genius tough guy.

[Midnightwalk]

2. 9.7 million people

And where would they go?

What a dangerous idiot

[Lowell]

4. Stunning ignorance

he is out of touch with reality.

[keithbvadu2]

5. "Evacuation" - That's how the master negotiator figures to earn his Nobel Peace Medal.

"Evacuation" - That's how the master negotiator figures to earn his Nobel Peace Medal.