Trudeau supports Trump’s Korea talks

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is cheering Donald Trump’s bid to broker a deal to rid the Korean Peninsula of nuclear weapons, but he’s keeping mum on the U.S. president’s persistent trash talk against Canada.

The Liberal government is looking forward to seeing the details of the agreement that emerged from Monday’s historic meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trudeau said Tuesday.

“We support the continuing efforts by the president on North Korea, (and) we look forward to looking at the details of the agreement,” Trudeau said. “On (Trump’s) comments, I’m going to stay focused on defending jobs for Canadians and supporting Canadian interests.”

Trump told a lengthy news conference in Singapore that Trudeau’s assertion that Canada “will not be pushed around” will end up costing Canadians “a lot of money.”

Among the many topics that came up was Trump’s recent Twitter campaign against Trudeau, whom he has called “dishonest” and “weak.”

Those comments came after Trudeau’s closing news conference at the G7 summit in Quebec on Saturday, when the prime minister said he pushed back against the Trump administration’s hefty tariffs on steel and aluminum.

Trump says he watched that news conference, and was upset because he thought he and Trudeau had a positive meeting in Charlevoix.