My boss is a bit unpredictable, he could invade North Korea!
DONALD Trump’s United Nations ambassador used the threat of the US invading North Korea to pass sanctions against the rogue state.
Nikki Haley told her Chinese counterpart that the US president was ‘kind of unpredictable’ as she sought votes in the UN Security Council.
Ms Haley said ‘I don’t know what he will do’ amid tensions between the US and North Korea in September 2017 that brought them to the brink of war.
The revealing comments from Ms Haley were made a week before her announcement on October 9 that she will leave the Trump cabinet at the end of the year.
She told a conference about the standoff between Mr Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Mr Trump called Jong-un ‘Little Rocket Man’ and he responded with a test launch of a missile which could hit the mainland US.
Tensions eased enough for the two to meet in June this year and recently Mr Trump said Jong-un ‘wrote me beautiful letters and we fell in love’.
Harper’s magazine said Ms Haley looked back to September 2 last year when North Korea had just launched its sixth nuclear test.
She told the Council for National Policy in Washington, a group of conservatives, that she was trying to secure abstentions from Russia and China on a UN Security Council vote to bring sanctions against the Communist nation, otherwise they would veto it.
Ms Haley said: ‘I said to the Russians, “Either you’re with North Korea or you’re with the United States of America”.’
Turning to the Chinese ambassador to the UN, she raised the prospect of a military invasion of North Korea.
Ms Haley said: ‘My boss is kind of unpredictable and I don’t know what he’ll do.’
A watered-down version of the sanctions was eventually passed after China vetoed an earlier one.
Ms Haley, former governor of South Carolina, said that when Mr Trump offered her the job as his UN ambassador she told him: ‘Honestly, I don’t even know what the UN does.’