My boss is a bit unpredictable... he could invade North Korea!
How did Trump’s UN ambassador win over China? By hinting:
‘I don’t know what he’ll do’
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 President was ‘kind of unpredictable’ as she sought votes in the Un Security Council.
Miss Haley said ‘I don’t know what he will do’ amid tensions between the US and north Korea in September 2017 that brought the world to the brink of war. The revealing comments from Miss 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 stand-off between Mr Trump and north Korean leader Kim Jongun. 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 cooled enough for the two to meet in June this year and recently Mr Trump said that Jong-un ‘wrote me beautiful letters and we fell in love’. Harper’s magazine said Miss 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 powerful 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.
Miss 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. Miss 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.
Miss Haley also revealed that she urged Mr Trump to remove the line calling Jong-un ‘Rocket Man’ from his maiden Un speech. She laughed as she recalled how she told the President: ‘This is the Un – it’s a little more formal of a setting than a campaign rally’.
Mr Trump insisted he would stick with the phrase and Miss Haley said: ‘okay, Mr President, you’re the boss.’ Hours after the speech, Miss Haley was meeting with president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, when he referred to Jong-un as ‘Rocket Man’ – proof for her that it was an effective label.
In other comments at the event, Miss Haley, a 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’.
The audience roared with laughter and Miss Haley said she finally decided to accept but with ‘conditions’.
She said: ‘I told the President I wanted to be a cabinet secretary. and he said, “I can do that”.
‘I said I wanted to serve on his national Security Council. “Done”.’ Then I said I’m not going to be a wallflower or a spokesperson.
‘I want to be able to have a decision-making role and give my advice on policy. and he said, “Done!”’