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Remarks by President Trump to the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly

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  1. documented
    Superseded · open corrected record

    Trump told the United Nations that if the United States were forced to defend itself or its allies, it would have no choice but to “totally destroy” North Korea.

    North Korea section

    Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea from the United Nations podium · superseded evidence record

  2. documented

    Trump told the United Nations that if the United States were forced to defend itself or its allies, it would have no choice but to “totally destroy” North Korea.

    North Korea section

    Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea from the United Nations podium · Trump issued the conditional ‘totally destroy’ threat on September 19, 2017

  3. documented

    The reviewed set contains two North Korea statements, dated August 8 and September 19, 2017, and two Iran statements, dated January 4 and April 22, 2020. Deduplicating their named state targets gives two states: North Korea and Iran.

    September 19, 2017: North Korea statement

    Iran and North Korea are named in four reviewed force threats from 2017 to 2020 · Retrospective count through the last statement in the reviewed set