U.S. President Donald Trump told world leaders in his first address to the United Nations that they must confront a handful of “rogue regimes,” singling out North Korea and vowing that if the dispute over its nuclear program leads to war, the country would be destroyed.“No nation on Earth has an interest in seeing this band of criminals arm itself with nuclear weapons and missiles,” Trump said of North Korea, calling it a “depraved regime.”If the dispute over its weapons programs leads to war, Trump said, ”we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”Read the latest news on U.S. President Donald Trump“Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime,” Trump said, in a disparaging reference to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The country’s foreign minister sat directly in front of the podium from which Trump spoke.Trump emphasized that the peril posed by North Korea’s and Iran’s weapons programs is too great for any country to remain on the sidelines.The president communicated the depth of his determination to challenge both nations. Trump sees the speech as a moment of enormous opportunity to rally the world to rein in North Korea and Iran’s weapons programs.Read more: Trump, in UN debut, urges world body to focus ‘more on people and less on bureaucracy’Trudeau to receive global citizenship award, address UN General Assembly in New YorkAs Trump mocks Kim Jong Un as ‘Rocket Man,’ U.S. advisers warn North Korea to end weapons program or face attackTrump’s debut at the UN is his most consequential moment yet on the global diplomatic stage, with more at stake than at the two economic summits he attended in Europe earlier this year. Trump is set to speak in the morning following UN Secretary-General António Guterres, General Assembly President Miroslav Lajčák and Brazil’s President Miche ...
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