Full story: Trump threatens to `totally destroy´ North Korea in UN speechAnalysis: A blunt, fearful rant - Trump´s UN speech left presidential norms in the dustOpinion: Trump is conflating Pyongyang with Tehran. The results could be catastrophic 8.58pm BST As the world´s diplomats prepare for a long night of speeches, we´re going to wrap things up for today. The highlights from today´s morning session: o UN secretary general António Guterres, who took over the international body´s top job in January, began the day by lamenting divisive political discourse and appealing for calmer rhetoric. 8.48pm BST For better or for worse, it now appears that on the question of Iran - a long term obsession of Netanyahu - Trump and the Israeli prime minister are completely joined at the hip. For the Israeli prime minister, that certainly helps reinforce his standing on the domestic front, but how much it will help him in persuading other members of the international community, especially co-signatories of the Iran nuclear deal who still support it, is more questionable.The optics in the region of a US president delivering a speech that could have been written by the Israeli embassy, and Netanyahu´s celebration of that speech, may have unanticipated consequences. Israel may also regret associating itself in the future so closely with such a bellicose and contradictory speech by Trump.Israel needed many long years to refute the allegation that, together with its neo-conservative lackeys in Washington, it pushed George W. Bush into the war with Iraq, and this at a time when, unlike Netanyahu, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon maintained a low public profile. If there is a sudden and serious deterioration in relations between Washington and Tehran over the next few weeks, Israel will be hard-pressed to deny that this is what it wanted to achieve all along. When things get complicated, as they always do, it will be easy to point an accusatory finger at Netanyahu and his country. 8. ...
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