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DONALD TRUMP pressed Japan to buy anti-missile systems yesterday to counter North Korea’s “threat to the civilised world.”
Speaking at a press conference in Tokyo, the US president and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed “all options are on the table” over Pyongyang’s recent nuclear and missile tests, one of which flew over Japan.
When Mr Abe was asked why that ballistic missile was not shot down, Mr Trump butted in to say: “He will shoot ’em out of the sky when he completes the purchase of lots of additional military equipment from the United States.”
In Washington, the willingness to accept an open war with Russia is growing — at Europe’s expense. While Nato states are being drawn into confrontation, Europe risks becoming the battlefield of a potential world war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
