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Trump Downplays North Korea Missile Tests While His Own Adviser Warns They Broke the Rules
On a holiday weekend in Asia, Trump publicly brushed off North Korea’s latest missile launches as no big deal, even as his own national security adviser had just warned that the tests violated U.N. sanctions. The president then doubled down with a tweet that framed Kim Jong Un as a personal promise-keeper and dragged Joe Biden into the mix for no strategic reason other than sport. It was classic Trump: a national-security issue turned into a loyalty test and a campaign-side insult session. The mismatch between the president and his top aides handed critics an easy line of attack and made the administration look unserious about deterrence.