“TRUMP PACKS A PUNCH AGAINST NORTH KOREA AS HE EMBARKS ON ASIA TOUR”

- Gillian Turner, The Hill

Fox News contributor Gillian Turner writes in The Hill the President’s twelve day, five country Asia trip is a “vehicle for President Trump to deliver a stark message about U.S. military capability and preparedness,” to “arguably an audience of one” in Pyongyang, North Korea. Turner comments the President’s visit to Pearl Harbor “underscored this reality quite clearly,” as did his visit to the U.S. Pacific Command: “an inherently powerful symbol of American military prowess” appropriate for communicating “a message that needed to penetrate a regime 5,000 miles away.”
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