Sen. Patty Murray took time during Wednesday’s stop at a veterans health facility in Vancouver to pan President Donald Trump’s recent comments to North Korea.
The isolated dictatorship has been working to develop nuclear missiles capable of reaching the United States. On Tuesday, Trump said that Kim Jong Un’s regime “had best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
“I’m concerned about the hot rhetoric put out by the president,” Sen. Murray, D-Wash., said during an interview after taking part in the grand opening of a new primary care clinic on Vancouver’s Veterans Affairs campus. “North Korea is an extremely dangerous country. We need to be wise in our approach.”
Murray cited two recent measures. Congress overwhelmingly passed a sanctions package in July that included financial sanctions against North Korea. And on Saturday, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved tough new economic sanctions against North Korea.
“If (Trump) wants to use rhetoric like that, he should see people at events like this who have served their country,” Murray said after touring the VA clinic. “Rhetoric like that will affect lives.”
