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[Jacque67 7,328]

Got through after non-T first post!!!

[Jacque67 7,328]

Mar-a-Lago's wealthy members looked on from their tables, and with a keyboard player crooning in the background, Trump and Abe's evening meal quickly morphed into a strategy session, the decision-making on full view to fellow diners, who described it in detail to CNN.

News of Pyongyang's launch had emerged an hour earlier, as Trump was preparing for dinner in his residence. Officials had concluded the Musudan-level missile flew 310 miles off North Korea's eastern coast before crashing into the Sea of Japan.

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For the new commander in chief, the launch was his first brush with the hermit regime's saber-rattling, which along with heated rhetoric from the young leader Kim Jong-un has spooked the country's neighbors. During his pre-election intelligence briefings, Trump requested supplemental information about North Korea from US intelligence officials. National security analysts have identified the nation's nuclear program as one of the imminent threats facing Trump as he begins his tenure in the White House.

In his talks with Abe at the White House on Friday, the North Korea threat weighed heavily. Abe said during a concluding news conference that he and Trump had agreed to "strongly demand" the country "abandon (its) nuclear and ballistic missile program." They departed a short time later for Florida.

On Saturday evening, as the two men walked through Mar-a-Lago's ornate wrought-iron doors on their way to dinner, neither responded to questions about the launch from reporters.

Swanning through the club's living room and main dining area alongside Abe, Trump was -- as is now typical -- swarmed with paying members, who now view dinner at the club as an opportunity for a few seconds of face time with the new President.

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/12/politics/trump-shinzo-abe-mar-a-lago-north-korea/

 

iceberg wedge salad????

great concern for national security????

#pimpingyabiz#grifters!!!!

[CaliCat 3,957]

2 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/12/politics/trump-shinzo-abe-mar-a-lago-north-korea/

 

iceberg wedge salad????

great concern for national security????

#pimpingyabiz#grifters!!!!

 

You can see the Japanese PM trying to keep a straight face behind Trump.

[yuna628 9,873]

What he did to the PM of Japan was insulting.