U.S. President Donald Trump again urged NATO allies in Europe to spend more on defence.
He also said that Washington was thinking about “severe things’’ in response to North Korea’s test-launch on Monday of an intercontinental ballistic missile with the potential to reach Alaska.
Trump told a joint news conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda, that it was “past time’’ for all countries in the alliance to “get going’’ on their financial obligations.
The White House had said that Trump would use the stopover in Warsaw to showcase his commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which he once called “obsolete’’ bemoaning allies’ repeated failure to spend the recommended two per cent of GDP on defence.
He had unnerved allies in May, not least those in the east concerned about Russia’s more assertive military…
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