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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFortunately Trump can rely on steady advice from our Ambassador to South Korea
Perhaps he could put his phone down, stop the twitter feed every 15 minutes and actually govern, which would include appointing an Ambassador to South Korea.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnhudson/trump-hasnt-appointed-an-ambassador-to-korea-and-now-its-a?utm_term=.fiX20Q4pO#.rwRMKw7AG
Trump Hasn't Appointed An Ambassador To South Korea And Now Its A Big Problem
North Korea is threatening war, Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson are sending mixed signals, and theres no US ambassador in South Korea to straighten things out.
For months, national security experts have warned that the large number of unfilled positions at the State Department risked putting the United States in jeopardy in the event of a crisis. Now, with North Korea threatening war and a new US intelligence finding that Pyongyang has succeeded in miniaturizing a nuclear bomb, a crisis has arrived, and President Donald Trump has yet to name a US ambassador to South Korea.
The personnel gap comes amid confusing signals out of Washington at a time when one of Americas most important and vulnerable allies is seeking clarity and instruction.
The utility of having a Senate-confirmed diplomat in Seoul is especially important given the penchant of Trump and his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, to respond in markedly different ways to international events, experts said.
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The South Koreans are wondering why Japan, China, Singapore and other Asian countries have an ambassador in place, but they do not, said Bonnie Glaser, an Asia scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. There is no representative of the president in country to ensure smooth communications.
I have been to Student UN Workshops that were better organized than this government.
He could have simply kept all of President Obama's appointees in place until he had a replacement.
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Fortunately Trump can rely on steady advice from our Ambassador to South Korea (Original Post)
grantcart
Aug 2017
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leftstreet
(36,097 posts)1. Well, but...Dennis Rodman n/t
MiniMe
(21,707 posts)5. Rodman is into North Korea, not South Korea
He loves Kim Jung
underpants
(182,576 posts)2. We all knew this would come back to bite him (and us) in the ass
Those positions are there for a reason. It's as if Trump thinks that he gets to keep any money that isn't spent.
gademocrat7
(10,643 posts)3. He is a buffoon.
syringis
(5,101 posts)6. In the eye of the fatbutt fakident...
...with only one sentence, you just commited THE deadly sin :
He could have simply kept all of President Obama's appointees in place until he had a replacement.
Keep in mind that all what implies Obama, in a way or another, must be repealed, shredded, destroyed, burnt, reduced to ashes, no matter if it hurts the country inside or outside.