Obama slams Trump comments on nuclear weapons

President Obama
(Image credit: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Speaking at the end of the Nuclear Security Summit on Friday, President Obama criticized Donald Trump's suggestion that Japan and South Korea should obtain nuclear weapons, CNN reports.

"The person who made the statements doesn't know much about foreign policy or nuclear policy or the Korean Peninsula or the world, generally," he said.

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up
Explore More
Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.