President Barack Obama said Donald Trump's suggestion that Japan and South Korea should consider obtaining nuclear weapons demonstrates the Republican presidential front-runner's lack of understanding about foreign policy and the world at large.
"The person who made the statements doesn't know much about foreign policy or nuclear policy or the Korean Peninsula or the world generally," Obama said at a news conference at the close of the Nuclear Security Summit.
Obama described the U.S. nuclear umbrella for Japan and South Korea, in place of their own arsenals, as "one of the cornerstones of our presence in the Asia Pacific," which has provided the U.S. peace, prosperity and flowing commerce. "It has prevented the possibilities of a nuclear escalation and conflict," he added. "You don'tmess with that. It's an investment that rests on the sacrifices that our men and women made" in World War II. He concluded, "We don't want someone in the Oval Office who doesn't recognize how important that is."
Source: CNN
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