White House: North Korean claim that US has declared war is ‘absurd’

Published September 25, 2017 6:49pm ET



White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is dismissing North Korea’s assertion that President Trump’s comments at the United Nations last week and additional tweets amount to a “declaration of war.”

“We’ve not declared war on North Korea,” Sanders said during Monday’s White House press briefing. “Frankly, the suggestion of that is absurd.”

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