Angela Merkel on North Korea: ‘Escalating the rhetoric is the wrong answer’

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday split with President Trump on his tough rhetoric against North Korea, and said she believes such talk is the “wrong answer.”

“I think escalating the rhetoric is the wrong answer,” Merkel said Friday, according to the Associated Press.

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