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- Critics have attacked Trump after North Korea released footage of the US President saluting a North Korean general.
- The White House has defended his actions, arguing that it was a “common courtesy” and he was simply returning a salute from the general.
- One retired US major general said: “It is wholly inappropriate for the commander in chief of our armed forces to salute the military of our adversary.”
The White House is defending President Donald Trump’s decision to return a military salute to a North Korean three-star general as a “common courtesy.”
Presidential spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday that “It’s a common courtesy when a military official from another government salutes, that you return that.”See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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