Former prime minister John Howard has defended the often bombastic Twitter diplomacy of US President Donald Trump amid heightened tensions over North Korea.
Mr Howard, speaking to reporters at Old Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday, said he was glad Mr Trump had expressed his view that Kim Jong Un's decision to postpone a nuclear strike on the US territory of Guam was 'wise'.
"We've got to understand the principal elevator of the temperature has been the North Korean president and not the American president. This idea that somehow or other there's an equivalence is ridiculous," Mr Howard said.
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