Keylor in the Boston Herald on Trump’s N. Korea Comments
William Keylor, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on United States President Donald Trump’s first speech before the United Nations General Assembly, and Trump’s comments during his speech on North Korea.
Keylor was interviewed for a September 20, 2017 article in The Boston Herald entitled “Donald Trump Blasts ‘Rocket Man’ at United Nations.”
From the text of the article:
The last time such drama played out in the UN was when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was said to have banged his shoe on a table in 1960, according to William Keylor, an international relations and history professor at the Pardee School at Boston University.
“I cannot recall a time when a leader used a sort of name like ‘Rocket Man’ to refer to a particular political leader,” said Keylor. “Certainly there’s been a lot of criticism over the years in the UN, but by singling him out and using a kind of epithet to insult him, that’s a first, I think.”
Keylor added that Trump may have left himself exposed to criticism if Kim thumbs his nose at the president by continuing missile tests.
“If it turns out that his fiery rhetoric does not lead to a freeze of North Korea’s nuclear activities, then that’s going to be a black mark against him,” said Keylor. “It’ll look as though it was nothing but rhetoric.”
Keylor served four consecutive terms as Chairman of the Department of History at Boston University (1988-2000) and has been Director of the International History Institute since 1999. At Boston University, he has received the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Methodist Scholar-Teacher Award.