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After North Korea fired a ballistic missile that flew over Japan in August, Donald Trump said that he believed Japan should have destroyed the missile, asking leaders from Asian countries over the phone why a “nation of samurai warriors” was unable to shoot down North Korea’s missiles, according to a report by Japan’s Kyodo News wire service. The report of Trump’s bizarre question surfaced on Saturday as Trump prepared to land in Japan for his first official visit there.
Japan is the first stop on what is planned as a five-country, 13-day tour of Asia by Trump, a trip that, according to a CNN report, Trump hopes will distract attention from the firestorm surrounding the investigation into his 2016 presidential campaign’s links to Russia that resulted in the arrests of his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and a top adviser, Rick Gates, on October 30.