Boris Johnson defends Donald Trump's rhetoric on North Korea missile tests

Foreign secretary backs US president in face of criticism from Labour and Lib Dems, while calling on China to ‘tighten the economic ligature’ Boris Johnson has defended Donald Trump’s response to North Korea’s nuclear threat, as Theresa May spoke to the US president on the phone about how to exert more economic pressure on the regime.The foreign secretary has faced repeated calls from Labour and the Liberal Democrats to distance the UK from Trump’s “utterly re