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. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert says that foreign diplomats have been "surprised" by President Trump's often blunt talk in an interview broadcast Sunday. Speaking to AM 970 The Answer, Nauert told host John Catsimatidis that other world leaders aren't used to plainspoken speeches like the one Trump gave at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. "I think some of the other nations are a little bit surprised by the president's plainspokenness," Nauert said in the interview. Nauert said, adding that Trump's "blunt talk" was helpful for dealing North Korea's nuclear aggression. The nation tested its sixth ballistic missile this month, firing a rocket over neighboring Japan into the Pacific Ocean. We will hold them to account." North Korea, Nauert said, is "starving" for cash in the face of increased U.N. sanctions passed earlier this month. "We saw that North Korea started to stock up on lots of supplies earlier this year," Nauert said. "To the extent that we can starve them, of money," she added, "they will start to feel the pinch."