PYONGYANG, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called U.S. President Donald Trump “deranged” and said in a statement carried by the state news agency that he will “pay dearly” for his threats. Kim said that Trump is “unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country.” He also described the president as “a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire.” “I will make the man holding the prerogative of the supreme command in the U.S. pay dearly for his speech calling for totally destroying the DPRK,” said the statement carried by North’s official Korean Central News Agency in a dispatch issued from Pyongyang on Friday morning. DPRK is the abbreviation of the communist country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The statement responded to Trump’s combative speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday where he mocked Kim as a “Rocket Man” … [Read more...] about Kim Jong Un calls Trump ‘deranged,’ says he’ll ‘pay dearly’: North Korean media report
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Defiant Kim Jong Un says he will complete North Korean nuclear program
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country is nearing its goal of “equilibrium” in military force with the United States, as the United Nations Security Council strongly condemned the North’s “highly provocative” ballistic missile launch over Japan on Friday. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency carried Kim’s comments on Saturday — a day after U.S. and South Korean militaries detected the missile launch from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. It travelled 3,700 kilometres as it passed over the Japanese island of Hokkaido before landing in the northern Pacific Ocean. It was the country’s longest-ever test flight of a ballistic missile. Read more: North Korea launches missile over Japan in longest-ever flight North Korea’s longest-ever missile launch triggers emergency UN meeting … [Read more...] about Defiant Kim Jong Un says he will complete North Korean nuclear program
As Trump mocks Kim Jong Un as ‘Rocket Man,’ U.S. advisers warn North Korea to end weapons program or face attack
SOMERSET, N.J.—President Donald Trump mocked the leader of nuclear-armed North Korea on Sunday as “Rocket Man” while White House advisers said the isolated country would face destruction unless it shelves its weapons programs and bellicose threats. The warnings came a day after Kim Jong Un pledged to continue those programs, saying North Korea is nearing its goal of “equilibrium” in military force with the United States. North Korea will be high on the agenda for world leaders this coming week at the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly, Trump’s biggest moment on the world stage since his inauguration in January. Trump is scheduled to address the world body, which he has criticized as weak and incompetent, on Tuesday. Read more: Read more on U.S. President Donald Trump … [Read more...] about As Trump mocks Kim Jong Un as ‘Rocket Man,’ U.S. advisers warn North Korea to end weapons program or face attack
Donald Trump a ‘mentally deranged U.S. dotard,’ says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA—Responding directly for the first time to President Donald Trump’s threat at the United Nations to destroy nuclear-armed North Korea, its leader called Trump a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard” on Friday and vowed the “highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history.” The rejoinder Kim Jong Un, who is about half as old as 71-year-old Trump, added to the lexicon of Kim’s choice of insults in the escalating bombast between the two. “A frightened dog barks louder,” Kim said in a statement, referring to Trump’s speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday in which he vowed to annihilate North Korea if the U.S. were forced to defend itself or its allies against it. “He is surely a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician,” Kim said. His statement, carried by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on Friday morning in Pyongyang, was his first direct … [Read more...] about Donald Trump a ‘mentally deranged U.S. dotard,’ says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
A short history of ‘dotard,’ the arcane insult Kim Jong Un used in his threat against Trump
WASHINGTON—In the latest war of words between the United States and North Korea, Kim Jong Un did not pull any punches. But he may have pulled out an old dictionary. “I will surely and definitely tame the deranged U.S. dotard with fire,” he declared in an unusually direct and angry statement published Thursday by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency. The North Korean leader’s warning about “fire,” which echoed President Donald Trump’s August statement threatening “fire and fury,” was par for the course in their increasingly tense relationship. On Thursday, Trump announced new financial sanctions to further isolate the country as its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities rapidly escalate. But Kim’s use of “dotard” was what raised eyebrows, prompting people around the world to Google the old-time insult. … [Read more...] about A short history of ‘dotard,’ the arcane insult Kim Jong Un used in his threat against Trump