Kim’s Rejoinder to Trump’s Rocket Man: ‘Mentally Deranged U.S. Dotard’
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Kim’s Rejoinder to Trump’s Rocket Man: ‘Mentally Deranged U.S. Dotard’
In his United Nations speech on Tuesday, Mr. Trump called North Korea’s autocracy a "band of criminals" and Mr. Kim a "Rocket Man" on "a suicide mission." "The United States has great strength and patience,
but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea," he said.
Mr. Kim’s foreign minister, Ri Yong-ho, who arrived in New York on Wednesday to attend the General Assembly, also called Mr. Trump "a dog barking." Asked by reporters in New York what Mr. Kim might have meant by the "highest level of hard-line countermeasure," Mr. Ri said
that only Mr. Kim would know, but that he thought the North might be considering the largest test of a hydrogen bomb ever in the Pacific Ocean, according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
21, 2017
SEOUL, South Korea — Responding directly for the first time to President Trump’s threat at the United Nations to destroy nuclear-armed North Korea, its leader called Mr. Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" on Friday
and vowed the "highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history." The rejoinder by the leader, Kim Jong-un, who is about half as old as Mr. Trump, 71, added to the lexicon of Mr. Kim’s choice of insults in the escalating bombast between the two.
that A frightened dog barks louder,
North Korea flight-tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles in July, the last
of which demonstrated the potential of reaching the mainland United States.
In his United Nations speech on Tuesday, Mr. Trump called North Korea’s autocracy a "band of criminals" and Mr. Kim a "Rocket Man" on "a suicide mission." "The United States has great strength and patience,
but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea," he said.
Mr. Kim’s foreign minister, Ri Yong-ho, who arrived in New York on Wednesday to attend the General Assembly, also called Mr. Trump "a dog barking." Asked by reporters in New York what Mr. Kim might have meant by the "highest level of hard-line countermeasure," Mr. Ri said
that only Mr. Kim would know, but that he thought the North might be considering the largest test of a hydrogen bomb ever in the Pacific Ocean, according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
21, 2017
SEOUL, South Korea — Responding directly for the first time to President Trump’s threat at the United Nations to destroy nuclear-armed North Korea, its leader called Mr. Trump a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" on Friday
and vowed the "highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history." The rejoinder by the leader, Kim Jong-un, who is about half as old as Mr. Trump, 71, added to the lexicon of Mr. Kim’s choice of insults in the escalating bombast between the two.
that A frightened dog barks louder,
North Korea flight-tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles in July, the last
of which demonstrated the potential of reaching the mainland United States.