23 September, 2017
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has lobbed a string of insults at President Donald Trump, calling him a "mentally deranged US dotard" and hinting at a frightening new weapon test.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un makes a statement regarding U.S. President Donald Trump's speech at the United Nations general assembly, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang September 22, 2017.
The U.S. president vowed to unleash "fire and fury" on North Korea, used the nickname "Rocket Man" for Kim, and at the United Nations on Tuesday threatened to "totally destroy" the North if provoked.
The raging post comes just hours after Kim threatened to "tame the mentally deranged" Trump "with fire" in a rare personal statement.
North Korea could test a powerful nuclear weapon over the Pacific Ocean in response to US President Donald Trump's threats of military action, the country's foreign minister has warned.
Anthony Ruggiero with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank said of Trump's order: "This approach worked with Iran as companies, banks, governments and individuals chose the United States, and likely will restrict North Korea's revenue".
In recent months, the North has launched a pair of still-developmental ICBMs it said were capable of striking the continental United States and a pair of intermediate-range missiles that soared over Japanese territory. "They could have already prepared the plan and are now trying to use Trump's remarks as an excuse to make it happen", said Yang.
What missiles and nuclear weapons does North Korea have? This comes after President Donald Trump's United Nations address, saying that the US if provoked, would destroy the communist country.
Such a test would be considered a major provocation by Washington and its allies.
DPRK is the abbreviation of the communist country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Trump's latest steps to punish foreign companies that deal with the North was the latest salvo in a USA -led campaign to isolate and impoverish the government of Kim Jong Un until it halts the missile and nuclear tests. Asked for comment last week, the Foreign Ministry said China has always fully implemented United Nations sanctions on North Korea but opposes "unilateral" restrictions imposed by another country on Chinese entities.
"Obviously, as what we've said the objective is for them to stop their missile tests and give up their nuclear weapons".
North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho on Wednesday termed Trump's speech at UNGA as "sound of a dog barking".
The US and South Korea are technically still at war with North Korea because the 1950-53 Korean conflict ended with a truce and not a peace treaty. He mocked Kim as a "Rocket Man" on a "suicide mission", and sketched out potentially cataclysmic consequences. He has also said that previous US presidents allowed the North to develop its nuclear weapon.
Trump's heated language was rare for a US president at the rostrum of the United Nations.
