Kim attacks a ‘frightened dog’
KIM Jong-un has struck back fiercely at Donald Trump after the US President’s threat this week to “totally destroy” North Korea if it attacks the US or one of its allies.
“Far from making remarks of any persuasive power that can be viewed to be helpful to defusing tension, he made unprecedented rude nonsense,” Kim said yesterday.
“A frightened dog barks louder. He is unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country and he is surely a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire.”
He said Mr Trump’s threats had “convinced me, rather than frightening or stopping me, that the path I chose is correct and that it is the one I have to follow to the last”.
“I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire,” he said.
The rant came just hours after Mr Trump said the US would impose new sanctions on North Korea in response to the country’s developing nuclear program and increasingly aggressive missile demonstrations.
This would allow the US to target individuals, businesses and financial institutions that helped North Korea, he said.
His announcement came as the Chinese central bank told the country’s banks to strictly implement United Nations sanctions against Pyongyang, amid US concerns Beijing’s response to North Korea was not tough enough.
In a combative speech at the United Nations General Assembly earlier this week, President Trump mocked the North Korean leader as a “rocket man” on a “suicide mission” and said the US would have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea if “forced to defend itself or its allies”.
Threats have spurred Mr Kim to do more nuclear missile tests and now North Korea is seemingly interested in testing a hydrogen bomb in the middle of the Pacific.
It was a direct response to President Trump’s latest threat to destroy the country, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho told media.
He said Mr Kim was ultimately referring to the potential test of “the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb” when he earlier said the North would consider the “highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history”.