Kim wants Aust to turn on Trump
NORTH Korea has sent a “desperate” letter to the Australian Government, imploring it to turn against US President Donald Trump.
The rambling open letter, which has been published by Fairfax, came from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Foreign Affairs Committee via the country’s Jakarta embassy.
“The Foreign Affairs Committee … bitterly condemns the reckless remarks of Trump as an intolerable insult to the Korean people, a declaration of war against the DPRK and a grave threat to the global peace,” the letter reads.
“From the first day of his office, Trump has engaged himself in high-handed and arbitrary practice, scrapping international laws and agreements incurring his displeasure on the ‘US-first principle’, the height of American way of thinking that is best if the US is well-off at the expense of the whole world.
“If Trump thinks that he would bring the DPRK, a nuclear power, to its knees through nuclear war threat, it will be a big miscalculation and an expression of ignorance.”
The screed appears to be a heavy-handed plea to various governments to pull out of the harsh United Nations Security Council sanctions levelled against North Korea over its weapons program.
The sanctions have struck a significant blow to the nation’s economy, with one former high-ranking North Korean official saying this week the country “will not survive a year” under them.
The missive concludes by calling for “international justice” and “sharp vigilance against the heinous and reckless moves of the Trump administration trying to drive the world into a horrible nuclear disaster”.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told 3AW’s Neil Mitchell the letter proved sanctions against the regime were biting hard.
“They’ve sent this letter to a lot of other countries,” he said.
“It’s consistent with their rant and complaints about Donald Trump, but the fact is North Korea is the one in breach of UN Security Council resolutions.”
Last Saturday, Pyongyang warned Australia it would not be able to avoid a disaster if it continued to call for an end to the North’s nuclear weapons program.