Don’t try us: Trump

President tells Kim his ‘cruel dictatorship’ is in grave danger

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump delivered a sharp warning to North Korea yesterday, telling the rogue nation: “Do not underestimate us. And do not try us.”

In a speech delivered hours after he aborted a visit to the heavily fortified Korean demilitarised zone due to bad weather, Mr Trump said he had a message for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

“The weapons you are acquiring are not making you safer, they are putting your regime in grave danger,” Mr Trump told an audience of South Korean lawmakers in Seoul. “Every step you take down this dark path increases the peril you face.”

Mr Trump called on all nations to join forces to isolate North Korea.

“The world cannot tolerate the menace of a rogue regime that threatens with nuclear devastation,” he said.

Mr Trump had hoped to underscore his message with an early morning visit to the DMZ, but his plans were thwarted by heavy fog that prevented his helicopter from landing at the heavily fortified border that has separated the North and South for the last 64 years.

The Marine One helicopter left Seoul at daybreak and flew most of the way to the DMZ, but was forced to turn back just five minutes out.

In his speech, Mr Trump denounced Pyongyang as a “cruel dictatorship” and told Kim, who is the third generation in the country’s ruling dynasty, that: “North Korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned.

“It is a hell that no person deserves.”

But “despite every crime you have committed against God and man,” he went on, “we will offer a path towards a much better future”.

It would have to start, though, with North Korea stopping its development of ballistic missiles and “complete verifiable and total denuclearisation”, Mr Trump said.