Trump cranks up N Korea threats after UN speech
‘SHOW OF FORCE’ US bombers fly near demilitarised zone to ‘send a message’
SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS : US President Donald Trump dialled up the rhetoric against North Korea again at the weekend, warning the country’s foreign minister that he and leader Kim Jong Un “won’t be around much longer”, as Pyongyang staged a major anti-us rally.
North Korea’s foreign minister Ri Yong Ho told the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday that targeting the US mainland with its rockets was inevitable after “Mr Evil President” Trump called Pyongyang’s leader a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.
“Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won’t be around much longer!” Trump tweeted late on Saturday.
Trump and Kim have traded increasingly threatening and personal insults as Pyongyang races towards its goal of developing a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the United States — something Trump has vowed to prevent.
Analysts say the escalation in rhetoric is increasing the risk of a miscalculation by one side or the other that could have massive repercussions.
North Korea’s state-run teleremove the US from the world,” vision KRT aired a video on SunKCNA quoted Ri Il-bae, a comday showing tens of thousands of manding officer of the Red people attending an anti-us rally Guards, as saying. at Kim Il Sung square in PyongAlso on Saturday, US Air yang. Force B-1B Lancer bombers
The North’s official KCNA escorted by fighters flew in internews agency said more than national airspace over waters 100,000 people gathered for the east of North Korea in a show of rally on Saturday and delivered force the Pentagon said indispeeches supporting comments cated the range of military made by Kim earlier in the week. options available to Trump.
“We are waiting for the right The US bombers’ flight was time to have a final battle with the farthest north of the demilithe US, the evil empire, and to tarized zone separating North and South Korea that any US fighter jet or bomber had flown in the 21st century, the Pentagon said.
The United States 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.
The North accuses the United States, which has 28,500 troops in South Korea, of planning to invade and regularly threatens to destroy it and its Asian allies.