NORTH KOREA LIKENS TRUMP TO HITLER

Seoul: North Korea likened US President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler on Tuesday in its latest diatribe amid high tensions over Pyongyang’s military ambitions and ahead of a visit to Washington by the South’s new leader. The latest attack came a week after nuclear-armed Pyongyang called Mr Trump a “lunatic” as tensions rose after the death of US student Otto Warmbier, who was detained for 18 months in the North and then evacuated in a coma. An editorial on the North’s official Korean Central News Agency dialled the hostile rhetoric up higher, slamming Mr Trump’s key policies as being akin to “Nazism in the 21st century.” Mr Trump declared at his inauguration in January that “From this moment on, it’s going to be America first.” The ‘American-first principle’... advocates the world domination by recourse to military means just as was the case with Hitler’s concept of world occupation.” Mr Trump was “following Hitler’s dictatorial politics” to divide others into “friends and foes” to justify “suppression”.