‘Trump runs several risks by matching North Korea’s rhetoric’

Analysis By Foster Klug

Donald Trump’s threat to unleash “fire and fury” on North Korea might have been written by Pyongyang’s propaganda mavens, so perfectly does it fit the North’s cherished claim that it is a victim of American aggression.

Not since George W Bush labelled North Korea part of an “axis of evil” has the nation had such a strong piece of presidential evidence to back up its argument that only nuclear and missile development can counter “hostile” US policies aimed at ending the rule of the latest member of the Kim family of dictators.