Trump: I’d ‘destroy’ N. Korea

PRESIDENT TRUMP dropped an apocalyptic warning on North Korea in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, telling diplomats from 193 nations that the U.S. is ready to “totally destroy” Kim Jong Un’s nation if necessary.

“The United States has great strength and patience. But if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea,” he said.

Trump then invoked the new nickname he introduced for Kim on Twitter days ago.

“Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime,” Trump said about Kim.

“The United States is ready, willing and able, but hopefully, this will not be necessary.”

Trump called on all other nations to diplomatically and economically isolate North Korea until Kim contains his hostility.

This was Trump’s most ominous warning yet to North Korea, which has traded threats of mass destruction with the U.S. since Trump took office. After Kim ramped up his country’s nuclear and long-range missile tests, Trump warned of “fire and fury” awaiting North Korea if it provoked America. But never before has Trump threatened total destruction of the country.

Trump was expected to single out North Korea in his speech, and North Korea’s UN ambassador, Ja Song Nam, walked out of the room before Trump took the podium.

In his 40-minute speech, Trump lobbed threats and taunts at America’s adversaries while championing his “America First” campaign on the global stage.

He chastised other nations for leaving the U.S. with an “unfair cost burden” toward the UN, which he said was holding the organization back from accomplishing its diplomatic goals.

“The investment would easily be well worth it,” Trump admonished.

“Major portions of the world are in conflict, and some, in fact, are going to hell.”

Trump also had stern words for Iran, which he called “an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed and chaos.”

He hinted at likely U.S. opposition to the 2015 Iran deal, an Obama-era policy that candidate Trump vowed to cancel if elected.

Trump said the deal, which lifts sanctions on Iran in exchange for a taming of its nuclear weapons program, is “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.”

“They are building dangerous missiles, and we cannot abide by the agreement if it provides cover