Trump is deranged dotard, says Kim with threat of big H-bomb test in the Pacific
NORTH Korea today claimed it could to test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific as leader Kim Jong-un branded US President Donald Trump a “mentally deranged dotard”.
The H-bomb threat appeared to be in direc t ret aliation to Mr Trump’s warning at the United Nations that he would “totally destroy” North Korea if the US feels threatened by the rogue state.
North Korea’s foreign minister Ri Yong Ho said testing the bomb would back Kim’s vow to take the “highestlevel of hard-line countermeasure in history” against America. He added: “It could be the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb in the Pacific. We have no idea about what actions could be taken as it will be ordered by leader Kim Jong-un.”
The latest escalation came just hours after Kim reacted angrily to Mr Trump’s confrontational UN speech, in which he called the North Korean dictator “Rocket Man”, following a series of missile tests by Pyongyang.
In turn, Kim branded the president a “mentally deranged US dotard” and called his UN threat “unprecedented rude nonsense”. In a rare personal statement released by the official Korean news agency, he added: “I will make the man holding the prerogative of the supreme command in the US pay dearly for his speech,
“I am now thinking hard about what response he could have expected when he allowed such eccentric words to trip off his tongue. Whatever Trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation.
“He is unfit to hold the prerogative of IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani today vowed to press ahead with the country’s missile programme and boost its military capabilities in defiance of US demands for restraint. At a military parade marking the IranIraq war in the Eighties he said Iran will “strengthen” its defences “whether you want it or not”, in answer to President Trump’s speech at the UN accusing Iran of supporting terrorists and calling it a “corrupt dictatorship” and a “murderous regime”. Mr Rouhani also said that Tehran will keep supporting “the oppressed people of Yemen, Syria and Palestine”.
supreme command of a country, and he is surely a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician.” Kim said he would “tame” Mr Trump “with fire”.
Amid the escalating war of words the president last night announced new financial sanctions on North Korea, designed to force countries to decide whether to do business with the US or with Kim’s regime. Mr Trump also praised China for ordering its banks to cease working with North Korean firms, calling its decision “very bold”.
America’s ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said: “We don’t want war. At the same time, we’re not going to run scared. If for any reason North Korea attacks the United States or our allies, we’re going to respond.”