Trump issues more threats against N. Korea

UNITED States President, President Donald Trump has responded to insults from North Korea’s foreign minister with more threats.

“Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at United Nations If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won’t be around much longer!” Trump said on Twitter.

North Korea’s foreign minister brought a dictionary full of insults for Trump when he addressed the UN General Assembly on Saturday.

Ri Yong Ho said he needed to respond to Trump, who on Tuesday called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “Rocket Man” and said he was on a suicide mission with his nuclear program.

Ri called Trump “a mentally deranged person full of megalomania” who is on a suicide mission of his own.

“In case innocent lives of the US are lost because of this suicide attack,” Trump will be held totally responsible,” he said, in response to the US president’s threat to “totally destroy” North Korea if it attacks the United States or one of its allies.

“During his eight months in power, he has turned the White House into a noisy marketing place full of crackling sounds of abacus beads, and now he has tried to turn the UN arena into a gangsters’ nest where money is respected and bloodshed is the order of the day,” Ri said, in an apparent criticism of Trump’s billionaire businessman roots.

Ri sought to portray his country as the victim of US threats and aggression. He condemned earlier remarks by President Trump in which he promised “fire and fury like the world has never seen” after North Korea threatened to fire missiles at the US island territory of Guam in August.

“What else could be a bigger threat than the violent remarks… coming from the top authority of the world’s biggest nuclear power?” Ri asked.

“The very reason the DPRK had to possess nuclear weapons is because of the US,” he said, using the acronym for the country’s formal name.

But he appeared to almost mock Washington for saying that it hopes not to have to use a military option.

“Although they talk about “fire and fury,” “total destruction” and whatever, every time they have to add various conditions such as, “hopefully this will not be necessary,” “that is not our first option” and so on,” Ri said.

Ri also lashed out at Japan and South Korea, calling them “stooges” of Washington.

On September 3, Pyongyang conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test to date.