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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called President Donald Trump “deranged” and said he will “pay dearly” for his threats. The North Korean Foreign Minister later reportedly threatened to test an H-bomb in the Pacific.
Kim said on Friday that Trump is “unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country” and described the president as “a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire,” according to North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
The comments come in response to Trump’s speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.
Calling Trump a “mentally deranged US dotard,” Kim said that Trump’s remarks had convinced him “that the path I chose is correct and that it is the one I have to follow to the last,” adding that he was “thinking hard” about his response.
Not to be outdone in the personal insult back-and-forth, Trump, who called Kim “rocket man” during his speech at the United Nations, tweeted on Friday that Kim was a “madman.”
South Korean media reported on Friday morning comments by North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong that his country may test a hydrogen bomb to fulfill Kim’s pledge to take the “highest-level” action against the United States.
Ri said on Thursday that a response “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,” he said.
On Thursday, Trump had announced new US sanctions that he said “will cut off sources of revenue that fund North Korea’s efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to humankind.”
Referring to the North Korean nuclear program, Trump said “tolerance for this disgraceful practice must end now.”
He added that North Korea’s textile, fishing, information technology, and manufacturing industries were among those the United States could target with the sanctions. The new measures do not affect the North Korean oil industry.
