{"id":43879,"date":"2017-09-22T05:44:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T05:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=43879"},"modified":"2017-09-22T05:44:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T05:44:31","slug":"kim-says-deranged-trump-shows-need-for-nuclear-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/kim-says-deranged-trump-shows-need-for-nuclear-programme.html","title":{"rendered":"Kim says deranged Trump shows need for nuclear programme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kim says deranged Trump shows need for nuclear programme<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Kim says deranged Trump shows need for nuclear programme:- Kim Jong-un has said remarks by “deranged” US President Donald Trump have convinced him he is right to develop weapons for North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a rare personal statement, via state media, the North Korean leader said Mr Trump would “pay dearly” for his recent speech to the UN.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US president said on Tuesday that if America was forced to defend itself it would “totally destroy” North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Trump also mockingly called Mr Kim a “rocket man” on a “suicide mission”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two countries have been engaging in increasingly heated rhetoric in recent months.<\/span><\/p>\n

North Korea has been testing missiles at an unprecedented rate, and conducted its sixth nuclear test despite international condemnation.<\/span><\/p>\n

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho, who had earlier compared Mr Trump’s speech to “the sound of a barking dog”, has warned that Pyongyang could test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean in response to the US president’s threat.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It could be the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb in the Pacific,” Mr Ri said, quoted by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Kim said in an English statement carried by state news agency KCNA that Mr Trump’s remarks “have convinced me, rather than frightening or stopping me, that the path I chose is correct and that it is the one I have to follow to the last”.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said “now that Trump has denied the existence of and insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world and made the most ferocious declaration of a war in history”, North Korea would consider the “highest level of hard-line countermeasure” to make Mr Trump “pay dearly for his speech”.<\/span><\/p>\n

He ended by saying he would “surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Experts believe this is the first time a North Korean leader has made a direct address to an international audience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Kim’s comments prompted swift criticism from the Japanese government.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said in a news conference on Friday: “North Korea’s remarks and behaviour are provocative to regional and international security, and they are absolutely unacceptable.”<\/span><\/p>\n

North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles over Japan in the past month, raising regional tensions even further.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Trump on Thursday signed a new order boosting sanctions against North Korea, where the US treasury would target firms and financial institutions doing business with Pyongyang.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said: “For much too long North Korea has been allowed to abuse the international financial system to facilitate funding for its nuclear weapons and missile programs.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The UN Security Council had approved new rounds of sanctions earlier this month aimed of starving North Korea of fuel and income, which were in response to Pyongyang’s much-condemned sixth nuclear test on 3 September.<\/span><\/p>\n

North Korea was one of the top issues dominating the agenda at the UN General Assembly in New York, where several speakers called for a de-escalation of tensions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that “military hysteria” over the nuclear testing would lead to “disaster”, while China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Pyongyang not to go in a “dangerous direction”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Wang told the UN on Thursday that there should be no new nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula “whether it is in the North or the South”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-41356836<\/span><\/p>\n

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