Trump threatens 'Little Rocket Man,' says Kim may 'not be around much longer'
President Trump sent a tweet directed at North Korea, saying that if
the country's foreign minister was speaking for North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un in his threatening speech at the United Nations, "they won't be
around much longer."
President
Trump sent another belligerent tweet directed at North Korea Saturday
night, saying that if the country's foreign minister was speaking for
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in his threatening speech at the United
Nations, "they won't be around much longer."
"Just
heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N.," Trump tweeted.
"If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much
longer!" The president was referring to a speech by North Korean Foreign Minister
Ri Yong-ho, earlier Saturday in which he called Trump “a mentally
deranged person full of megalomania” who is holding “the nuclear
button.”
In his U.N. speech, President Trump branded Kim Jong Un "Rocket
Man", his latest nickname for an opponent. We asked our in-house design
gurus to illustrate Trump’s controversial nicknames.
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Ri
said by repeatedly calling Kim "Rocket Man," Trump is making "our
rocket’s visit to the entire U.S. mainland inevitable all the more."
The
foreign minister also said Trump is a "gambler who grew old using
threats, frauds and all other schemes to acquire a patch of land." Ri
jumped into the nickname game as well, saying Americans call Trump
the "Commander in Grief," "Lyin' King," and "President Evil."
Trump
has turned the White House "into a noisy marketing place" and is making
the U.N. "a gangsters’ nest where money is respected and bloodshed is
the order of the day," Ri added.
In North Korea, a huge crowd gathered Saturday in
Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung Square for a large anti-U.S. rally. A parade of
marchers carried signs with slogans such as “decisive revenge” and
“death to the American imperialists.” They shouted phrases such as
“total destruction,” according to the Korean Central News Agency, the
state news service.
U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers and F-15 jets carried out a show of force Saturday
off the coast of North Korea. It was the farthest point north of the
Demilitarized Zone, which separates North and South Korea, that any U.S.
fighter or bomber aircraft has flown in the 21st century.
Trump has been engaged in an escalating war of words
with North Korea and its leader over the communist nation's
accelerating nuclear weapons program and its threat to attack the U.S.
and its neighbors.
Last week, Trump said, "Rocket
Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime" and
threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea. Kim responded by calling
Trump a "frightened dog" and a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard."
Contributing: Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY; The Associated Press
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