Sep 21, 2017 - Politics & Policy

Kim Jong-un: "Deranged" Trump will "pay dearly" for threats

A man watches a TV news program on a public screen showing an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Photo: Eugene Hoshiko / AP

North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un said Trump will "pay dearly" for his speech calling for destruction of the DPRK. Kim released a statement saying he thinks Trump's speech shows "mentally deranged behavior" and that Trump "is unfit" to serve at the "command of a country." He called Trump a "rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician."

The key line: Now that Trump's made "the most ferocious declaration of a war in history that he would destroy the DPRK, we will consider with seriousness exercising of a corresponding, highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history..."

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