Kim Jong Un has warned that Donald Trump will “pay dearly” for his threat this week to “totally destroy” North Korea if America is forced to defend itself and its allies, as he escalated the heated war of words between the two men.
In a statement hours after the US imposed more sanctions on Pyongyang, Mr Kim called Mr Trump ”mentally deranged”, and a “gangster fond of playing with fire” who was “unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country”.
The North Korean dictator said Mr Trump’s speech to the UN general assembly — where the US president declared that “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission” — had convinced him that his decision to continue developing nuclear weapons was the “correct path”.
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