Pyongyang threatens H-bomb test: “The North could consider a hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean,” South Korean Foreign Minister, Ri Yong Ho, told reporters on Friday in New York. Ri was asked what North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had meant when he threatened “we will consider with seriousness exercising of a corresponding, highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history,” earlier Friday.
Ri Yong Ho added that he did not know Kim’s exact thoughts, according report by South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
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The US President Donald Trump said in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that he would “totally destroy” the country of 26 million people if the North threatened the US and its allies. He called Kim a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.
In a rare direct statement Kim Jong Un repels Trump as “mentally deranged” and vowed to make him ‘pay dearly’ for threatening to destroy North Korea, the KCNA state news agency reported.
Pyongyang conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test on Sept 3. It has launched dozens of missiles this year as it accelerates a programme aimed at enabling it to target the US with a nuclear-tipped missile.
Kim said Trump would face “results beyond his expectation”, without specifying what action North Korea would take next.
Kim Jong Un’s full statement reads:
Statement of Chairman of State Affairs Commission of DPRK
Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) — Respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, released a statement on Thursday.
The full text of the statement reads:
The speech made by the U.S. president in his maiden address on the UN arena in the prevailing serious circumstances, in which the situation on the Korean peninsula has been rendered tense as never before and is inching closer to a touch-and-go state, is arousing worldwide concern.
Shaping the general idea of what he would say, I expected he would make stereo-typed, prepared remarks a little different from what he used to utter in his office on the spur of the moment as he had to speak on the world’s biggest official diplomatic stage.
But, far from making remarks of any persuasive power that can be viewed to be helpful to defusing tension, he made unprecedented rude nonsense one has never heard from any of his predecessors.
A frightened dog barks louder.
I’d like to advise Trump to exercise prudence in selecting words and to be considerate of whom he speaks to when making a speech in front of the world.
The mentally deranged behavior of the U.S. president openly expressing on the UN arena the unethical will to “totally destroy” a sovereign state, beyond the boundary of threats of regime change or overturn of social system, makes even those with normal thinking faculty think about discretion and composure.
His remarks remind me of such words as “political layman” and “political heretic” which were in vogue in reference to Trump during his presidential election campaign.
After taking office Trump has rendered the world restless through threats and blackmail against all countries in the world. He is unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country, and he is surely a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician.
His remarks which described the U.S. option through straightforward expression of his will 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.
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 that he would destroy the DPRK, we will consider with seriousness exercising of a corresponding, highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history.
Action is the best option in treating the dotard who, hard of hearing, is uttering only what he wants to say.
As a man representing the DPRK and on behalf of the dignity and honor of my state and people and on my own, I will make the man holding the prerogative of the supreme command in the U.S. pay dearly for his speech calling for totally destroying the DPRK.
This is not a rhetorical expression loved by Trump.
I am now thinking hard about what response he could have expected when he allowed such eccentric words to trip off his tongue.
Whatever Trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation.
I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U. S. dotard with fire. -0-
In his sanctions announcement on Thursday, Trump stopped short of going after Pyongyang’s biggest trading partner, China. China central bank has told other banks to stop business with N. Korea
The additional sanctions on Pyongyang, including on its shipping and trade networks, showed that Trump was giving more time for economic pressures to weigh on North Korea after warning about the possibility of military action on Tuesday.
Asked ahead of a lunch meeting with the leaders of Japan and South Korea if diplomacy was still possible, Trump nodded and said: “Why not?”
Trump said the new executive order on sanctions lets the authorities target individual companies and institutions that finance and facilitate trade with North Korea.
It “will cut off sources of revenue that fund North Korea’s efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to humankind”, Trump said.
The US Treasury Department now has authority to target those that conduct “significant trade in goods, services or technology with North Korea”.
The White House said North Korea’s energy, medical, mining, textiles, and transportation industries were among those targeted and that the US Treasury could sanction anyone wh
The additional sanctions on Pyongyang, including on its shipping and trade networks, showed that Trump was giving more time for economic pressures to weigh on North Korea after warning about the possibility of military action on Tuesday.
Sanctions “will cut off sources of revenue that fund North Korea’s efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to humankind”, Trump said.
The US Treasury Department now has authority to target those that conduct “significant trade in goods, services or technology with North Korea”.
The White House said North Korea’s energy, medical, mining, textiles, and transportation industries were among those targeted and that the US Treasury could sanction anyone wh
The full statement reads:
U.S. Chief Executive’s Remarks Are Heinous
Pyongyang, September 22 (KCNA) — U.S. President Trump made a keynote speech at the 72nd UN General Assembly.
In his speech he spit out unprecedented rubbish that he would wipe a country of 25 million people off the map, not just “regime change”.
“… if the U.S. is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea,” he said.
This thrice-cursed sophism made by the mentally deranged hooligan has shocked the whole world.
The Washington Post said the recent remarks made by Trump was a “prepared speech in which his words were undoubtedly pored over extensively beforehand”, adding that “fire and fury” could be interpreted as a threat to simply remove Kim and his government; “totally destroy North Korea” seems to be a signal to the North Korean people that they, too, could face annihilation alongside their government leaders. “It sounds a lot like Trump is threatening a completely unprecedented effort to wipe out an entire nation, whether through nuclear weapons or more conventional means. It’s a remarkably big statement, and the White House will undoubtedly be asked to clarify.
The paper also derided the words of “totally destroying the north” as the one “full of childish curses rather than strong expression”, saying “the speech made by the U.S. president will be remembered as one of speeches by boss of gangsters”.
The CNN quoted a senior UN diplomat as saying there was shock in the room when Trump threatened destruction, adding that Trump’s statement to the north goes beyond reason like his words “fire and fury”.
The British newspaper Guardian said “what did we learn from Trump’s UN speech? he’ll never change”, adding his colorful language might even be funny if it weren’t for the fact that Trump controls a nuclear arsenal powerful enough to annihilate humanity several times over.
The British newspaper the Financial Times said the UN has never heard such a speech as what was made by Trump and that no one out of the successive U.S. presidents said such words inciting such a conflict with the rival.
Even U.S. political figures denounced the wild remarks of Trump.
Foreign news reported that Trump’s speech went so much beyond the expectations that even the presidential chief of staff of White House John Kelly was seen bewildered with his head in his hands when he was listening to the speech in field.
The U.S. political media POLITICO commented that Trump’s speech is severance from the past 70 years during when the successive U.S. presidents have tried to take the initiative of international alliance to cope with threats, adding that the U.S. international influence would sustain another strike if policy is not set forth along with the speech.
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Elisabeth Wallstrom denounced Trump’s speech as “nationalist speech”, noting it was “in breach of the UN charter.”
She added that Trump’s speech that “he would destroy north Korea is a protest against a country and it is not what should be said to people gathered here.”
First Vice-Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian Federation Council Vladimir Zyavarov when interviewed by ITAR-TASS said that Americans are mistaken if they think they would not suffer damage in case they provoke a war against the DPRK, adding that anyway, the DPRK borders the world’s two nuclear powers China and Russia, and if something happens, these countries will be inveigled into the disputes, to our regret.
Gennadi Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, stressed as follows:
Trump’s remarks are a challenge to whole world. It is because any disputes on the Korean peninsula would inevitably inveigle neighbors Russia, China and Japan and the U.S.
Trump is bluffing that he would settle everything at a go while likening the DPRK to a rogue state but I am certain that nothing will be solved here. This is completely foolish nonsense.
From military point of view, Americans’ remarks are an open provocation.
German Chancellor Merkel said that military solution is absolutely unsuitable and former U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton denounced Trump’s speech as very dark and dangerous one.
U.S. Congressmen expressed deep concerns over the wild words of Trump.
Senator Diane Feinstein, a Democratic critic of Trump’s, said “Trump’s bombastic threat to destroy North Korea … are severe disappointments,” adding “Today, the president used it as a stage to threaten war.”
Ted, member of the House of Representatives of the Democratic Party, recalling Trump’s remarks said that “he threatened he would destroy other country”, adding problem is not whether the U.S. can destroy north Korea but whether he can cope with south Korea, Japan and even Guam being destroyed and with thousands of Americans being sacrificed in the course of doing so.
The world media comment his remarks as a dangerous provocation that can provoke a war, something that can be uttered by the boss of gangsters rather than by a politician.
The international community is raising voices of denunciation, being deeply concerned about such outbursts and wild words as “total destruction” of a sovereign state, not just “overturn of social system” and “regime change”. -0-
