Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, in response to President Trump's address earlier in the week, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri took direct aim at Trump:
"None other than Trump himself is on a suicide mission."
"None other than Trump himself is on a suicide mission," North Korea's Ri Yong Ho says https://t.co/ItuTAPADlF http://pic.twitter.com/7NnquohQPz
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"North Korea's nuclear arsenal is a war deterrent…The very reason the DPRK had to possess nuclear weapons is because of the U.S."
"The very reason the DPRK had to possess nuclear weapons is because of the U.S.," North Korea's Ri Yong Ho says https://t.co/ItuTAPADlF http://pic.twitter.com/l4ts4vqVsD
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"President Trump is trying to turn UN into a gangsters nest where bloodshed is order of the day."
"Pyongyang will take merciless pre-emptive action if needed."
"POTUS might not realize what he's uttered from his mouth, but we will make sure that he bears consequences far beyond his words…"
N. Korea: POTUS might not realize what he's "uttered from his mouth, but we will make sure that he bears consequences far beyond his words" http://pic.twitter.com/uiNGZbavwI
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But the most prominent threat was the North Korean's warning that "inevitably", the country's rockets will hit the US, to wit: "President Trump committed an irreversible mistake… making the visit of our rockets to the entire U.S. mainland all the more inevitable."
Pres. Trump "committed an irreversible mistake of making our rockets’ visit to the entire U.S. mainland inevitable all the more," FM says http://pic.twitter.com/qAD1ceKP8d
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"The U.S. claims that the DPRK's possession of H-bomb and ICBM constitutes a global threat…but such claim is a big lie…"
"The U.S. claims that the DPRK's possession of H-bomb and ICBM constitutes a global threat…but such claim is a big lie," Ri Yong Ho says http://pic.twitter.com/NpuN657fkr
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