The Associated Press reports:
North Korea state news agency: Kim Jong Un calls Trump “deranged,” says he will “pay dearly” for his threats. The announcement from the news agency comes after North Korea’s foreign minister mad a comment, “the sound of a dog barking” in regards to President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy his country.
The comments are the North’s first response to Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, during which he vowed to “totally destroy North Korea” if provoked. Trump also called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “Rocket man.”
BREAKING: Kim Jong Un responds directly to Pres. Trump’s UN speech; says the US president is exhibiting “mentally deranged behavior.”
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) September 21, 2017
Kim Jong Un: In UN speech, Pres. Trump delivered “unprecedented rude nonsense one has never heard from any of his predecessors.”
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) September 21, 2017
Kim Jon Un: Pres. Trump “insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world” and “he will face results beyond his expectation.”
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) September 21, 2017