Trump’s threat to destroy North Korea is like the sound of “a dog barking.” – Ri Yong

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North Korea’s foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho has delivered a scornful response to US President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy the hermit kingdom, likening it to the sound of “a dog barking.”

Ri Yong Ho, who is in the US for the United Nations General Assembly, said he “felt sorry” for the President’s advisers after a fiery speech to the UN on Tuesday.

In his debut address to world leaders, Trump vowed to “totally destroy” North Korea if the US was forced to defend its allies.

Referring North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by a nickname he first used in in a tweet Sunday, Trump said: “Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.”

Ri, in his country’s first response to Trump’s speech, was derisive. “If he was thinking he could scare us with the sound of a dog barking, that’s really a dog dream,” Ri told reporters outside his hotel in New York. In Korean, a dog dream is one that is absurd and makes little sense.

When asked about Trump’s use of the “rocket man” nickname, Ri said: “I feel sorry for his aides.”

Though Trump’s speeches typically employ colorful rhetoric, threatening another country with destruction was unprecedented for a US President and took diplomats aback.

North Korean diplomats were not present for Trump’s speech.

CNN

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