January 18, 2018
North Korea's state-run media has labelled Donald Trump's tweet about having a bigger nuclear button than leader Kim Jong Un's the "spasm of a lunatic".
Rodong Sinmun, the ruling party newspaper, criticized the US President after he tweeted: "I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"
A summary of the commentary by North Korea’s official news agency described the tweet as “the spasm of a lunatic”.
“The spasm of Trump in the new year reflects the desperate mental state of a loser who failed to check the vigorous advance of the army and people of the DPRK,” the article said, using the acronym for North Korea’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
“He is making [a] bluff only to be diagnosed as a psychopath.”
The tone of the commentary is not uncommon for the North Korean media. But Mr Trump's willingness to respond in kind – he has repeatedly called Mr Kim "little rocket man" – is rare for an American leader.
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2018
Mr. Trump has more recently suggested he might be willing to meet with Mr. Kim, and reportedly told the Wall Street Journal the two “probably have a very good relationship”.
Mr. Trump’s controversial “nuclear button” tweet was in response to Kim’s New Year’s Day warning that North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is a real threat and that he has a nuclear launch button on his desk at all times.
Rodong Sinmun also recently ran a story about the book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which casts the president as a leader who doesn’t understand the weight of his office and whose competence is questioned by aides. Mr. Trump and other White House officials have blasted it as inaccurate.
Donald Trump's willingness to respond in kind is rare for an American leader – Getty
Last summer, Mr. Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” in an exchange of taunts with the North, which claimed it was examining plans to launch missiles toward the American territory of Guam.
The book’s sales reflect “rapidly surging anti-Trump sentiments in the international community,” the article said. “The anti-Trump book is sweeping all over the world so Trump is being massively humiliated worldwide.”
The book’s popularity “foretells Trump’s political demise,” it concluded.
Courtesy/Source: The Independent
