US President Donald Trump is exchanging school yard taunts with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
In a response to North Korea calling Trump’s speech in South Korea “reckless remarks by an old lunatic”, Trump tweeted from Hanoi on Sunday morning: “Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me ‘old,’ when I would NEVER call him ‘short and fat?”‘
Trump goes on to say sarcastically, “Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend – and maybe someday that will happen!”
Trump has been working to rally global pressure against North Korea’s nuclear weapons program on a trip to Asia.
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That includes a stern speech delivered in South Korea’s National Assembly on Tuesday, in which he said: “Do not underestimate us. And do not try us. … The weapons you’re acquiring are not making you safer, they are putting your regime in grave danger. Every step you take down this dark path increases the peril you face.”
On Saturday, Kim’s government responded by accusing Trump of trying to demonise North Korea, keeping it apart from the international community and undermining its government.
“Reckless remarks by an old lunatic like Trump will never scare us or stop our advance,” the North’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“On the contrary, all this makes us more sure that our choice to promote economic construction at the same time as building up our nuclear force is all the more righteous, and it pushes us to speed up the effort to complete our nuclear force.”
North Korea is not known to have tested any of its missiles or nuclear devices since September 15, a relative lull after a brisk series of tests earlier this year.
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Someone needs to sit down and ask each of them "Now Don, how do you think Kim feels when you call him short and fat?" and "Kim how do you think Don feels when you say he's old and insane?".
If they can't still can't play nice, then confiscate their favourite toys like Don's phone and Kim's rockets.
Well pot meet kettle. Reminds me of howTrump reckons (based on a “rushed” and highly improbable letter by his personal physician) he will be the fittest and healthiest president ever - even though he doesn’t believe in exercise, is pushing 70 and as a non-drinker he must have a pretty appalling diet to be as grossly overweight as he is. Plus he has insinuated at indulging in vices other than alcohol...NYC in the 80s and 90s...hmmm...wonder what that could be, probably involved a lot of inhaling (or snorting)
The pot belly calling the kettle fat!
Lolz on that one!
I think that might be a Kath and Kim one - from the early days on Big Girls Blouse.