The two countries have been engaging in increasingly heated rhetoric in recent months.
North Korea has been testing missiles at an unprecedented rate and conducted its sixth nuclear test despite international condemnation.
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho, who had earlier compared Trump’s speech to “the sound of a barking dog”, has warned that Pyongyang could test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean in response to the US president’s threat.
“It could be the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb in the Pacific,” but today we have no idea about what actions could be taken as it will be ordered by leader Kim Jong-un. Mr. Ri said to Yonhap news agency.
The US president Trump’s also said in his speech on Tuesday that if America was forced to defend itself it would “totally destroy” North Korea. Trump also mockingly called Kim Jong is a Rocket man now on a suicide mission.
Kim sRocketmanEnglish statement carried by state news agency KCNA that Trump’s remarks “have convinced me, rather than frightening or stopping me, that the path I chose is correct and that it is the one I have to follow to the last”.
He said “now that Trump has denied the existence of and insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world and made the most ferocious declaration of a war in history”, North Korea would consider the “highest level of hard-line countermeasure” to make Mr. Trump “pay dearly for his speech
He ended by saying he would “surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire”.
Experts say this is the first time a North Korean leader has made a direct address to an international audience.
Analysts say that for this reason, it merits serious and thorough consideration.
