{"id":17285,"date":"2017-09-24T14:42:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T14:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/09\/24\/north-korea-trump-insult-makes-attack-on-us-more-inevitable\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:55:26","slug":"north-korea-trump-insult-makes-attack-on-us-more-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2017\/09\/24\/north-korea-trump-insult-makes-attack-on-us-more-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea: Trump insult makes attack on US &#8216;more inevitable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNITED NATIONS \u2014 North Korea\u2019s foreign minister told world leaders Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s insult calling leader Kim Jong Un \u201crocket man\u201d makes \u201cour rocket\u2019s visit to the entire U.S. mainland inevitable all the more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ri Yong Ho called the American president \u201ca mentally deranged person full of megalomania and complacency\u201d with his finger on the \u201cnuclear button.\u201d And he said Trump\u2019s \u201creckless and violent words\u201d had provoked \u201cthe supreme dignity\u201d of North Korea and \u201crendered this sacred U.N. arena tainted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ri\u2019s highly anticipated speech to the General Assembly\u2019s annual ministerial meeting fueled the fiery rhetoric between the U.S. Republican president and North Korea\u2019s young leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump threatened in his speech to the 193-member world body on Tuesday to \u201ctotally destroy\u201d North Korea if forced to defend the U.S. or its allies. 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The Pentagon said the mission in international airspace showed how seriously President Donald Trump takes North Korea\u2019s \u201creckless behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense Department spokesman Dana White said the mission demonstrated \u201cU.S. resolve and a clear message that the president has many military options to defeat any threat.\u201d He said it showed how seriously Trump takes North Korea\u2019s \u201creckless behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ri called the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea \u2014 the country\u2019s official name \u2014 \u201ca responsible nuclear weapon state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he warned that \u201cwe will take preventive measures by merciless pre-emptive action in case the U.S. and its vassal forces show any sign of conducting a kind of \u2018decapitating\u2019 operation on our headquarters or military attack against our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ri said, however, that North Korea has no intention of using or threatening to use nuclear weapons against countries that don\u2019t join U.S. military actions against the DPRK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.N. 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