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  Michael Burleigh

• 3 Oct 2017
• In Politics
•    North Korea, Kim Jon Un, Donald Trump

Rocket Man and the Orange Comet

‘Rocket Man’ Kim Jong-un has responded to the US president by calling him ‘a mentally deranged dotard’, though the Korean word means ‘lunatic’. This is par for the course from a regime that dubbed Obama ‘a black monkey’.

This exchange follows Trump’s threats to bring ‘fire and fury’ to Pyongyang, which Kim has compared with the ‘a dog barking at a marching army’. In his UN General Assembly address, Trump warned he would ‘destroy North Korea’ prompting the latest retaliatory threats to detonate a fusion hydrogen bomb over the Pacific.