North Korea: "very dangerous challenge" if Trump calls Kim 'Rocket Man' again
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05 December, 2019, 07:35 pm
Last modified: 05 December, 2019, 07:42 pm
Trump said on Tuesday he still had confidence in the North Korean leader but noted that Kim "likes sending rockets up"
File Photo: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un cuts a ribbon during a completion ceremony for a vegetable greenhouse farm and tree nursery in Jungphyong area in Kyongsong County, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, in this undated picture released by North Korea's Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 4, 2019. KCNA via Reuters
Should US President Donald Trump call North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "Rocket Man" again, that would represent a "very dangerous challenge" reminiscent of two years ago, a senior North Korean official warned on Thursday.
Choe Son Hui, who was quoted by state-run KCNA news agency, was referring to a time when tensions between when Washington and Pyongyang ran high.
Trump said on Tuesday he still had confidence in the North Korean leader but noted that Kim "likes sending rockets up".
"...That's why I call him Rocket Man," Trump told reporters at a NATO meeting in London.
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