Unless North Korea backs down, he said, “We will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”“Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime,” he said. A junior North Korean diplomat remained in the delegation’s front-row seat for Trump’s speech, the North Korean UN mission said. But his strongest words were directed at North Korea. Shortly before Trump’s speech, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed from the General Assembly lectern for statesmanship to avoid war with North Korea. “We must not sleepwalk our way into war.”The UN Security Council has unanimously imposed nine rounds of sanctions on North Korea since 2006 and Guterres appealed for the 15-member body to maintain its unity on North Korea.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 19, 2017 15:11 UTC