AP, SEOULNorth Korea on Thursday called Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe an “idiot” after he criticized a weapons test by Pyongyang. During a regional summit in Thailand earlier this week, Abe reportedly condemned the North’s latest test and described it as a clear breach of UN Security Council resolutions. The Japanese government had no immediate reaction to the North Korean statement. North Korea has often unleashed crude insults against foreign leaders and politicians to criticize what it sees as slanderous remarks toward its leadership or hostile policies against its government. The insults have included racist and sexist diatribes, including against former US president Barack Obama and former South Korean president Park Geun-hye.

Source: Taipei Times November 08, 2019 16:06 UTC