North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un said on Friday the North will consider the "highest level of hardline countermeasure in history" against the United States in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to destroy the North. Calling Trump "mentally deranged" and his comments "the most ferocious declaration of a war in history," Kim said his UN speech on Tuesday confirmed Pyongyang's nuclear program has been "the correct path". Kim said Trump would face "results beyond his expectation," without specifying what action North Korea would take next. "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire," Kim said in the rare direct statement, referring to Trump. A day after Trump's address, North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho had likened Trump to a "barking dog," saying his comments were no threat to the North.

Source: The North Africa Journal September 21, 2017 23:15 UTC