US President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused North Korea of torturing a captive US student “beyond belief,” spurning pleas from allies and foes in east Asia to tone down his warlike rhetoric. Last June the Ohio native was sent home in a coma after more than a year in prison in North Korea. Since June, the United States and North Korea have traded military moves and bombastic insults in a stand-off over Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear and ballistic weapons programs. “Otto was tortured beyond belief by North Korea,” he said in an early morning tweet. In his UN address last week, Trump delivered the blunt threat to “totally destroy” North Korea if provoked, deriding leader Kim Jong-Un as “Rocket Man”.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 27, 2017 14:03 UTC