North Korea: Trump’s Nuclear Button Tweet Spasm of a Lunatic
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North Korea's state-run media has labelled Donald Trump's tweet about having a bigger nuclear button than leader Kim Jong Un's the "spasm of a lunatic".
Rodong Sinmun, the ruling party newspaper, criticised the US President after he tweeted: "I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!"
A summary of the commentary by North Korea's official news agency described the tweet as "the spasm of a lunatic".
"The spasm of Trump in the new year reflects the desperate mental state of a loser who failed to check the vigorous advance of the army and people of the DPRK," the article said, using the acronym for North Korea's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"He is making [a] bluff only to be diagnosed as a psychopath."
Trump's controversial "nuclear button" tweet was in response to Kim's New Year's Day warning that North Korea's nuclear arsenal is a real threat and that he has a nuclear launch button on his desk at all times.
Kim said the entire US was within range of North Korean nuclear weapons, adding: "This is reality, not a threat."
Trump threatened North Korea with "fire and fury like the world has never seen" in an exchange of taunts with the North, which claimed it was examining plans to launch missiles toward the American territory of Guam.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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