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That may have been the question on the minds of many world leaders who were convening in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, following remarks from U.S. President Donald Trump regarding the Kim Jong Un regime.
Trump said if the United States is "forced to defend itself and its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea."
"Rocket man" Kim is "on a suicide mission,†Trump added.
Trump’s unprecedented verbal attack of Kim before a live audience may have had heads spinning.
Following the speech, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres disputed the viability of a military option and said, “We must not sleepwalk our way into war.â€
In a rare move, the North Korean leader issued a statement in response to Trump’s speech, condemning Trump for assembling a string of “eccentric words†that insulted Kim’s dignity and his country of 25 million people.
"Whatever Trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire," Kim said Friday.
Staunch U.S. allies South Korea and Japan, meanwhile, cautiously supported Trump’s statement, with South Korean President Moon Jae-in urging North Korea to “stand on the right side of history.â€
But amid North Korean comparisons of Trump’s speech to the sound of “dogs barking,†or the sudden angry departure of a North Korean diplomat before Trump took to the podium at the U.N., was the question of ordinary North Koreans who, according to rights groups, suffer serious abuses.
Defectors who spoke to South Korean media this week provided graphic details of conditions in political prison camps, where, according to their testimonies, women are executed following rape and unwanted pregnancy, and prisoners are stoned to death.
But all may not be doom and gloom.
Kang Chol-hwan, a defector in Seoul who grew up in a North Korean prison camp, told UPI changes in the country are giving more power to the North Korean people, and the United States must pay more attention to the population and not the regime.
Kang also told UPI that better policy would require some counterintuitive thinking, including on sanctions, and allowing, for example, North Korea to send out its “guest workers,†a move that ultimately exposes them to the outside world
"Then they become 300,000 defectors," Kang said, referring to their growing numbers in countries like China and Russia.
That may have been the question on the minds of many world leaders who were convening in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, following remarks from U.S. President Donald Trump regarding the Kim Jong Un regime.
Trump said if the United States is "forced to defend itself and its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea."
"Rocket man" Kim is "on a suicide mission,†Trump added.
Trump’s unprecedented verbal attack of Kim before a live audience may have had heads spinning.
Following the speech, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres disputed the viability of a military option and said, “We must not sleepwalk our way into war.â€
In a rare move, the North Korean leader issued a statement in response to Trump’s speech, condemning Trump for assembling a string of “eccentric words†that insulted Kim’s dignity and his country of 25 million people.
"Whatever Trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire," Kim said Friday.
Staunch U.S. allies South Korea and Japan, meanwhile, cautiously supported Trump’s statement, with South Korean President Moon Jae-in urging North Korea to “stand on the right side of history.â€
But amid North Korean comparisons of Trump’s speech to the sound of “dogs barking,†or the sudden angry departure of a North Korean diplomat before Trump took to the podium at the U.N., was the question of ordinary North Koreans who, according to rights groups, suffer serious abuses.
Defectors who spoke to South Korean media this week provided graphic details of conditions in political prison camps, where, according to their testimonies, women are executed following rape and unwanted pregnancy, and prisoners are stoned to death.
But all may not be doom and gloom.
Kang Chol-hwan, a defector in Seoul who grew up in a North Korean prison camp, told UPI changes in the country are giving more power to the North Korean people, and the United States must pay more attention to the population and not the regime.
Kang also told UPI that better policy would require some counterintuitive thinking, including on sanctions, and allowing, for example, North Korea to send out its “guest workers,†a move that ultimately exposes them to the outside world
"Then they become 300,000 defectors," Kang said, referring to their growing numbers in countries like China and Russia.
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