North Korea’s foreign minister said Monday that President Trump had declared war on his country, and that Pyongyang had the right to shoot down US bombers even if they were not in the nation’s air space.
“The whole world should clearly remember it was the US who first declared war on our country,” Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told reporters in New York.
“Since the United States declared war on our country, we will have every right to make countermeasures, including the right to shoot down United States strategic bombers even when they are not inside the airspace border of our country.”
The threats came a day after a North Korean parliamentary committee sent a letter to several international parliaments condemning Trump’s sabre rattling.
The letter sent on Sunday condemned Trump, calling his speech at the UN last week “ignorant.”
Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea and its 25 million people and called North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un “Rocket Man” — remarks that he reportedly ad-libbed while veering off script from his prepared remarks, which had been vetted by his top national security officials.
Pyongyang said Trump’s comments were an “intolerable insult to the Korean people, a declaration of war against the DPRK and grave threats to the global peace.”
“If Trump thinks that he would bring the DPRK, a nuclear power to its knees through nuclear war threat, it is a big miscalculation and ignorance,” the letter published by the state controlled media outlet KCNA read.
The US had sent bombers and fighter escorts on missions close to the communist dictatorship in a show of strength as tensions escalated following Trump’s increasingly bellicose remarks over the North’s nuclear weapons program.
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