Trump Threatens To 'Totally Destroy' North Korea In UN Speech

By Red Painter — September 19, 2017

Donald Trump gave a fiery speech at the United Nations today, covering a range of topics from Syria to terrorism to "America First" and North Korea. His comments about North Korea were the most aggressive, with Trump reupping his "Rocket Man" taunt. Oh, and he threatened to totally destroy the country, calling North Korea "depraved"

Pres. Trump: If the US must defend itself or its allies, “we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea” https://t.co/BgSUML4in6 pic.twitter.com/oHlSgHuawv

— CNN (@CNN) September 19, 2017

And he said that Kim Jong-Un is a “Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime”

Trump, referring to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un: “Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime” https://t.co/GTAZY6y6tI pic.twitter.com/sdGgelbksa

— CNN (@CNN) September 19, 2017

Fantastic twitter responses

So... Donald Trump says we may totally annihilate North Korea and also something about peace and planet Earth... yeah this is all fine.

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) September 19, 2017

At UN Trump threatened to commit a war crime: "totally destroy North Korea."

— Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) September 19, 2017

YUP

Trump threatens to destroy North Korea & calls its leader a “rocket man." In other words, he is poking North Korea to distract from Russia.

— PROUD RESISTER 👊 (@ProudResister) September 19, 2017

There was a gasp in UN media centre when Trump said "we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea [if they don’t change].”

— Paul Danahar (@BBCDanahar) September 19, 2017

Let's see how "Rocket Man" reacts.

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