I said before the weekend, I think in a comment, that I expected North Korea to respond to Trump’s threat of nuclear war over the weekend. I was off by a few days.
Another all-tweet post, sorry. There should be a more readable form of the statement in a bit.
KCNA: "Choe Son Hui, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, issued the following press statement on Thursday: At an interview with Fox News on May 21, the U.S. Vice-President Pence has made unbridled and impudent remarks that north Korea might end like Libya…and so on."
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) May 24, 2018
KCNA: "As a person involved in the U.S. affairs, I cannot suppress my surprise at such ignorant and stupid remarks gushing out from the mouth of the U.S. vice-president."
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) May 24, 2018
KCNA: "If he is vice-president of 'single superpower' as is in name, it will be proper for him to know even a little bit about the current state of global affairs and to sense to a certain degree the trends in dialogue and the climate of detente."
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) May 24, 2018
KCNA: "We could surmise more than enough what a political dummy he is as he is trying to compare the DPRK, a nuclear weapon state, to Libya that had simply installed a few items of equipment and fiddled around with them."
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) May 24, 2018
KCNA: "Soon after the White House National Security Adviser Bolton made the reckless remarks, Vice-President Pence has again spat out nonsense that the DPRK would follow in Libya's footstep."
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) May 24, 2018
KCNA: "In view of the remarks of the U.S. high-ranking politicians who have not yet woken up to this stark reality and compare the DPRK to Libya that met a tragic fate, I come to think that they know too little about us."
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) May 24, 2018
KCNA: "To borrow their words, we can also make the U.S. taste an appalling tragedy it has neither experienced nor even imagined up to now."
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) May 24, 2018
KCNA: "It is the U.S. who has asked for dialogue, but now it is misleading the public opinion as if we have invited them to sit with us. I only wonder what is the ulterior motive behind its move and what is it the U.S. has calculated to gain from that."
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) May 24, 2018
KCNA: "We will neither beg the U.S. for dialogue nor take the trouble to persuade them if they do not want to sit together with us. Whether the U.S. will meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown is entirely dependent upon the decision…of the U.S."
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) May 24, 2018
KCNA: "In case the U.S. offends against our goodwill and clings to unlawful and outrageous acts, I will put forward a suggestion to our supreme leadership for reconsidering the DPRK-U.S. summit."
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) May 24, 2018
Here's the transcript of the Fox News interview that Mike Pence gave earlier this week that the N. Koreans were displeased by. "This will only end like the Libya Model ended if Kim Jong-un doesn't make a deal."https://t.co/dL9kbN8dQu
— Jonathan Cheng (@JChengWSJ) May 24, 2018
