President Trump tweeted Friday morning, hours after Kim Jong-un in a statement called the US leader "mentally deranged."
President Trump tweeted early Friday morning, shortly after the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, called him "mentally deranged."
"Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!" Trump said in his tweet.
Hours prior, the regime’s official news agency issued a statement from Kim.
“The mentally deranged behavior of the U.S. president openly expressing on the UN arena the unethical will to 'totally destroy' a sovereign state, beyond the boundary of threats of regime change or overturn of social system, makes even those with normal thinking faculty think about discretion and composure," the North Korean leader said in part.
Kim is referring to a part of Trump’s United Nations speech on Tuesday, where he said, “The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”
The regime’s leader reportedly added, “Whatever Trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation.”
His fiery response comes on the heels of Trump’s speech and a subsequent announcement that the U.S. will be instituting new sanctions aimed at entities that do business with North Korea.
