The letter from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) via the Jakarta embassy.
“The Foreign Affairs Committee … bitterly condemns the reckless remarks of Trump as an intolerable insult to the Korean people, a declaration of war against the DPRK and a grave threat to the global peace,” the letter reads.
“From the first day of his office, Trump has engaged himself in highhanded and arbitrary practice, scrapping international laws and agreements incurring his displeasure on the ‘US-first principle’, the height of American way of thinking that is best if the US is well-off at the expense of the whole world.
“If Trump thinks that he would bring the DPRK, a nuclear power, to its knees through nuclear war threat, it will be a big miscalculation and an expression of ignorance.”
Read the letter on SMH
“Ri Jong-ho, a North Korean defector who previously ran an international network of North Korean businesses, claims the current sanctions could devastate the hermit dictatorship.
He told crowds at an Asia Society event in New York: “The sanctions that the White House has imposed on North Korea are of a historic level.
“Never before has the country faced such tough sanctions. I don’t know if North Korea will survive a year with these sanctions. People will die.”
Mr Ri used to be in charge of North Korean tactics to get around UN sanctions, but defected with his family in 2014.”
It seems US pressure on China to impose sanctions is having an effect . It’s only China that can sort out this mad man.