North Korea blasts Donald Trump’s ‘arrogant’ and ‘dogmatic’ State of the Union speech

US: North Korea has slammed US president Donald Trump’s State of the Union address saying its nuclear capabilities would “deter Trump and his lackeys from showing off on the Korean peninsula”.

In his address last week, Trump said that “no regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea.

We need only look at the depraved character of the North Korean regime to understand the nature of the nuclear threat it could pose to America and to our allies, Trump said.

But on Sunday, a North Korean foreign ministry official shot back at Trump saying;

If Trump does not get rid of his anachronistic and dogmatic way of thinking, it will only bring about the consequence of further endangering (the) security and future of the United States.

The official disputed Trump’s claim in his address that the US had “achieved extraordinary success” over the past year, calling it “the height of Trump-style arrogance, arbitrariness and self-conceit”.

Trump in his speech also said that the US was “waging a campaign of maximum pressure” to prevent North Korea from being able to attack the US with nuclear weapons.

But the foreign ministry official said North Korea has “self-reliant defence capability with the nuclear force as its backbone”.