North Koreans tag Donald Trump with their own nicknames after his ‘Rocket Man’ jibe at Kim Jong-un – including the ‘Lyin’ King’ and ‘Commander-in-Grief’
Kim's foreign minister Ri Yong-ho attacked the US president during his speech to the UN in New York yesterday
THE North Koreans have their own nickname for Donald Trump after he labelled Kim Jong-un “Rocket Man” – branding him “President Evil”.
The US President used his first speech at the UN this week to taunt the tubby dictator, tagging him with the moniker and saying he was “on a suicide mission”.
But Kim hit back today through his foreign minister Ri Yong-ho, who had a few nicknames of his own for Trump as he addressed the same UN gathering.
Ri branded him “President Evil”, “Commander-in-Grief” and the “'Lyin’ King” as he laid in to the American leader.
His jibes show Trump's “Rocket Man” tag for Kim, who is revered as a God by many of his brainwashed followers, clearly struck a nerve.
Ri told delegates: "Due to his lacking of basic common knowledge and proper sentiment, he tried to insult the supreme dignity of my country by referring it to a rocket.
"By doing so, however, he committed an irreversible mistake of making our rockets' visit to the entire US mainland inevitable all the more."
The minister also called Trump a “gambler who grew old using threats, frauds and all other schemes to acquire a patch of land”.
And he accused the president of turning the White House "into a noisy marketing place," and the UN "into a gangsters' nest where money is respected and bloodshed is the order of the day".
Ri spoke hours after US war planes flew the closest they have been to the pariah state this century in a show of force by the Pentagon.
The B-1B Lancer bombers and a F-15 fighter escorts were in international airspace over waters east of North Korea.
Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said of today's display of air power: "This is the farthest north of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) any U.S. fighter or bomber aircraft have flown off North Korea's coast in the 21st century, underscoring the seriousness with which we take (North Korea's) reckless behaviour.
"This mission is a demonstration of U.S. resolve and a clear message that the President has many military options to defeat any threat.
"We are prepared to use the full range of military capabilities to defend the U.S. homeland and our allies."
The flight follows a week of heightened rhetoric from Washington and Pyongyang, with Trump and Kim Jong Un trading insults.
Trump called the North Korean leader a "madman" on Friday, a day after Kim dubbed him a "mentally deranged US dotard".
Pyongyang conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test on September 3 and has launched dozens of missiles this year as it accelerates a program aimed at enabling it to target the United States with a nuclear-tipped missile.
The North has threatened to test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific.
The Pentagon said the B-1B Lancer bombers came from Guam and the U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagle fighter escorts came from Okinawa, Japan.
It said the operation showed the seriousness with which it took North Korea's "reckless behaviour."
Earlier this week Trump stoked up tensions with Kim Jong-un as he sent a US Navy carrier strike group steaming towards North Korea.
The battle group - including a carrier with dozens of fighter jets and several other warships - is set to arrive next month when it will take part in joint military drills with South Korea and Japan.
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