North Korea accuses Donald Trump of being a ‘spasm of a lunatic’

President Donald Trump on Friday agreed to again waive USA nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, but demanded that U.S. lawmakers and European allies fix the “disastrous flaws” in the deal.

Japan, Korea, others on a regular basis. This wasn’t about a deal, but solidarity behind a tough message: North Korea must denuclearize. South Korea was anxious that North Korea might try to disrupt the Games and had a reason to talk. Nothing to eat. No running water.

Pyongyang said following that launch as well that that it had test-fired its most advanced missile, putting the USA mainland within range, and also declared itself to be “a responsible nuclear power”.

North Korean ice hockey players.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the current administration recognizes the challenge.

Trump told Reuters that he would be open to sit down the North Korean leader, but remained skeptical whether “sitting down will solve the problem”, adding that he hopes the standoff could be solved “in a peaceful way, but it’s very possible that it can’t”. “He abandoned the failed policy of strategic patience. And by the way, the Chinese view us this way as well”. We can not afford to sit on the sidelines or remain silent.

North Korea agreed to send a delegation to the February 9-25 Winter Olympics in the South Korean city of Pyeongchang and hold military talks aimed at reducing frontline animosities.

Trump doubles down calling the North Korean dictator “little rocket man“.

The tweet by Trump followed Kim’s claim that his country has developed the capability to hit the entire US mainland with its nuclear weapons.

They said, however, that North Korea had not yet offered any proof that it had mastered all technical hurdles, including development of a re-entry vehicle needed to deliver a heavy nuclear warhead reliably atop an ICBM, but it was likely that it soon would.

US President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony to present the Congressional Gold Medal to former Republican US Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, at the US Capitol on January 17, 2018 in Washington, DC.

A New York Times editorial made a similar warning, noting that apart from Trump’s nuclear threats against North Korea and Iran, Trump wants to increase the massive United States nuclear arsenal and develop more “low-yield” nuclear weapons that could be more “useable” in smaller conflicts. Our efforts, our threats, our daily absorption arguably could be doing more harm than good.

“A U.N. human rights spokeswoman was unable to confirm receipt of North Korea’s September 28 letter about the proposed visits, addressed to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, a copy of which was seen by Reuters”.