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North Korea Brands President Trump an ‘Erratic Old Man’

Pyongyang’s statements about Trump have become increasingly personal and aggressive in recent weeks.

North Korea has ridiculed President Donald Trump once again—this time calling him a “heedless and erratic old man.” Trump and Kim Jong Un appear to have hit a rough patch in their relationship of late and the countries have been exchanging insults like its 2017. This time, North Korea has taken exception to a Sunday tweet from Trump that stated Kim is “too smart and has far too much to lose” by acting in a hostile way toward him. In a Monday statement, a senior North Korean official, former nuclear negotiator Kim Yong Chol, said: “As [Trump] is such a heedless and erratic old man, the time when we cannot but call him a ‘dotard’ again may come.” He went on: “Though the U.S. may take away anything more from us, it can never remove the strong sense of self-respect, might, and resentment against the U.S. from us.” North Korea has been issuing increasingly aggressive statements ahead of an end-of-year deadline set by Kim for Washington to salvage nuclear talks between the countries.