North Korea ended its silence on President Trumps Asia tour, publishing a commentary that condemned a “warmonger’s visit” with the goal of ending the nation’s effort to create a “self-defensive” nuclear weapons program.
North Korea hasn’t had much to say publicly about President Trump ’s 12-day Asia tour, including his tough criticism of the communist country during a speech to South Korea’s national legislature.
That changed Saturday.
A spokesman for North Korea’s foreign ministry published a lengthy and incendiary commentary, condemning Trump for a “warmonger’s visit” with the goal of ending the nation’s effort to create a “self-defensive” nuclear weapons program.
“It is also nothing but a business trip by a warmonger to enrich the monopolies of the U. S. defense industry by milking the moneybags from its subordinate ‘allies,’” read the commentary, published in state media.
The statement, which called the country’s nuclear program “righteous and inevitable,” continued: “He boasted about the ‘overwhelming superiority of U. S. power’ and ‘peace through strength.’ But he needs to be well advised that it is the stand of the DPRK to defend our sovereignty and rights to existence and development by keeping a real balance of force with the U.
