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North Korea Shades Trump Over Threath To Destroy The Country.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to totally destroy North Korea has been dismissed by a North Korean organ as an ‘impotent’ threat. In a tweet by the country’s news agency, DPRK, News Service, Trump’s threat was likened to “the twitchings of a dog licking its flea-riddled scrotum”. The tweet also described Trump as an ”international shouting magnate”. Trump in his first speech at the United Nations General Assembly had called North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un a rocket man on a suicide mission, adding that the United States will totally destroy the country  if it fails to stop its nuclear programme. Loud murmurs filled the green-marbled U.N. General Assembly hall when Trump issued his sternest warning yet to North Korea, whose ballistic missile launches and nuclear tests have rattled the globe. Unless North Korea backs down, he said, “We will have no choice than to totally destroy North Korea.” “Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime,” he sa

Read President Buhari's Speech At 72nd UN General Assembly.

Mr. President, Fellow Heads of State and Government, Mr. Secretary-General, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of my country, Nigeria, I congratulate you Mr. President on your election and Mr. Gutteres on his first General Assembly outing as our Secretary-General. I assure you both of my country’s solidarity and cooperation. You will indeed need the cooperation of all member States as we are meeting during extra-ordinarily troubled and dangerous times. Let me also thank former Secretary-General Mr. Ban ki Moon for his service to the United Nations and wish him peaceful retirement. Mr. President, 2. The previous year has witnessed many far-reaching developments. Some of the most significant events include the Iran Nuclear Deal, the Paris Climate Change Agreement and, of grave concern, the North Korean nuclear crisis. Mr. President, 3. I must also commend the UN’s role in helping to settle thousands of innocent civilians caught in the con