North Korea FM calls Trump threat ⚠️ a 'dog's bark'

North Korea's foreign minister brushed aside US President Donald Trump's threat to destroy his country, comparing it to a "dog's bark".

Trump used his maiden address at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to warn Pyongyang that Washington would "totally destroy" it if the US or its allies were attacked.

Arriving in New York for the UN meetings on Wednesday, Ri Yong-ho, the North Korean foreign minister, was mobbed with questions from reporters about the Trump speech and he replied with a proverb.

North Korea says it needs a sturdy nuclear deterrence to protect it from an aggressive US, and the autocratic regime has made militarism a central part of its national ideology.

The country's stated aim is to be able to target the US mainland and the nation has flaunted the advances in its weapons programme in recent weeks, with the September test of what it said was a miniaturised hydrogen bomb capable of being loaded onto a rocket.

UCJ, UNILORIN.