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DonViejo

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Sun Oct 15, 2017, 08:49 AM Oct 2017

North Korea calls Trump a 'strangler of peace'

Source: CNN




By Brad Lendon, CNN
Updated 7:30 AM ET, Sun October 15, 2017

(CNN)North Korea continued its harsh anti-US rhetoric Sunday, calling President Donald Trump a "war merchant and strangler of peace."

The administration of US President Donald Trump is selling weapons to South Korea and Japan with the intent of enriching the makers of US arms while creating "a hair trigger situation" on the Korean Peninsula, said a commentary from state newspaper Rodong Sinmun posted by the Korean Central News Agency.

In September, a week after Pyongyang fired a test missile over Japan, Trump said he would give allies increased access to US weaponry.

"I am allowing Japan & South Korea to buy a substantially increased amount of highly sophisticated military equipment from the United States," Trump tweeted on September 5.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/15/asia/us-north-korea-tensions/index.html

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North Korea calls Trump a 'strangler of peace' (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2017 OP
Another accurate moniker. dalton99a Oct 2017 #1
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