Kim Jong-Un: North Korea will consider utmost measures equal to Trump's comments that were a "war declaration"

Felipe Erazo FXStreet

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is hitting the wires, via KCNA, stating that U.S. President Donald Trump's address at the United Nations confirmed the North's nuclear, missile advances have been the right path, and will continue until the end.

More headlines (via Reuters):

Says North Korea will consider utmost measures equal to Trump's comments that were a "war declaration"
Says US President Donald Trump is "mentally deranged"
North will consider "corresponding, highest level of hard-line measure in history" against US

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Felipe Erazo

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Born in Colombia, Felipe Erazo is the American Session Manager at FXStreet. He has been studying journalism with a degree in social communication at the Universidad de Chile.

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