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Wed Sep 20, 2017, 09:58 AM Sep 2017

North Korea is likely to fire more missiles after Trumps speech, experts say

TOKYO — Kim Jong Un’s regime tells the North Korean people every day that the United States wants to destroy them and their country. Now, they will hear it from another source: from the president of the United States himself.

In his maiden address to the United Nations on Tuesday, President Trump threatened to “totally destroy North Korea.” Analysts noted that he didn’t even differentiate between the Kim regime, as President George W. Bush did with his infamous “axis of evil” speech, and the 25 million people of North Korea.

“President Trump has handed the North Koreans the sound bite of the century,” said Marcus Noland, of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and one of the authors of its “North Korea: Witness to Transformation” blog. “That footage will be used time and time and time again on North Korea’s state television channel.”

Since the Korean War ended in an armistice in 1953, the Kim regime has portrayed the United States as an “imperialist aggressor” pursuing “hostile policy” to crush North Korea — again. To keep control of and unify the populace, the regime has kept alive the memories of the Korean War, when the U.S. destroyed 80 percent of all the buildings in the North and killed as many as 20 percent of its people.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/north-korea-is-likely-to-fire-more-missiles-after-trump%E2%80%99s-speech-experts-say/ar-AAsfCOm?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

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