11 November 2016

News Story: North Korea statement on Trump’s victory

After Donald Tump had won the 2016 historic United States presidential elections on Wednesday, November 9, North korea, for its part, said the Trump administration will have to deal with a “nuclear state.”

An editorial carried by the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun, said Washington’s push for denuclearization was an “outdated illusion”.

“If there is anything the Obama administration has done… it has put the security of the US mainland in the greatest danger,” it said.

“It has burdened the new administration with the difficulty of facing the Juche nuclear state,” it said, referring to the North Korean ideology usually translated as “self-reliance”.

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