North Korea: Kim Jong-un again threatens ‘rabid man in White House’, President Donald Trump

KIM Jong-un’s back on the world stage. This time he’s slinging more threats at Donald Trump as tensions with the US intensify.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspecting a launching drill of the medium-and-long range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12. He has today threatened to stage an “unimaginable” strike on the United States. Picture: KCNA via KNS

KIM Jong-un’s back on the world stage. This time he’s being photographed with bright pink sports shoes while slinging more threats at “the rabid man in the White House”.

North Korea’s supreme leader has graced a factory making “modern sports shoes” with his presence, freely doling out advice on how to make a multitude of improvements as eager onlookers took notes.

But the cheerful scene — captured by DPRK’s official press agency — has been released in tandem with yet another violent outburst: Pyonyang could unleash and “unimaginable” strike against the United States at any time.

“The US is running amok by introducing under our nose the targets we have set as primary ones. The US should expect that it would face unimaginable strike at an unimaginable time,” a Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) statement reads.

And he’s starting to sound as though he’s feeling victimised.

“From the very day of the birth of the DPRK, its people have experienced sanctions and pressure, a war without gunfire,” another official statement issued today reads.

It also attempts to rewrite history.

A Korean Central News Agency image released today showing Kim Jong-un inspecting a North Korean shoe factory.

“The DPRK has neither invaded any other country nor attempted to … although it is countering the invasion moves of the sworn enemy US.”

Of course, the Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea.

Communist Russia and China backed Kim Il-sung (Jong-un’s grandfather).

The US and the United Nations rushed to support South Korea.

“The US is different from the DPRK. Historically, it is the chieftain persistently threatening the DPRK,” it adds.

“The rabid man in the White House … will first face the immense volley of nuclear fire if he hopes to settle (this) confrontation with nukes.”

US Army soldiers move during a joint military exercise between the US and South Korea. Picture: AP

‘25 PER CENT CHANCE OF WAR’

The outburst comes as former CIA Director John Brennan warns he sees a 25 per cent chance of US armed conflict with North Korea.

Brennan, who headed the CIA between 2013 and 2017, said: “I can’t see either one of them saying, okay, uncle, you win.”

But China’s role in the crisis has also come in for renewed criticism.

A US commentator claims North Korea has succeeded in its ballistic missile only because of Chinese support.

“They’re weaponising the North,” Asia analyst Gordon Chang said in an interview on Fox Business.

Chinese President Xi Jinping had been “fuelling” Pyongyang with “very important” weapons, equipment and technology, he said.

Chang claimed a missile designed tested three times in the past year appeared to be a variant of China’s JL-1 submarine launched weapons.

“That is something the Trump administration needs to talk to the Chinese about,” he said.

He also claims recent ballistic missile tests were conducted from Chinese-supplied vehicles.

“Those mobile launchers make North Korea a real threat because their missiles can now hide,” he said.