N.Korea says rockets to U.S. ‘inevitable’ after Trump dubs Kim ‘rocket man’
24 September 2017 |
6:00 am
North Korea’s foreign minister warns that the country will fire rockets on the US mainland because of U.S. President Donald Trump dubbing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “rocket man”.
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