North Korea likens Donald Trump to barking dog
In the first official comments from North Korea after Trump had issued his starkest warning yet to Pyongyang, Ri said, "There is a saying that goes: 'Even when dogs bark, the parade goes on.'"
Ri told reporters near the UN headquarters in New York, "If they are trying to shock us with the sound of a dog's bark they are clearly having a dog dream."
Asked by reporters what he thought of Trump calling North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "rocket man," Ri said, "I feel sorry for his aides." Ri is expected to make a UN speech on Friday.
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A war of words is rising between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
The two leaders have been exchanging unusually personal insults as international pressure on North Korea grows.
The latest examples came on Friday, when Kim called Trump a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard.” Dotard is not used very much in American English. So it quickly became a top search word on Google Trends, and a much-discussed term on social media.
America’s Merriam Webster dictionary describes dotard as “a person in his or her dotage.” Britain’s Oxford defines the word as “an old person, especially one who has become weak or senile.”
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Trump hits back after North Korea brands him 'a mentally deranged megalomaniac'
The US President has warned Pyongyang after it derided him as 'mentally deranged'
The US President warned Pyongyang's foreign minister that if "he echoes thoughts" of the country's leader Kim Jong Un they both "won't be around much longer".
He was responding after Ri Yong Ho told the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday that targeting the US mainland with its rockets was inevitable after "Mr Evil President" made an "irreversible mistake" by calling Mr Kim "rocket man".
Describing Mr Trump as a "mentally deranged person full of megalomania," Mr Ri went on to tell the annual gathering of world leaders that the country was now "only a few steps away from the final gate of completion of the state's nuclear force".
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Seeing the North Korean Stalemate From the Other Side
In Mr. Choe’s telling, North Korea was driven to become a nuclear power in self-defense against America’s “nuclear blackmail,” sanctions, history of confrontation, and affront to the sovereignty and dignity of the state. The North must establish “a balance of power” to hold Washington at bay, finally replace the Korean War armistice with a permanent peace treaty and focus attention on economic development, he said. Therein seemed to be the answer to my question of whether and under what circumstances the North would be open to talks. Only when Washington makes a “bold decision” to end its military exercises with South Korea, halt sanctions and cease moves that diplomatically isolate North Korea can a dialogue between the two countries bear fruit, he added.
Our interviews have persuaded me that it is also imperative for Washington to ease up on the rhetoric. Mr. Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month crossed a line for many North Koreans because it made the fight deeply personal, disparaging Mr. Kim as “rocket man” and threatening to “totally destroy North Korea,” a country of 26 million people.
The Trump administration insists there can be no talks until the North halts missile and nuclear tests for an unspecified period. Hence, stalemate, and a dangerous one. Allowing the shouting match and muscle-flexing on both sides to gather momentum can come to no good.
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Doddering Dotards
You know something’s amiss when American social media wax gleeful over a North Korean dictator’s chosen insult for the American president. Last week, Kim Jong-un’s choice of the word dotard to describe Donald Trump prompted a moment of confusion followed by a rush to the dictionary. Merriam-Webster’s Twitter feed had a field day.
Before we get to etymology, it’s worth observing some cultural background. On the one hand, Korean culture puts great emphasis on respect for one’s elders, for whom one uses a different “level of language.” On the other hand, North Korean officials have been imaginative in their insults toward U.S. leaders for some time. They’ve called Barack Obama “a monkey in a tropical forest,” Nikki Haley “a political prostitute,” and Trump a “frightened dog,” “a gangster,” “that mad guy,” and “bereft of reason.” Apparently, an elderly person who indulges in schoolyard taunts himself (“Rocket Man,” “nutjob”) loses his claim to any elevated level of address.
English speakers have not generally shown such great respect to the elderly. As early as 1430, John Lydgate had one of his animal characters, in “Horse, Goose and Sheep,” say “I trowe he be falle in Dotage” — dotage being the state of being intellectually impaired, generally through old age. But the noun form, dotard, apparently peaked during Shakespeare’s time, and its continuing decline has tracked the decline of dotage generally. Perhaps we’ve grown more polite over time, or perhaps the term has grown increasingly pejorative.
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Trump says North Korean leader 'will be tested like never before'
Kim Jong-un said Donald Trump will be tamed with fire
North Korea's Kim Jong-un "will be tested like never before," US President Donald Trump said as the two leaders continued to trade insults and Pyongyang threatened to test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean.
Mr Kim called Mr Trump "mentally deranged" and vowed to make him pay dearly for threatening to destroy his country hours after the US imposed fresh sanctions over Pyongyang's weapons programmes.
Mr Trump issued his response on Twitter:
"Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!"read more
Trump: North Korean leader ‘will be tested like never before’
US President Donald Trump says North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "will be tested like never before," as the two leaders continue trading insults and Pyongyang threatened to test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean.
"Kim Jong-un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before," Trump tweeted Friday.
Trump's latest insult came one day after he imposed additional sanctions on Pyongyang.
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Trump calls Kim Jong Un a "madman," says he'll be "tested like never before"
President Trump on Friday called North Korea's dictator a "madman" and said that he will be "tested like never before."
"Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!"Mr. Trump issued the threat on Twitter after the regime's leader, Kim Jong Un, responded to the president's speech before the United Nations General Assembly in which he said the U.S. could "totally destroy North Korea."
On the sidelines of a U.N. gathering Thursday, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said that Pyongyang may consider testing a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean in response to the U.S. expanding sanctions against the regime. Kim called Mr. Trump "deranged" Friday and said that he will "pay dearly" for his threats.
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‘Bad dude,’ ‘Rocket Man,’ ‘dotard’: History of taunts between Trump and Kim
The war of words between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un has escalated in recent days after Trump’s comments at the U.N. General Assembly. But the colorful exchange of verbal taunts between the two leaders go back months. Here’s a look at the insults and threats exchanged between Trump and Kim (and other North Korean officials).
What Trump said:
- The most recent verbal sparring began after Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday where he referred to Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man” and said the North Korean leader “is on a suicide mission for himself.”
- That sparked a response from Kim Jon Un Friday, who read a lengthy statement broadcast on North Korea state television in which he called Trump a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard.”
- Trump’s response on Twitter? The North Korean dictator is “obviously a madman” and “will be tested like never before.”
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Kim Jong Un calls Trump 'dotard'; people could not agree more
Who knew that a tongue-lashing between two world leaders will make us go through dictionary pages frantically to learn new words? As a reply to US President Donald Trump's speech at the UN, North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong Un released an official statement on September 21 through Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). The statement was pretty much according to people's expectations, with Kim calling Trump "mentally deranged", "rogue", and "gangster". However, there was a tiny exception towards the end.
A specific sentence stood out: "Action is the best option in treating the dotard who, hard of hearing, is uttering only what he wants to say." The statement ended like this; "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire."
The new English word 'dotard', which is actually not that new, took the internet by storm, creating trends in social media. It seems political leaders are ensuring our vocabulary keeps flourishing. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines 'dotard' as a word dating back to the 14th century, which means "a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness."
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Ri Yong-ho calls Donald Trump threat a 'dog's bark'
North Korea's foreign minister has brushed aside US President Donald Trump's threat to destroy his country, comparing it to a "dog's bark". Trump used his maiden address at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to warn Pyongyang that Washington would "totally destroy" it if the US or its allies were attacked.
Arriving in New York for the UN meetings on Wednesday, Ri Yong-ho, the North Korean foreign minister, was mobbed with questions from reporters about the Trump speech and he replied with a proverb.
"There is a saying that marching goes on even when dogs bark," he said as he entered his hotel. "If they are trying to shock us with the sound of a dog's bark they are clearly having a dog dream."
related: US - North Korea to be 'destroyed' if behaviour continues
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Kim Jong-un calls Donald Trump a ‘dotard’ and Twitterati lost their calm
People around the world have their eyes glued to the tussle between the USA and North Korea. With US President Donald Trump launching a scathing attack on the Korean leader at the UNGA and describing him as a “Rocket Man” on a “suicide mission”, it was only about time there was a response. And in his response, Kim Jong-un called the POTUS “the mentally deranged US dotard.”
Soon, the word grabbed the attention of the people on the Internet trying to find out what it really means. Tweeple went berserk to find the meaning and many thought it was a perfect reply to Trump’s cofeve. However, unlike the US President’s word, this really has a meaning.
As people were busy decoding it’s meaning and cracking jokes, social media team of Merriam-Webster came to rescue providing a meaning of the word. On Twitter, seeing the high usage of the word, they wrote: “Kim Jong Un calls Trump a mentally deranged U.S. dotard. Searches for ‘dotard’ are high as a kite.” The word means, a person in his or her dotage. Dotage meaning “a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness.”
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Bill Maher Ridicules Donald Trump Over His Feud With Kim Jong Un
Bill Maher is trying to see the funny side of the escalating war of words between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un.
“I love Kim, he called Trump a ‘dotard,’ which is one of those words that people have stopped using, like presidential,” the “Real Time” host joked Friday, in reference to Kim’s response to Trump calling him “Rocket Man” on Twitter and at the United Nations earlier this week.
“It’s from Shakespeare,” Maher added, before explaining for Trump’s benefit that “Shakespeare was a guy a long time ago, he wrote plays.” Plays, Maher further explained, were “like a movie but the people are really there.”
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Dotard — Kim’s derogatory reference to Trump — mean?
It is a translation of Korean word ‘neukdari’and the North Korean leader alluded to the US President as either a “crazy old man” or an “old lunatic.”
Famous for using bombastic, derogatory and often-awkward English slams against enemies, North Korean state media sent people scrambling for dictionaries on Friday with a dispatch that quotes leader Kim Jong Un calling President Donald Trump “the mentally deranged U.S. dotard.”
Dotard is a translation of a Korean word, “neukdari,” which is a derogatory reference to an old person.
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How the world’s cartoonists are skewering the Trump vs. Kim war of words
President Trump “will face results beyond his expectation,” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in a statement this week released by the Korean Central News Agency.
Kim “will be tested like never before!” Trump replied Friday in a tweet. Kim calls Trump a “dotard.” Trump calls Kim a “madman.”
And so it goes in this rising battle of bellicose threats, linguistic petards and name-calling that registers as oddly personal — as if these are not nations rattling their sabers, but rather two men still flexing their incipient sense of power.
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Kim Jong Un Calls President Trump ‘Dotard’ and ‘Frightened Dog’
North Korea's leader called President Donald Trump "a frightened dog" and a "gangster fond of playing with fire" in an official statement released Thursday. Kim Jong Un responded to Trump's United Nations speech in a dispatch written in the first person. South Korea's government said it was the first such direct address to the world by any North Korean leader.
"Far from making remarks of any persuasive power that can be viewed to be helpful to defusing tension, he made unprecedented rude nonsense one has never heard from any of his predecessors," Kim said. "A frightened dog barks louder."
Hours later, North Korea's foreign minister reportedly said his country may test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean to fulfill Kim's vow to take the "highest-level" action against the United States.
related: How the North Korea Crisis Has Unfolded Under Trump
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What the Hell Is a Dotard, and What Are Trump and Kim Jong-Un Fighting About Now?
Trump, never one to allow discretion or global safety to get in the way of a sick burn, responded by dismissing Kim Jong-un as "obviously a madman" who would, at some ominously vague point in the future, "be tested like never before." You probably have some questions about this baffling display of thesaurus-assisted nuclear brinksmanship, and as always, we here at GQ have helpfully prepared your quick-reference answers. So, wait. "Dotard"?
Yes! [Public speaking gimmick voice] Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines "dotard" as "a person in his or her dotage," which, in turn, is "a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness." Oxford is a bit less generous in its description, adding that "dotard" especially refers to someone who has become "weak and senile." Journalists in the area kindly clarified on Twitter that Kim Jong-un's original phrase that eventually became "dotard" translates most closely into English as "lunatic old man" or "old beast lunatic," both of which are actually even funnier than "dotard," if admittedly less pithy.
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Dotard: Kim Jong-un’s latest insult to Donald Trump roughly translates as “old lunatic beast”
After the US president referred to Kim as “Rocket Man” during his maiden address at the UN General Assembly this week, Kim fired back today (Sept. 22) with an even more peculiar insult: dotard. In a public statement translated into English by North Korean news outlet KCNA, the dictator wrote:
- Now that Trump has denied the existence of and insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world and made the most ferocious declaration of a war in history that he would destroy the DPRK, we will consider with seriousness exercising of a corresponding, highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history.
- Action is the best option in treating the dotard who, hard of hearing, is uttering only what he wants to say.
- I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire.
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‘Rocket Man’ called Donald Trump a what? What ‘dotard’ means and how it was translated
The North Korean retaliation was all but inevitable after U.S. President Donald Trump name-called its leader, Kim Jong Un. And so, after Trump launched his insult, calling Kim “Rocket Man” during a speech to the UN this week, the president’s target fired back with — dotard.
What? Kim’s missive was a first-person statement delivered in Korean and later translated into English as “mentally deranged U.S. dotard,” the last word of which had many running to the dictionary. The translation – and, therefore, the use of the medieval term – came from the official translation of the state-run media.
There was a massive uptick in online lookups for the word, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary; on Friday, one day after Kim broadcast his statement on North Korean state media, the term was still at the top of the dictionary’s online list of trending words.
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Trump: Rex Tillerson is wasting his time negotiating with 'Little Rocket Man'
President Trump on Sunday said Rex Tillerson is "wasting his time" by trying to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in a tweet that appeared to undercut his own secretary of State's diplomatic efforts to resolve the nuclear standoff.
“I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man,” the president tweeted, using his nickname for North Korea's leader. “Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!”
Later on Sunday, Trump tweeted: "Being nice to Rocket Man hasn't worked in 25 years, why would it work now? Clinton failed, Bush failed, and Obama failed. I won't fail."
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President Trump to Rocket Man: I Won't Fail
This message comes after President Trump stated earlier that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was "wasting his time" in negotiating with the rotund rabble rouser. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Sec. of State Tillerson said that the U.S. government has a "couple" of direct lines of communication with North Korea.
President Trump has been remarkably consistent in his hardline stance against North Korea since 1999.
As President Trump noted, President Clinton failed to prevent the North Koreans from acquiring the tools needed to build a nuclear weapon after handing them a $4 billion aid package.
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'Take That, Rocket Man': Curbing the Trump-Kim insult arms race
The nuclear posturing between the U.S. and North Korea has degraded into a hurl of trash talk. It's as if Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un were wrestlers facing a grudge match refereed by Dennis Rodman — which, come to think of it, might be an appropriate way to defuse things.
How could international differences not get so personal? On the one hand, you have a dictator perceived as a living deity by 25 million cowed subjects. On the other is a mammoth egoist with famously thin skin. Add Twitter, state television, and all the world's media outlets, and the result is a high-pitched clash, even if it's not exactly between titans.
What's struck me is how lame the insults have been from both sides. OK, President Trump gets points for referencing Kim as "Little Rocket Man," which I interpret as a direct hit to the North Korean's sexual prowess. And a nod to Kim for calling Trump a "mentally deranged dotard," putting the man from Pyongyang in large company alongside those questioning the President's faculties and command of reality
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Policy Via Twitter: Trump Says Tillerson “Wasting His Time” Talking to North Korea
President Donald Trump made it public on Sunday that he has some significant disagreements with his own secretary of state. In two tweets, Trump told Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that he was wasting his time trying to launch any type of negotiations with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-Un. It marked a public undercutting of the top American diplomat only a day after he told reporters that the United States has direct contact with some North Korean officials to explore whether any type of negotiations would be possible.
Trump was apparently none too happy that Tillerson talked to reporters about the attempted negotiations, writing that he has told “our wonderful secretary of State” that he “is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man.”
The commander in chief went on to directly address his secretary of State through the public forum: “Save your energy Rex, we’ll do what has to be done!” The remark was seen as the latest in a series of threats by Trump against the North Korean leader.
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Trump says it’s a waste of time trying to negotiate with ‘Little Rocket Man
Donald Trump has dubbed Kim Jong-Un ‘Little Rocket Man’ and threatened: ‘We’ll do what has to be done!’ He delivered the latest update on Twitter, coming up with the nickname which probably won’t do much to calm tensions.
‘I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man…,’ the first tweet read. ‘…
Save your energy Rex, we’ll do what has to be done!’ The tweets come a day after Tillerson said the United States was directly communicating with North Korea on its nuclear and missile programs but that Pyongyang had shown no interest in dialogue.
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The 'frightened dog' and the 'rocket man': Trump-Kim war of words causes rising tensions
U.S. President Donald Trump's promise of military action during his UN address obviously touched a nerve in Pyongyang, triggering a similarly direct and dismissive response from an offended Kim Jong-un, writes CBC's Saša Petricic in analysing the impact of their war of word
As luck would have it, the day U.S. President Donald Trump took the stage at the United Nations to threaten North Korea, North Korean diplomats were given seats right in front of him. Front row, almost centre, based on a UN lottery that assigns spots.
This was the closest the two countries could have come to face-to-face talks since Trump became president last November. But the General Assembly delegation in New York City walked out before Trump arrived, leaving only a junior diplomat to hear the climax, where the president promised to "destroy North Korea" if the "rocket man" — as Trump calls North Korean leader Kim Jong-un — doesn't back down from his threats to hit the U.S mainland with a nuclear missile.
Kim's weapons development program seems to be getting close to producing a rocket that could do that, as Pyongyang has demonstrated with more than a dozen missile tests this year and an underground nuclear explosion. U.S. intelligence estimates North Korea will have the capability to attack the United States within a year.
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‘Rocket Man’ shot a rare and risky misfire for Trump: Menon
There aren’t many insult comics who are better than Donald J. Trump. Whatever you think of his leadership style, his put-down style is without peer in global politics. After deciding to run for public office, Trump elevated his dig-and-jibe game, moving past such generic nouns as “losers” and “haters.”
The genius of this evolving invective was in how he, almost instinctively, reduced an adversary to caricature by magnifying perceived defects and weaknesses. Trump created tweet- and meme-friendly nicknames by prefacing his enemies with demeaning adjectives and intransitive verbs: “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz, “Little Marco” Rubio. “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, “Crazy Bernie” Sanders.
These insults were effective because they were offensive to the target. They worked because they could, under no circumstance, be interpreted as compliments.
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Trump's 'Rocket Man' insult hits the wrong note
Surely, the Insulter in Chief can do better than “Rocket Man” when mocking a world leader threatening nuclear war
Hurling snide nicknames to belittle critics and weaken political opponents helped propel President Donald Trump to the White House. Crooked Hillary. Little Marco. Lyin’ Ted. Low-energy Jeb. Cryin’ Chuck Schumer.
Trump’s nanny-nanny-boo-boo-style political attacks are usually a Twitter-friendly mix of catchy and demeaning.
That’s why “Rocket Man” – Trump’s nickname for North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong Un – fell so flat. Instead of insulting the despot who conducts missile tests that threaten the U.S. and its allies, Trump managed to make him sound cool.
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WTF Is a 'Dotard'? Here's How Everyone Reacted to Kim Jong-un Burning Donald Trump
On Sunday night, Donald Trump sent out one of his more bizarre tweets of late, wherein he created another bizarre Trumpian nickname for North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un, in line with other famous nicknames such as "Crooked Hillary" and "Lyin' Ted Cruz." Trump referred to Kim Jong-un as "Rocket Man."
Trump says it’s a waste of time trying to negotiate with ‘Little Rocket Man
Donald Trump has dubbed Kim Jong-Un ‘Little Rocket Man’ and threatened: ‘We’ll do what has to be done!’ He delivered the latest update on Twitter, coming up with the nickname which probably won’t do much to calm tensions.
‘I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man…,’ the first tweet read. ‘…
Save your energy Rex, we’ll do what has to be done!’ The tweets come a day after Tillerson said the United States was directly communicating with North Korea on its nuclear and missile programs but that Pyongyang had shown no interest in dialogue.
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The 'frightened dog' and the 'rocket man': Trump-Kim war of words causes rising tensions
As luck would have it, the day U.S. President Donald Trump took the stage at the United Nations to threaten North Korea, North Korean diplomats were given seats right in front of him. Front row, almost centre, based on a UN lottery that assigns spots.
This was the closest the two countries could have come to face-to-face talks since Trump became president last November. But the General Assembly delegation in New York City walked out before Trump arrived, leaving only a junior diplomat to hear the climax, where the president promised to "destroy North Korea" if the "rocket man" — as Trump calls North Korean leader Kim Jong-un — doesn't back down from his threats to hit the U.S mainland with a nuclear missile.
Kim's weapons development program seems to be getting close to producing a rocket that could do that, as Pyongyang has demonstrated with more than a dozen missile tests this year and an underground nuclear explosion. U.S. intelligence estimates North Korea will have the capability to attack the United States within a year.
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‘Rocket Man’ shot a rare and risky misfire for Trump: Menon
There aren’t many insult comics who are better than Donald J. Trump. Whatever you think of his leadership style, his put-down style is without peer in global politics. After deciding to run for public office, Trump elevated his dig-and-jibe game, moving past such generic nouns as “losers” and “haters.”
The genius of this evolving invective was in how he, almost instinctively, reduced an adversary to caricature by magnifying perceived defects and weaknesses. Trump created tweet- and meme-friendly nicknames by prefacing his enemies with demeaning adjectives and intransitive verbs: “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz, “Little Marco” Rubio. “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, “Crazy Bernie” Sanders.
These insults were effective because they were offensive to the target. They worked because they could, under no circumstance, be interpreted as compliments.
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Trump's 'Rocket Man' insult hits the wrong note
Hurling snide nicknames to belittle critics and weaken political opponents helped propel President Donald Trump to the White House. Crooked Hillary. Little Marco. Lyin’ Ted. Low-energy Jeb. Cryin’ Chuck Schumer.
Trump’s nanny-nanny-boo-boo-style political attacks are usually a Twitter-friendly mix of catchy and demeaning.
That’s why “Rocket Man” – Trump’s nickname for North Korea’s ruler Kim Jong Un – fell so flat. Instead of insulting the despot who conducts missile tests that threaten the U.S. and its allies, Trump managed to make him sound cool.
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WTF Is a 'Dotard'? Here's How Everyone Reacted to Kim Jong-un Burning Donald Trump
A couple days later, Trump spoke at the U.N. General Assembly and had some tough words for North Korea. He also took the opportunity—on a global stage—to once again refer to Kim Jong-un, the leader of a dictatorship threatening the entire U.S. population with nuclear weapons, as "Rocket Man." There is hardly time to go into just how bizarre the entire situation is, though, because Kim Jong-un had quite the response to Trump’s nickname.
In a translated statement released on Thursday, Kim Jong-un called Trump a "mentally deranged dotard" who is "unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country." The entire statement was scathing, but most people immediately got caught up with Kim Jong-un's use of the unusual word "dotard" and wondered what in the world it meant. Twitter was ablaze with people trying to figure it out.
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Did Kim Jong Un call Donald Trump ‘dotard’ or ‘old beast lunatic’?
On Friday, web search engines the world over lit up with people looking for the obscure 14th century term “dotard”, which the Oxford Dictionary defines as “an old person, especially one who has become weak or senile”.
The reason? Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea’s regime, had used the late middle English word derived from “doten” (to dote) to refer to US President Donald Trump in a fiery speech. Kim, who was responding to Trump’s speech at the UN General Assembly in which he had threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea, used a lot of names and derogatory terms to refer to the American leader – including “mentally deranged”, “political layman” and “a gangster fond of playing with fire”.
The North Korean strongman rounded off his speech by warning to tame “the mentally deranged US dotard with fire”.
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Donald Trump Calls Kim Jong-Un ‘Rocket Man’ in Strange Tweet
President Trump’s latest 140-character missive dropped at 4:53 a.m. Sunday, with him both touting a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and making bizarre references to North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un.
“I spoke with President Moon of South Korea last night,” Trump tweeted. “Asked him how Rocket Man is doing. Long gas lines forming in North Korea. Too bad!”
The tweet is likely a reference to Jon-Un’s regime launching a ballistic missile over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Friday. The intermediate-range missile reportedly traveled for approximately 2,300 miles east before landing in the Pacific Ocean. After the launch, Jong-Un made his intentions for the test rather clear.
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'Madman' description of Kim Jong-un fits Trump, too
I started Monday morning by reading Trump's ramped up tweets to Kim Jong-un: "Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!" My reactions vacillate between sheer terror and complete disbelief that our president would ever continue to threaten this North Korean leader, who all know as a maniac with ballistic missiles that could be armed with nuclear warheads shortly.
Of course this follows his incendiary remarks of last week at the U.N., saying the U.S. could "totally destroy North Korea." And Kim Jong-un will be "tested like never before." "Fire and fury, this man is a madman playing with nukes, he is a nutjob."
Who is he describing? Himself, I fear, most accurately. Two maniacs moving us all closer to annihilation. Whatever happened to "I should invite Kim to America. I'd be honored to meet him?" Kim, one of the cruelest and most vindictive dictators alive!
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Kim Jong Un Called Trump a 'Dotard.' Here's What It Means
The Hermit Kingdom had Americans reaching for dictionaries after North Korean state media this week released a dispatch from the country's leader containing a string of threats and a curious word for U.S. President Donald Trump: dotard. "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire," Kim Jong Un said.
The original Korean statement, according to a South Korean freelance journalist, said "늙다리 미치광이" – meaning "old beast lunatic" before translation to "dotard." Entering that Korean phrase into Google Translate, meanwhile, elicits an interpretation of "an old man lunatic," and The Associated Press said "dotard" is "a translation of a Korean word, 'neukdari,' which is a derogatory reference to an old person."
Merriam-Webster Dictionary was quick to step in to provide an English definition of "dotard" for the curious: "a person in his or her dotage." "Dotage," for its part, is "a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness."
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Trump’s new nickname, ‘Rocket Man,’ for Kim Jong Un is brilliant
A wave of shock rippled through Twitter and the media after President Trump called North Korean President Kim Jong Un a "Rocket Man" in his speech before the United Nations Tuesday. "'Rocket man' made the TelePrompTer?" "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd tweeted. Another person wrote on Twitter that Trump's use of the term showed that he doesn't grasp the severity of the situation.
Oh, I think Trump knows EXACTLY what he is doing. Remember when he ran against "Lyin' Ted" Cruz and "Little Marco" Rubio in the primaries? Then, when he beat all of his GOP contenders, he ran – and won – against "Crooked Hillary" Clinton in the presidential election.
Kim Jong Un might be using missiles as his weapon of choice but when President Trump goes into battle, his weapon of choice seems to be ridicule – and a catchy nickname to make it stick. Trump first debuted the nickname "Rocket Man" on Twitter over the weekend but pulled it out again at the United Nations on Tuesday, saying in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
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‘Rocket Man’: Was that a slam of Kim Jong Un — or a compliment?
His newest nickname is a little more up for interpretation, though. Now he’s called North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un “Rocket Man” on Twitter and in a speech to world leaders at the United Nations.
The nickname seems to be a reference to Kim’s penchant for missile tests. If that’s the case, it doesn’t come off as particularly insulting.
It leaves room to be interpreted in a few different ways, largely because of the megahit song performed by Elton John, a fact that wasn’t lost on many people paying attention to Trump’s speech.
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The word “dotard” quickly started trending online, however, because he was speaking in Korean, Kim Jong Un actually said, “Neukdari,” which according to the Associated Press,[4] “It may have simply resorted to a Korean-English dictionary. Putting ‘neukdari’ into a popular online Korean-English dictionary in South Korea returns two English equivalents: an ‘aged (old) person’ and a ‘dotard.’”
Virtually all news outlets covered Kim Jong Un’s response and use of the word “dotard,” including NBC,[10] The New York Times,[11] The Los Angeles Times[12] and more. Journalist Anna Fifield was among the first people to report on the use of the word. That day, she tweeted [6] “Kim Jong Un just released a statement calling Trump a ‘mentally deranged U.S. dotard’ who will ‘pay dearly’ for his U.N. speech[…]The English version of Kim Jong Un’s fiery statement calls Trump ‘dotard.’ The Korean version says ‘늙다리미치광이’ = lunatic old man.” The two tweeted (shown below, left) received a combined more than 600 retweets and 500 likes in 16 hours.
She later tweeted[7] the definition of “dotard.” The post (shown below, right) received more than 1,600 retweets and 4,100 likes.
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Kim Jong-un brands Trump a ‘mentally deranged dotard’ in rare direct response to UN speech
US President Donald Trump is “mentally deranged” and will “pay dearly” for his threat to destroy North Korea, Kim Jong-Un said Friday, as his foreign minister hinted the regime may explode a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean.
In a rare personal attack published hours after Washington announced tougher sanctions, the North Korean leader took aim at Trump over his maiden speech to the UN General Assembly in which he branded Kim “Rocket Man” and threatened to “totally destroy North Korea”.
Trump “insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world and made the most ferocious declaration of a war in history”, Kim said, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
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With Combative Style and Epithets, Trump Takes America First to the U.N.
President Trump brought the same confrontational style of leadership he has used at home to the world’s most prominent stage on Tuesday as he vowed to “totally destroy North Korea” if it threatened the United States and denounced the nuclear agreement with Iran as “an embarrassment” that he may abandon.
In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Trump framed the conflicts as a test of the international system. The bombastic flourishes that generate approving roars at political events were met by stony silence, interrupted a few times by a smattering of applause, as Mr. Trump promised to “crush loser terrorists,” mocked North Korea’s leader as “Rocket Man” and declared that parts of the world “are going to hell.”
The president’s tone carried real-world implications for the future of the United Nations and the escalating confrontations with international outliers. In the space of 42 minutes, he upended decades of rhetorical support by the United States for the collective philosophy of the United Nations as he defended his America First policy. He repeatedly extolled “sovereignty” in a setting where the term traditionally has been brandished by nations like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea to deflect criticism.
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North Korea issue is 'different this time,' warns Singapore prime minister
Pyongyang's ongoing nuclear aggression may potentially result in South Korea and Japan hosting nuclear weapons on their own turf, a scenario that would have wide-ranging negative consequences, Singapore's leader has warned.
"What's different this time is that North Korea has more nuclear weapons ... so the risks are higher," Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in an interview with CNBC on Thursday.
To date, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has conducted six nuclear tests — the latest and largest one on Sept. 3 potentially incorporated a hydrogen bomb and caused a 6.3 magnitude earthquake — in addition to many ballistic missile launches. That's despite ongoing efforts by the international community to bring the sanction-burdened state to the negotiating table.
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According to Etymonline, “dotard” was derived in the late-14th century from the word “dote,” meaning feeble-minded from age, and the suffix “-ard,” an intensifier use as a pejorative.
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