Thus Kim, in translation: “After taking office Trump has rendered the world restless through threats and blackmail against all countries in the world. He is unfit to hold the prerogative of supreme command of a country, and he is surely a rogue and a gangster fond of playing with fire, rather than a politician. His remarks which described the U.S. option through straightforward expression of his will have convinced me, rather than frightening or stopping me, that the path I chose is correct and that it is the one I have to follow to the last.”

The statement ends with an unspecified threat from Kim Jong Un to make Trump “pay dearly” and “face results beyond his expectation.” He goes on: “I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire,” he says (thus illustrating his superior grasp of the English language – the journalist at NPR, who filed the report, had to look up the meaning of “dotard!”. But thank you NPR News).

Actually, I disagree with Kim on the dotard comment. The US President is not a dotard; he is a self-absorbed, insecure child with an emotional age of eight, or maybe ten, who sits at the back of the classroom and throws paper darts at his fellow pupils, that is, anyone who is deemed to have even the slightest idea what they are supposed to be doing.