NORTH KOREA THREATENED TO DESTROY NEW YORK WITH NUCLEAR MISSILES BECAUSE OF TRUMP'S TWITTER FINGERS

http://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-attack-new-york-nuclear-missile-claim-624662

North Korea has responded harshly, albeit late, to a comment tweeted by President Donald Trump early this year by threatening the Republican leader's hometown of New York City.

North Korea's state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper ran an article last week referencing a Twitter remark made weeks before Trump took office in January. At the time, Trump said North Korea's plan to develop a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the U.S. "won't happen." Since then, Trump has deployed extensive naval firepower to the region to try to prevent North Korea from pursuing a sixth nuclear weapons test, sparking a recent period of heightened tensions in the Asia-Pacific.

"Trump blustered early this year that the DPRK’s final access to a nuclear weapon that can reach the U.S. mainland will never happen," the article read, according to Foreign Policy, using an acronym for the country's official name: the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. "But the strategic weapons tests conducted by the DPRK clearly proved that the time of its ICBM test is not a long way off at all."

"The DPRK is about 10,400 km (6,462.26 miles) far away from New York. But this is just not a long distance for its strike today," the paper added.

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