US President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time) shared a throwback photograph with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, joking about their “unfriendly look” while reaffirming that the two get along well.
“Despite the unfriendly look on this particular picture, there are many where we’re smiling, Kim Jong Un and I get along GREAT!
Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Spokesperson for North Korea’s Foreign Ministry on Friday said US-Japan-South Korea military cooperation was developing into a “nuclear alliance”, Al Jazeera reported, citing Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). “The US-Japan-South Korea military cooperation is turning into a nuclear alliance, and North Korea will respond to a new level of threat with a new level of deterrent,” the spokesperson said The spokesperson further said the upcoming exercises were different from those conducted over the past five years and were intended to improve the ability to conduct warfare based on “new aspects of modern warfare”. “It is our consistent principle of ensuring security to respond to a new level of a threat with a new level of a deterrent,” the statement published by KCNA added. While Yonhap News Agency, citing the South Korean military, reported that Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Wednesday, the United States only referred to it as a “missile launch” as the US Pacific Command issued a statement shortly after the launch.
