UNITED
NATIONS/BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's foreign minister said on Monday
that President Donald Trump had declared war on North Korea and that Pyongyang
reserves the right to take countermeasures, including shooting down U.S.
bombers even if they are not in its air space.
"The whole world should
clearly remember it was the U.S. who first declared war on our country,"
Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told reporters in New York.
"Since the United States
declared war on our country, we will have every right to make countermeasures,
including the right to shoot down United States strategic bombers even when
they are not inside the airspace border of our country," Ri said.
"The question of who won't
be around much longer will be answered then," Ri said in a direct
reference to a Twitter post by Trump on Saturday.
The increasingly heated rhetoric
between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is raising fears of a risk of
a miscalculation by one side or the other that could have massive
repercussions.
China called on Monday for all
sides in the North Korea missile crisis to show restraint and not "add oil
to the flames."
Ri told the U.N. General
Assembly on Saturday that targeting the U.S. mainland with its rockets was
inevitable after "Mr Evil President" Trump called Kim a "rocket
man" on a suicide mission.
"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!" Trump said on Twitter on Saturday.
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