Trump: North Korea ‘A Hell That Nobody Deserves’

US President Donald Trump has described North Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong-Un as a hell that nobody deserves.

Mr Trump was speaking on Wednesday at a press conference with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in in Seoul, as part of his tour of Asia.

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The US leader urged North Korea to “come to the table” and discuss giving up its nuclear weapons, in what he called “a path towards a much better future”.

He is on a five-nation tour of Asia, where North Korea’s nuclear ambitions have been high on his agenda.

“The weapons you are acquiring are not making you safer,” Trump said, in what he described as a direct message for Kim.

“They are putting your regime in great danger,” he added. “Every step you take down this dark path increases the peril you face.”

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Trump denounced Pyongyang as a “cruel dictatorship” and told Kim, who is the third generation in the country’s ruling dynasty, that: “North Korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned. It is a hell that no person deserves.”

He continued: “Despite every crime you have committed against god and man, we will offer a path towards a much better future.

“It would have to start, though, with North Korea stopping its development of ballistic missiles and complete verifiable and total denuclearization,” Trump added.

The two leaders also called on China and Russia to put pressure on Pyongyang, and said they were lifting the limit on South Korean missile payloads.

Mr Trump also said that South Korea would be ordering “billions of dollars” in military equipment from the US, which he said would reduce their trade deficit.

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