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North Korea threatens to resume calling Trump ‘dotard’

AP

North Korea threatened Thursday to resume insults of US President Donald Trump and consider him a “dotard” if he keeps using words that provoke the North.

Choe Son Hui, the first vice foreign minister, issued the warning days after Trump spoke of a possible military option toward the North and revived his “rocket man” nickname for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The development comes as prospects dim for a resumption of nuclear diplomacy between the two countries.