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Read Kim Jong-un's unprecedented speech in FULL as he warns he will tame 'mentally deranged' Donald Trump 'with fire'

The dictator branded Trump's UN comments a "ferocious declaration of war" and vowed to make him pay with the "highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history"

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Kim Jong-un has threatened the "highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history" against the United States in response to Donald Trump's threat to "totally destroy" North Korea.

In an unprecedented public address, the dictator branded Trump "mentally deranged" and said the US President's comments during an address to the United Nations was a "declaration of war".

Kim added that Trump's threat confirmed Pyongyang's nuclear programme has been "the correct path".

Kim Jong-Un calls Trump's UN speech "war declaration", calls him "mentally deranged(KCNA)

Here is the North Korean leader's statement in full.

The speech made by the US President in his maiden address on the UN arena in the prevailing serious circumstances, in which the situation on the Korean peninsula has been rendered tense as never before and is inching closer to a touch-and-go state, is arousing worldwide concern.

Shaping the general idea of what he would say, I expected he would make stereotyped, prepared remarks a little from what he used to utter in his office on the spur of the moment as he had to speak on the world's biggest official diplomatic stage.

But, far from making any remarks of any persuasive power that can be viewed to be helpful in diffusion tension, he made unprecedented rude nonsense no one has ever heard from any of his predecessors.

A frightened dog barks louder.