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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 09:54 AM Nov 2017

North Korea slams 'incurably mentally deranged' Trump

Source: Times of Israel




Ahead of US president's visit to Asia, Pyongyang lashes out at the 'master of invective' who 'needs medicine for his psychical disorder'

By AFP
Today, 6:13 am

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea slammed US President Donald Trump as “incurably mentally deranged” in a personal diatribe ahead of his first visit to Asia as head of state, amid high tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions.

Trump and the North’s leader Kim Jong Un have traded threats of war and personal insults against each other in recent months, heightening worries about a potential conflict on the divided Korean peninsula.

-snip-

The US president is due in Asia at the weekend and ahead of his arrival the North’s state-run KCNA news agency lashed out at “bellicose and irresponsible rhetoric” by the “master of invective.”

“He absolutely needs medicine for curing his psychical disorder,” it said.

Read more: https://www.timesofisrael.com/north-korea-slams-incurably-mentally-deranged-trump/

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North Korea slams 'incurably mentally deranged' Trump (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2017 OP
it takes one to know one, I guess... FM123 Nov 2017 #1
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Mrs. Overall Nov 2017 #2
Tell that sawed off little shit he can't talk about Trump that way..... Bengus81 Nov 2017 #3
These two deserve each other. El Mimbreno Nov 2017 #4
Don't you know you've gone through the looking glass when... bellmartin Nov 2017 #5
Huh ... there's a Korean version of 'psychical', is there? mr_lebowski Nov 2017 #6

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
3. Tell that sawed off little shit he can't talk about Trump that way.....
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 09:59 AM
Nov 2017

Only WE can talk about Trump that way...........

bellmartin

(218 posts)
5. Don't you know you've gone through the looking glass when...
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 11:51 AM
Nov 2017

...you agree with the president of North Korea about the POTUS?

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
6. Huh ... there's a Korean version of 'psychical', is there?
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 03:07 AM
Nov 2017

The definition, to me ... is so close to being synonymous with 'psychological', I kinda find it difficult to imagine many other languages make this seemingly meaningless and random distinction between the two ...

Kinda seems like the interpreters may've just decided they didn't want to translate it as 'psychological disorder' ... for whatever reason.

Either way, I'm pretty sure ... that's the gist ...

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