North Korea: Trump is 'begging for nuclear war'

Updated 1534 GMT (2334 HKT) December 2, 2017

(CNN)US President Donald Trump and his administration are "begging for nuclear war," North Korea's Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Trump is "staging an extremely dangerous nuclear gamble on the Korean peninsula," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a written statement that also calls Trump a "nuclear demon." The comments came ahead of joint US-South Korean military drill, scheduled to begin Monday.

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